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I used to use Crashplan which had unlimited storage and was fairly cheap(like 4$/month or something) for a family plan. You might want to check it out. https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/features/ Also it was one of the few services that had a client that worked on Linux
Here are some options that I have experience with: - Time Machine with offline disks: Since Time Machine supports multiple backup destinations, you can use a Time Capsule or hard drive that's always connected to your Mac, and also have one or more additional hard drives which you connect periodically and otherwise leave in a drawer. Pros: Free, built into macOS, can browse file versions directly from many apps. Cons:…
I quite like Crashplan: - very reasonably priced: I pay around £10 pcm for unltd storage for my whole family - zero-knowledge encryption: I have the encryption keys, and everything is encrypted on my machine before its sent up - relatively low bandwidth: only ships changed files (pretty standard tbh) It's saved my bacon a few times, e.g. I've used it to rescue my sister's dissertation when she wiped her laptop thinki…
I used crash plan on Linux for years, but stopped because their Java client is a train wreck. It would consume gigabytes of RAM and every year or so it'd meltdown when trying to install an update without using the system package manager.
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I have had to restore a backup once, so I restored the most recent version, which was restoring an old version of the file. I ended up frantically restoring all the different versions of the backups, and one of them was the most recent version. But it was considered an old version by Arq, I'm not sure precisely which one, but it definitely wasn't in the top 3 most recent ones. And more recently I made a backup to gla…
Crashplan worked well for me, sometimes I have to restore a file that I overwrite or that ends up being corrupted because of buggy (in-house) software and I never had any problems with that. My main issue is that I went with free plan + my own server because transfers to their servers were really bad. But to supply your own storage, you have to install Crashplan on the server, which uses significant amount of RAM. So…
Do you think Google Drive (and others) are secure enough to store personal financial data like Quicken? Sometimes all you need is an email and password to get in.
Here are some options that I have experience with: - Time Machine with offline disks: Since Time Machine supports multiple backup destinations, you can use a Time Capsule or hard drive that's always connected to your Mac, and also have one or more additional hard drives which you connect periodically and otherwise leave in a drawer. Pros: Free, built into macOS, can browse file versions directly from many apps. Cons:…
An unlisted con of Backblaze is that they delete all external drives if not plugged in for at least 6 consecutive hours every 30 days. It can be a huge pain if you travel regularly or otherwise don't want to leave your computer on all night.
What sort of upload speeds do people doing cloud backups have? I could never contemplate uploading 100s of Mb each day with my crappy ADSL2+
Initial backups take a long time, no doubt. But the daily diffs aren't so bad. As long as you use something smart enough to only upload the deltas, you're fine.
You can also snail mail drives to many cloud providers for your initial backup state if you want. I've never done so, but I've heard from friends that have that it worked out fine.
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An unlisted con of Backblaze is that they delete all external drives if not plugged in for at least 6 consecutive hours every 30 days. It can be a huge pain if you travel regularly or otherwise don't want to leave your computer on all night.
Is this a new policy? Coincidentally I just restored something off a year-old backup from a dead machine's external drive, and it wasn't an issue. Maybe because the machine itself hasn't connected in a while?
Note the point about having all external drives connected for that first boot or their backups will be wiped out. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot.
https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...
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Is this a new policy? Coincidentally I just restored something off a year-old backup from a dead machine's external drive, and it wasn't an issue. Maybe because the machine itself hasn't connected in a while?
The machine not connecting at all puts it in some kind of exempt from deletion state. They claim it is a six-month limit in their docs. Note the point about having all external drives connected for that first boot or their backups will be wiped out. Very easy to shoot yourself in the foot. https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217664898-What-...
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To concur with my sibling commenter zie (who said that tarsnap is not that expensive): $ tarsnap --print-stats Total size Compressed size All archives 1418275826434 1212480481405 (unique data) 5342739088 2957847871 Ie, I have ~1.3TB of data stored in total but I am only being charged ($0.0239 US per day) for what amounts to ~2.75GB after deduplication and compression. Mind you, I have not compared tarsnap's prices to…
1.3 TB deduplicating & compressing down to 2.75 GB seems way too good to be true. Is there something weird about your data that leads to this level of compression?