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Re: CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market

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Post by leipert »

pjc50 wrote: post #197

My own notes on alternative backup/sync solutions: https://github.com/pjc50/pjc50.github.io/blob/master/secure-... SyncThing+cloud storage seems most promising but I've not actually tried it yet.

Yep. I am using syncthing since around 3 years now and never had a problem, upgrades are flawlass, really not that much CPU/RAM (1. syncthing on PC -> syncthing on Synology NAS.

2. NAS -> Internal backup from 3-Disk RAID to additional 4th disk

3. I am thinking about additionally uploading it to Amazon Glacier or Backblaze

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Post by geostyx »

brianwski wrote: post #209
balladeer wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After we are done talking about Backblaze as a snappy app (yes, it has always been many times faster than CrashPlan), cleaner and simpler interface (no doubt here), a lot faster speed (this has been my experience and seems to be the case with a lot of people), it really isn't much good as a backup service choice. I have mentioned before, I think here on HN too, the data retention policy is just too bad and their reas…

Brian from Backblaze here. > I guess it's tough luck if you are in a different country, or different continent altogether. Backblaze sends USB hard drive restores to other continents every day! Today we have one restore shipping to Finland and one to Great Britain. And to be clear, we absorb 100% of the cost: it is $189 USD deposit and we absolutely absorb 100% of the shipping cost whether it is Texas or Finland. Als…

I've done this. Cost me like $15 to get all my data back in 2 days :D

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Post by turc1656 »

I chose pCloud as my provider of choice. It's not unlimited, but it's $10/mo for 2 TB of storage and 2 TB of traffic. That is more than enough for most users, and you can increase the size in 2 TB increments at additional cost. pCloud has pretty much all the bells and whistles one would need. I certainly consider it rich in features. I also like that it can be used as a sync storage or just as a "hard drive in the cloud" where I don't have to keep the data or folder structure on my machine if I don't want to.

The only downside is that the integrated encryption is an additional charge. To get around that, I decided to go with Boxcryptor, which I already had. The average user can use the free version of Boxcryptor. It is awesome and I highly recommend it. Both pCloud and Boxcryptor show up as physical drives on your computer, which I find convenient. So I have my primary source drive synced with the Boxcryptor drive/location and Boxcryptor is set up on my machine to encrypt the data on the fly as it is copied (surprisingly, this is not the default setting). Then, I have a separate process that syncs the raw Boxcryptor directory where the files show in their encrypted format (the "drive" version shows them unencrypted because everything is done on the fly both ways) to my pCloud storage. In the end, I have 3 versions - the unencrypted source, the encrypted Boxcryptor copy, and the pCloud backup which contains the encrypted copy.

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Post by brianwski »

berdario wrote: post #204

I got a 4 year contract with Crashplan (expiring in 2018) and I'm also pissed by this news... I paid less than 4$ per month (the price would've been already higher if I renewed yesterday, but still acceptable) and stored around 130 GB of data (so not a lot, but it's already more than the 100GB threshold that some services use) I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoi…

Brian from Backblaze here.

> Backblaze ... none of the 3rd party integrations with B2 seems to support live watching of files

I'm not exactly sure what you are going for, but you can "preview" files through the web interface on BOTH the Backblaze online backup and also B2.

If you are specifically asking about movies, just stay tuned. The first step was allowing preview of simple images, next we want to support previewing of movies.

Also, a feature we added a week ago in Backblaze Online Backup is the ability to "Share Files" (any file in your backup) with other people. For the first release we limited the file size (just so our servers did not tip over) but we plan to support the ability to share all files less than 10 GBytes.

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Post by confounded »

berdario wrote: post #204

I got a 4 year contract with Crashplan (expiring in 2018) and I'm also pissed by this news... I paid less than 4$ per month (the price would've been already higher if I renewed yesterday, but still acceptable) and stored around 130 GB of data (so not a lot, but it's already more than the 100GB threshold that some services use) I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoi…

Can you explain what you mean by "watching", and why it's important to you?

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Post by extra88 »

berdario wrote: post #204

I got a 4 year contract with Crashplan (expiring in 2018) and I'm also pissed by this news... I paid less than 4$ per month (the price would've been already higher if I renewed yesterday, but still acceptable) and stored around 130 GB of data (so not a lot, but it's already more than the 100GB threshold that some services use) I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoi…

Just googling "inotify linux backup," I found my way to this post about inotify not being recursive [0], doesn't that limit its usefulness for triggering backups of an entire drive?

For Linux and the relatively small amount of storage you require, you're very likely going to be looking for client software independent of backup storage medium, not a service that provides a client. 130GB would be about $3/month on AWS S3.

[0] https://www.quora.com/Linux-Kernel/Inotify-monitoring-of-dir...

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Post by eli »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #177
freehunter wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I have about 4 Terabytes. That's the totality of two decades of collecting music, video, pictures, ROMS, game ISOs, etc. Good lord. And you need to back this all up in the cloud?

If you had a lossless rip of a rare album that is not on iTunes, not on Amazon, not on Google Play Music, and cannot be found via torrents, wouldn't you want a backup of it in the cloud as well?

Of course, but it might be better for everyone involved if I paid for it per GB.

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Post by chrisper »

deanclatworthy wrote: post #210
chrisper wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could try using Duplicati. It has a Web GUI. You could also just create the configs at home and then export it! You could also just invoke it from CLI.

I have looked into Duplicati, but I'm not so keen on running an SSH server on my machine and/or SFTP in order to let others back up to it. A lot of extra admin work would be involved in protecting that set up and creating the necessary port-forwards and firewalls. Whereas crashplan just works. I'm certainly not going to go through the steps of setting up CLI tasks on my families machine members either.

You can choose any kinds of destinations for Duplicati. Even a local place.

I personally use it with Google Drive.

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Post by gmancruthers »

berdario wrote: post #204

I got a 4 year contract with Crashplan (expiring in 2018) and I'm also pissed by this news... I paid less than 4$ per month (the price would've been already higher if I renewed yesterday, but still acceptable) and stored around 130 GB of data (so not a lot, but it's already more than the 100GB threshold that some services use) I need something that would keep watch on all the files on the system (see inotify) to avoi…

I'm also a Crashplan user. Don't have great suggestions, but in terms of Google Drive on Linux, Insync (https://www.insynchq.com/) seems to work well enough.

Wish Google would just release the Linux client they use internally.

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Post by geostyx »

brianwski wrote: post #201
SpikeDad wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thi is a nice ego boost for you but I wish you had answered some of the questions that folks have posted. What good is a backup tool if you a) can't restore using the native tool and b) you can't restore files from more than 30 days.

> What good is a backup tool if you a) can't restore using the native tool I am so confused by your question? With Backblaze, you can get 100% of you data back in two ways: 1) you can get a free external USB hard drive sent to you with all your data on it, or 2) You can prepare a free ZIP file with all your data and download it. We provide a restartable native bzdownloader to help you download the recovered files. >…

Wait, if I delete a file you will keep the latest version forever?
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