Just wondering if you guys have any good service providers for an unlimited cloud backup service. This is different to say Dropbox or Onedrive, I don't need constant access to it, I will use it more as a cloud backup archival storage for my pictures and other files.
I've been looking into Backblaze, they have a personal plan for $US6 a month, that's not bad. Are there any other alternatives. Is Backblaze any good?
Thanks in advance.
G suite is for a business right? How much is it?
$16.80 per user on the business license, and you'd just have one (yourself).
Here:
Drive Unlimited cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users).
That limit isn't reinforced, but it always could be. But this does the trick.
On the Google website, it says:
Unlimited cloud storage (or 1TB per user if fewer than 5 users)
That suggests I need to pay for 5 users ($16.80 x 5 = $82.50) per month before I get unlimited cloud storage, otherwise its only 1TB per user.
@techlead: Nah, so they don't enforce that limit.
You can just have one user (yourself) and still have unlimited usage.
But they could turn around and turn that off, but as it's been like that for years.
@techlead: It's awesome. One day we'll all be swearing bloody murder when they take it away / enforce the user limit.
Backblaze B2. Cheap as chips. I store about 200gb of photos as offsite storage, costs about $1 per month. New photos are uploaded daily and retrieval is only in an emergency.
Files encrypted by rclone before uploading.
Saw that, its shortlisted at the moment. I'm mainly going to use it for pictures and videos, that's the vast majority of my files.
I use it solely for this purpose - videos and photos from phones.
I use Backblaze B2 Cloud storage because it's encrypted, works with Synology and if you lose everything, they can send your data on a disk by courier.
They charge for storage, downloads and transactions. Data storage $0.005/GB/Month (USD) and USB Hard Drive (up to 8TB of data) $189 (USD) by FedEx.
I've done some research, these are the cons of backblaze which I can find, not sure if they have fixed it.
Have you guys experienced that?
I don't know the PC client but regarding #2, doesn't it do a full backup and after that only the changes? Once a full backup is finished it should process changes straight away. Every change in my selected Synology folder is uploaded within seconds.
Regarding #3: It's a file backup service, not disk clone software but you can upload your disk (system) image. If your system crashes, it's easier to restore the image from a local back-up disk or USB key. In case of a major disaster, the computer the disk image belongs to might be gone as well so the off-side disk image is useless. In that case, you have to get a new PC and install Windows (system disk) anyway.
Makes sense. I have started a 15 day trial with backblaze, it seems they are the best priced and has the most customers. I have around 5TB of files, mostly photos and videos, but I expect it to grow.
There are more downsides then that.
If your hard drive fails, you only have a limited time to restore your files before its removed from the cloud backup. This is a problem if you have 10TB backed up, why?
Backblaze has slow USA servers and a horrible windows program that doesn't work well with large backups.
on #3, you can actually do this if you save the .bzvol folder on the drives that you are creating a backup of. I have done this many times, and there was never an issue inheriting that backup - e.g. when you experience a crash, or upgrade your drive size.
I use Wasabi and have been pretty happy for NAS and PC backup at about 5 bucks a month.
BackBlaze does look interesting though
I have 4TB in Backblaze B2. It's brilliant, and I've not found cheaper.
I use GoodSync to compare the files between my NAS storage devices and my B2 containers and then just upload the changes. Goodsync natively supports Backblaze.
4TB costs me $32 AUD a month. Can't recommend it highly enough. I was using S3 prior to this and the cost was outrageous.
Their guys are also very active on the backblaze subreddit if you ever need help.
What's your config? Do you run good sync on each Nas itself or on a server with access to them all?
I have a few NAS's set up and volumes presented to my PC as separate network shares.
I run Goodsync on my main PC and have multiple jobs created in Goodsync for each of the shares. You can get as granular as you want with Goodsync and select entire drives or drill down and only a few select folders to sync for the job.
It's a great system I've got set up, I can sleep easy at night knowing everything is backed up off site and I'm safe from losing data due to fire/theft.
I still have to be careful - for example if I was attacked by a cryptolocker and just ran a sync to the cloud, I'd upload all the infected files and my backup would be useless. For this reason, I run each job in 2 stages, first the Analysis which compares the source and destination for the changes and lists them out for review. I have a quick look over that for anything out of the ordinary (thousands of files that have been encrypted on the source side would be easy to spot here).
If all looks ok, I'll hit Sync and go to bed while the changed/new files are uploaded.
You can do an Analysis/Sync in one step if you like, but I prefer to monitor the changes before they're uploaded.
Thank you, sounds like a good strategy.
You could sign up to G Suite, unenforced unlimited storage with one user p/m, but you run the risk of them cancelling that, but they haven't for years.
I have used Backblaze / Crashplan before which were good too.