I need a better backup solution

GhostSixFour said:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/cloud-backup

They say unlimited, and they bring USB device to your house for you to back up to and then they'll upload..
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Yeah - I asked about that when MyBB first ran with the story.

The biggest problem with relying on the cloud is that I need to be able to easily access, and possibly edit, the photos on short notice.
 
GhostSixFour said:
https://www.voxtelecom.co.za/cloud-backup

They say unlimited, and they bring USB device to your house for you to back up to and then they'll upload..

EDIT: I did a test upload time, on the company line @ 13.3 mbps.. 186 odd days for 20TB.
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Calculate your upload time *
Your estimated upload speed is: 1.74 Mpbs
Size of File to be uploaded: CALCULATE

Estimated Time For Upload (detected) = 1428 days 10 hours 56.67 minutes
 
bwana said:
Yeah - I asked about that when MyBB first ran with the story.

The biggest problem with relying on the cloud is that I need to be able to easily access, and possibly edit, the photos on short notice.
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Once it's backedup, you'll surely be able to pull it down and edit? Why would you need to give notice?
 
alqassam said:
Calculate your upload time *
Your estimated upload speed is: 1.74 Mpbs
Size of File to be uploaded: CALCULATE

Estimated Time For Upload (detected) = 1428 days 10 hours 56.67 minutes
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Four years.. By then you'll hopefully have FTTH :)
 
alqassam said:
Calculate your upload time *
Your estimated upload speed is: 1.74 Mpbs
Size of File to be uploaded: CALCULATE

Estimated Time For Upload (detected) = 1428 days 10 hours 56.67 minutes
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:o

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bwana said:
I'm often given short notice - by clients.
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But why would you need to give notice to pull it down? Maybe a dual layer type thing? Keep the more recent and most likely to be used stuff locally on a NAS, such as the link on carbonite, then the more obscure stuff on the Vox system?
 
Sure the setup cost of a server is costly but it's a once off expense? It can be done in portions by buying it in parts. No need to do it once off in one go. That would be the best solution I can think of. Easy access to all your files from one location and you can add more space as required.
 
bwana said:
R40k? Maybe I need to rethink backing everything up…

Converting all the raw files to JPG could potentially save a lot of space.
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I see that Vox has a plan for R720 per annum

The small print says that that is for a softcap of 999gig extendable on request - maybe you should give them a call.

They do offer the once off load option as well.

Edit: Dang, it's pricey - 649 for 500 gig
 
GhostSixFour said:
But why would you need to give notice to pull it down? Maybe a dual layer type thing? Keep the more recent and most likely to be used stuff locally on a NAS, such as the link on carbonite, then the more obscure stuff on the Vox system?
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By pull it down I mean edit it locally - not remove it permanently.
 
BTW - thanks for all the suggestions - it's going to take some time to wade through them all but it's appreciated nonetheless.
 
AfricanTech said:
Eish, looking at the options available, I don't know if there is any affordable cloud solution for 20TB of data
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Yeah - I'm going to start contacting clients and ask them how long they expect me to hang on to stuff for. I shoot 10-14 frames a second so there's often a lot of redundancy there I can eliminate.
 
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