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Hi all,

My father wants to move his company data off-site to a cloud solution. Back up, shared folders etc.

I told him to just buy a monthly package from Dropbox, but he doesn't want to mingle into the technical stuff. Asked if I can't sign up with my company and resell it to him and manage the technical end as well. ( Thinking of just signing up with dropbox and let them bill me and invoice my dad )

What options are there and who do you all suggest?

Thanks
 
Can't seem to select specific folders to back up

Need something to work similar to onedrive and dropbox
 
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Have a look at pcloud. Euro based servers with all the privacy stuff that comes with it, if that is important to you.

I like that you can buy space with a once off payment.

For me it works very much like Dropbox and just as well. Better than Google Drive's for me.
 
Chingha said:
Have a look at pcloud. Euro based servers with all the privacy stuff that comes with it, if that is important to you.

I like that you can buy space with a once off payment.

For me it works very much like Dropbox and just as well. Better than Google Drive's for me.
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This. Also love that you can access the drive in My Computer under P:. Will support them more in the future once my family plan is paid for.
 
djbrendan said:
Can't seem to select specific folders to back up

Need something to work similar to onedrive and dropbox
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It backs up all drives on the PC. From there you can look within the folders
 
Azure Storage.

Cheap.

Hot, cold and archive storage

AZCopy is blistering fast.

Local, regional or global redundancy.

Backup vaults for full device management with dedupe, etc.
 
djbrendan said:
Hi all,

My father wants to move his company data off-site to a cloud solution. Back up, shared folders etc.

I told him to just buy a monthly package from Dropbox, but he doesn't want to mingle into the technical stuff. Asked if I can't sign up with my company and resell it to him and manage the technical end as well. ( Thinking of just signing up with dropbox and let them bill me and invoice my dad )

What options are there and who do you all suggest?

Thanks
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It is impossible to properly recommend anything without knowing how much data we're talking about.

A few terabytes is very different from a few dozen terabytes or more.

For people who don't have much data (<10TB), you're very, very unlikely to find a better solution than Dropbox. There's a reason it is so popular despite offering (for the most part) only storage. It has the best apps, the best hotlinking, the best API, the best integrations, the best WeTransfer-like facility and is a joy to use. Teams enjoy unlimited storage, and can also use Dropbox Paper to boost their productivity.
 
Bryn said:
It is impossible to properly recommend anything without knowing how much data we're talking about.

A few terabytes is very different from a few dozen terabytes or more.

For people who don't have much data (<10TB), you're very, very unlikely to find a better solution than Dropbox. There's a reason it is so popular despite offering (for the most part) only storage. It has the best apps, the best hotlinking, the best API, the best integrations, the best WeTransfer-like facility and is a joy to use. Teams enjoy unlimited storage, and can also use Dropbox Paper to boost their productivity.
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My only "gripe" with it is when companies grow and get further entrenched with Microsoft down the line and then try migrate all this to OneDrive because they're paying for it already as part of an O365 suite or something.

That's a big oof moment. I wouldn't even bother at that point, they must just keep paying for Dropbox. But just something to consider early on. :)
 
Bobbin said:
My only "gripe" with it is when companies grow and get further entrenched with Microsoft down the line and then try migrate all this to OneDrive because they're paying for it already as part of an O365 suite or something.

That's a big oof moment. I wouldn't even bother at that point, they must just keep paying for Dropbox. But just something to consider early on. :)
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OneDrive is garbage for business use. I have seen companies suffer nothing but misery with it. Google Drive is perfectly usable for firms with G Suite, but OneDrive, hell no. Just ignore the storage component of Microsoft 365 and enjoy the apps and email.
 
Bryn said:
OneDrive is garbage for business use. I have seen companies suffer nothing but misery with it. Google Drive is perfectly usable for firms with G Suite, but OneDrive, hell no. Just ignore the storage component of Microsoft 365 and enjoy the apps and email.
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Well it's not my fav either, but I also know some businesses misunderstood the use case or documented limitations for it and as a result had plenty issues technically through no fault of OneDrive itself. I only say this in case anyone else is reading - Read the documentation carefully and don't try save a buck!!

Otherwise though, yes I agree 100%. Other file sharing services are better, even from an admin point of view. :)
 
Google drive
Amazon S3
Azure

In that order. Amazon S3 is in South Africa so if you need blazing fast upload and download speeds that is the one.
Google drive prices are the best, hence recommending that over Amazon S3.

Azure is an option but frankly it doesn't offer anything over Google driver or S3 so not sure why you would bother with it but some people love Microsoft so there it is.

Dropbox is just hosted on top of Amazon S3, so not really sure I would bother with it. They have nice software I guess

Other than those, any of these other small time data storage companies are just trading durability (ie data loss probability) for cost (and probably availability also but it is less of a worry than durability). Up to you, but I wouldn't risk it.

Data storage is a numbers game, the bigger you are, the cheaper it costs you to store your data and the more you have can invest in quality software to keep the data safe. Because of that, small companies are cutting corners somewhere to make up a lower cost. Companies like Google & Amazon store your data in 3 different locations (with statistical modeling done with regard to danger) to reduce the probability to that of the earth getting hit by a comet. But a small company probably stores it in 1 data center. So if it burns down, or or or, you lose your data.
 
Bryn said:
OneDrive is garbage for business use. I have seen companies suffer nothing but misery with it. Google Drive is perfectly usable for firms with G Suite, but OneDrive, hell no. Just ignore the storage component of Microsoft 365 and enjoy the apps and email.
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I actually have a pretty positive experience with Onedrive for Business. I like the redirection of desktop/documents, files on demand feature and they have a 30 days daily backup. I haven't really used Google or Dropbox for a business use for a while so won't criticise those options.

In terms of the MS products:
Onedrive for Business == Desktop/Documents
Sharepoint == fileserver
Offsite Server backups/Archive storage can go to Azure.

A Team in MS Teams is backed by a Sharepoint Team Site which gives a very convenient way to collaborate on files. I use the Onedrive for Business client to mount Sharepoint locations in a similar manner to mapped drives which works nicely with Files on Demand

I would be one of the first people to spin you up a Nextcloud server but despite being passionate about Open Source, I work in an environment where the M365 product stack makes sense and has paid dividends during the requirements of the COVID situation.

For SME's on a budget, Nextcloud is a good option. There are a few programs that can back up to cloud storage -Duplicati2 can target a lot of cloud storage providers but you might want a commercial offering for servers
 
Nextcloud is brilliant

Here are two scripts that will setup everything for you, security the works

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