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Hi,

Anyone use this company to backup home personal data? Are they good or do you have a better alternative for that price?
 
Used by a colleague at work, he is very happy with the service. Just be warned, it consumes a lot of bandwidth
 
Sandman1 said:
Hi,

Anyone use this company to backup home personal data? Are they good or do you have a better alternative for that price?
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It's total crap. I got 6 months with them with a Humble Bundle and the upload speeds were appalling. Never faster than 15Mbps, and their support confirmed that upload speeds for backups are not the same as their regular cloud drive facility. So basically unusable as it would take months to backup several TB even if you're uploading 24/7. I also assume it means download speeds suck too, which would be great if you were desperately trying to restore your system after a theft or something.
 
Dark Agent said:
iDrive has a Special currently:
$6.95 for the entire year for 2TB!
https://www.idrive.com/idrive/signup/el/get90
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I'm getting spam bs when I open that link on mobile. Also, what happens after that year? Then you've got to pay normal rates for 2TB of storage with a random provider that no one else uses? Also a problem for day to day use as sharing doesn't help if no one uses iDrive.
 
Bryn said:
I'm getting spam bs when I open that link on mobile. Also, what happens after that year? Then you've got to pay normal rates for 2TB of storage with a random provider that no one else uses? Also a problem for day to day use as sharing doesn't help if no one uses iDrive.
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IDrive is quite reputable. For Price it worth it. My renewals are 50% off which is $35. $6.95 dollar for the entire year(R8 per month) is a steal and offer a service similar to spideroak.

Not sure what spam you talking about. They allow sharing but not really meant for sharing but for personal backup. I used them with personal encryption and works great.
 
I used to use Crashplan until they decided a couple of weeks ago to stop offering services to home customers.

Currently trying out BackBlaze with the 15 day trial, but yes, upload speeds seems very poor (even with 100/50 Mbps fibre).

After 7 days I have apparently only uploaded between 10 - 20 MB?

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One serious requirement I have for each and every service like this is that backups should only occur during my off-peak data times when I have 1TB available -- I don't want the service to just go nuts and upload any time of day.

The other thing that kinda irritates me about Backblaze is that yes, they basically just pick EVERYTHING on your system to back up (except system files and temporary type files). The pain I have with this is that I can't prioritize things to go first. I have documents that I want to make sure gets backed up from the start, but now it chose my random "stuff I downloaded from the internet and can likely find again" folder. Sure, if it was really fast then in a couple of days my important stuff would get uploaded, but now it doesn't seem as it it ever would.

So would probably cancel after the trial.
 
ebendl said:
I used to use Crashplan until they decided a couple of weeks ago to stop offering services to home customers.

Currently trying out BackBlaze with the 15 day trial, but yes, upload speeds seems very poor (even with 100/50 Mbps fibre).

After 7 days I have apparently only uploaded between 10 - 20 MB?

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One serious requirement I have for each and every service like this is that backups should only occur during my off-peak data times when I have 1TB available -- I don't want the service to just go nuts and upload any time of day.

The other thing that kinda irritates me about Backblaze is that yes, they basically just pick EVERYTHING on your system to back up (except system files and temporary type files). The pain I have with this is that I can't prioritize things to go first. I have documents that I want to make sure gets backed up from the start, but now it chose my random "stuff I downloaded from the internet and can likely find again" folder. Sure, if it was really fast then in a couple of days my important stuff would get uploaded, but now it doesn't seem as it it ever would.

So would probably cancel after the trial.
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Well you can choose exactly which folders get backed up, and you can configure time periods for uploading. At the time of my 6 month subscription I was with Crystal Web and uncapped until 6pm every day. Setting backups to run until 6pm and start again at midnight was very easy. To get the max 15Mbps speed I had to max out the threads in the settings.

But yeah, that means nothing with such a pathetic upload speed.
 
Bryn said:
Well you can choose exactly which folders get backed up, and you can configure time periods for uploading. At the time of my 6 month subscription I was with Crystal Web and uncapped until 6pm every day. Setting backups to run until 6pm and start again at midnight was very easy. To get the max 15Mbps speed I had to max out the threads in the settings.

But yeah, that means nothing with such a pathetic upload speed.
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From what I could see I could basically indicate which folders NOT to upload. Meaning I will have to select basically everything else to kinda prioritize my more important stuff.

I did set up the midnight-6 setting.

Boy, 15 Mbps is slow... Crashplan didn't give me 50 but I saw some movement at least and managed to backup +- 600GB eventually.
 
OK, I'm looking into iDrive now.

Main concern is the 2TB limit but the price is a steal. I also like the fact that you can use multiple PCs.

So do you get full upload speed, Dark Agent? Can I limit it to midnight-6AM?
 
Seems iDrive is a good option,

Does it work like Google drive where you can upload files to a certain folder? Or does it only choose folders and files located on windows? I need to backup files from a secondary drive to the cloud and I don't always want to keep the drive switched on after the backup.
 
ebendl said:
OK, I'm looking into iDrive now.

Main concern is the 2TB limit but the price is a steal. I also like the fact that you can use multiple PCs.

So do you get full upload speed, Dark Agent? Can I limit it to midnight-6AM?
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It has a scheduler, speed are decent. On 50/50 line I get 3.8MB/s upload and 5.3MB/s download.
Not meant for sharing through. But the price is cheap also after the special its $35 per year(50% renewal offer every year). If you don't like it, the investment is small for the first year.

2TB Backup and 2TB Sync = 4TB.
 
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Bryn said:
It's total crap. I got 6 months with them with a Humble Bundle and the upload speeds were appalling. Never faster than 15Mbps, and their support confirmed that upload speeds for backups are not the same as their regular cloud drive facility. So basically unusable as it would take months to backup several TB even if you're uploading 24/7. I also assume it means download speeds suck too, which would be great if you were desperately trying to restore your system after a theft or something.
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Do you really have several terabytes of unique personal data?

And if that truly is the case why not just use their Cloud storage then instead?
 
Sandman1 said:
Seems iDrive is a good option,

Does it work like Google drive where you can upload files to a certain folder? Or does it only choose folders and files located on windows? I need to backup files from a secondary drive to the cloud and I don't always want to keep the drive switched on after the backup.
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Not sure, I set my location to G:/backups. I never try multiple locations. There offer 5GB free also.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Do you really have several terabytes of unique personal data?

And if that truly is the case why not just use their Cloud storage then instead?
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Yeah, around 4-6TB of stuff I'd like to have backed up online. For now I stick to external hard drives, but it's not great peace of mind. Not paying Backblaze for any storage option when I have no faith in their service anymore.

For regular documents, 100GB Google Drive for R29pm suits me just fine. The free unlimited Google Photos storage is a life saver.
 
Bryn said:
Yeah, around 4-6TB of stuff I'd like to have backed up online. For now I stick to external hard drives, but it's not great peace of mind. Not paying Backblaze for any storage option when I have no faith in their service anymore.

For regular documents, 100GB Google Drive for R29pm suits me just fine. The free unlimited Google Photos storage is a life saver.
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I also pay the small fee for the 100GB drive. I don't like Google Photos though, the fact that you have to store you photos unencrypted bugs me - they probably use those photos to train their face detection AI.
 
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