Cloud Backup Solution.

Dairyfarmer said:
Maybe explain how you want to use the solution. i.e is it purely a backup solution or are you wanting to access the data on a regular basis and by how many users. There is a difference between archiving data and having data stored for ongoing access. If you need constant access then a local NAS would be better, faster and cheaper.
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It’s a backup solution, all the files are based on one computer.
 
basil katakuzinos said:
It’s a backup solution, all the files are based on one computer.
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I think you misunderstood.

The file you want to backup, do you need to access them on a daily basis? Also is it just one user or many users that need to access the files?

This all makes a difference. If you backup files that do not need to be accesses often, this is very different to having off site files that are constantly being worked on. Not only the speed and convenience of accessing the files, but controlling version history of the files and accountability of changes. Also, in multi user situations, there needs to be access control.

Files worked on often also need a backup even if off site. What if Bob from accounting decides to delete a file or overwrite an important doc with his shopping list? Don't laugh it happens more often than you think.

The point being that files that need to be accessed all the time would need a different solution to files that just need to be archived.
 
Dairyfarmer said:
I think you misunderstood.

The file you want to backup, do you need to access them on a daily basis? Also is it just one user or many users that need to access the files?

This all makes a difference. If you backup files that do not need to be accesses often, this is very different to having off site files that are constantly being worked on. Not only the speed and convenience of accessing the files, but controlling version history of the files and accountability of changes. Also, in multi user situations, there needs to be access control.

Files worked on often also need a backup even if off site. What if Bob from accounting decides to delete a file or overwrite an important doc with his shopping list? Don't laugh it happens more often than you think.

The point being that files that need to be accessed all the time would need a different solution to files that just need to be archived.
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No I do not need to access the files saved, i want to create a backup of files used on my computer.
 
basil katakuzinos said:
No I do not need to access the files saved, i want to create a backup of files used on my computer.
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Duplicati 2 is an open source backup program which supports a number of Storage Providers

They list it as beta but I tested it a while ago backing up my work laptop to Onedrive for Business and it worked well. I would be happy using it to back up files on my home PC or even a work device if I didn't want to spend any money.
 
Daruk said:
Dropbox advanced plan is $20 pm for unlimited storage. Otherwise purchase two physical hard drives and have an agreement with a colleague or friend where you house their off-site storage and they house yours and you use a raspberry pi for P2P file sync. Use full disk encryption to prevent theft or unauthorized access. Only to can access your files and only he can access his using a private key
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I've already got duplicate drives in different locations, what I want is an archive way way off-site. I was leaning towards Backblaze but Amazon's S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage also looks promising.
 
Aquadyne said:
You should seriously consider AWS S3 as your storage provider and then utilize Cloudberry File Explorer as your interface.

https://www.cloudberrylab.com/explorer/amazon-s3.aspx

You won't get a better price-point for your storage.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/
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Yup I use Cloudberry with Google Cloud. Works great. Using their managed backup service. Just waiting on them to support archives. $13 per month for 1TB on Google Cloud, and pay per device for the backup software.
 
Daruk said:
Definitely easier to use existing cloud services, what I'm proposing is a secure automated nightly backup off-site (mirror of an on-site drive). The advantage of using your own service is that you can avoid this:
https://gadgeteer.co.za/node/3309

It's unlikely that S3 will be shut down any time soon, but I guess it all boils down to cost per Gb if it's 'near cold storage'.
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My working plan is to move everything over to a single large drive at home, then I'll have the S3 Glacier Deep Archive Storage and finally I'll resize everything to 16mb and upload it to google to act as an index.
 
Crashplan pro.

$10 a month - unlimited capacity.
 
bwana said:
What's the difference between Crashplan pro and Backblaze, apart from an additional $4 pm?
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Crashplan installs a client on your machine and does regular incremental backups - as often as you configure it to. The $10 is per device backed up though, not sure about backblaze.
 
Daruk said:
So you can do your own central backup on Pi based NAS and use crashplan on that I guess. How easy is it to access content on Crashplan, can you do it on a per file basis and does it have a nice interface?
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Per file, there's a web interface so you can access the content from anywhere, as well as through the client.
 
bwana said:
I'm going to get myself a Rain sim, start with 2018, and work my way backwards. I should be able to get at least one year done during the initial free period after which I'll have to schedule everything from midnight to 18:00.
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It’s from 11 pm btw. You don’t really need to schedule it, just set your max spend to R250 and it will automatically not work between 6 and 11 pm, assuming the upload software will retry indefinitely.
 
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