Do you use cloud storage to back up your data?

[Jamie McKane]

Do you use a cloud storage service to back up your data? Which platform do you use?

 

[Sinbad]

Yes. CrashPlan pro.

 

[cygx1]

Never. Rather stick needles in my eyes.

 

[Purply]

Negative

 

[Binary_Bark]

Yes, specially for my phone. Keep no data on my phone, no photos nothing all is cloud storage.
Same goes for important information on the PC

 

[RedViking]

Which online service will send you a physical encrypted hard drive with your data on when it gets corrupted, stolen etc. ?

Having 2TB of data backed up over the years is one thing, trying to retrieve will be another thing.

 

[backstreetboy]

Google drive coupled with their office apps it's the best.

 

[MrGray]

We use Acronis Cloud Backup - highly recommended. Backups are encrypted, you can restore individual files as well as whole volumes and they even have a VM option so that you can spin up a backup image in the cloud in an emergency, plus the cost doesn't break the bank. I know I sound like a sales rep for them, but I'm not and it's really taken a lot of pain out of our backups and we've had completely successful restores when we've needed them. You can even build your own cloud backup on your own volumes if you don't want to use their hosted cloud.

 

[BTTB]

Use the Free MegaSync for photos, documents, invoices etc.

Also have 2 sets of external Raid 1 Harddrivess, one connected to the PC, the other in the safe.
Recently added another harddrive to the Router for basic cloud stuff for the family like movies and some photos, but not Raid 1 so cannot be trusted.

Bought a licence for Acronis, found it a resource hog for my old PC and uninstalled it, however the Acronis Images are safely stored on the HDD and can use the rescue CD to restore my operating system if needed. Found the free version of Macrium Reflect does the same thing and uses little or no resource, don't think there is a cloud option for the free version.

 

[ArtyLoop]

Yes and No

Yes- iCloud for stuff on the phone
No- local stuff is on a RAID cluster because of bandwidth issues in this country

 

[bigboy529]

Yes, iCloud Drive for all my important stuff including phone, iMac and MacBook Pro.
Used to have Crashplan as well, but when they took away their home offering I reconsidered and cancelled it since all my really important things is with iCloud drive which is anyway quite affordable these days.

 

[LCBXX]

Yes, Mega.co.nz as well as Google for photos.

 

[gregmcc]

Google and Mega with extra file encryption added.

 

[kripstoe]

Yip. Laptop and Phone.

 

[Herr_SturmGeist]

Amazon S3 as offsite backup for critical items on my NAS. Google Drive Business for everything else

 

[bwana]

No, maybe one day when/if I get fibre but that dog won't hunt with VDSL.

 

[supersunbird]

Never. Rather stick needles in my eyes.

Why?

 

[TedLasso]

1tb OneDrive as default storage . Then a crown job to keep all of it backed up to my NAS.

Google photos for photos.

 

[Dan C]

Why?

Some people stab themselves to death.

 

[HeftyCrab]

Which online service will send you a physical encrypted hard drive with your data on when it gets corrupted, stolen etc. ?

Having 2TB of data backed up over the years is one thing, trying to retrieve will be another thing.

https://www.backblaze.com/restore.html

Not sure if that Fedex is international, but its a start.