Online Backups : Best method of uploading

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Want to secure my data online as it is much more reliable than the way I am doing it now where I rely on only hard drives, which is all good and well but if I have a theft, around 3 months data will be gone (I have offsite backups at my parents).

Thinking of going with Crashplan for either $5/m or $10/m and have around 100GB I would like to back up. Currently have a 2Mbps line with 512 kbits upload, this will mean at full throttle uploads, it will take 20 days and for those 20 days my ADSL will be FOBAR. Going to 10Mbps will only speed it up to 10 days.

Question is, is there any faster or better method of uploading your huge data collection online (Other than flying oversees :) )
 
Are you only talking connectivity or software as well?

If cost isn't an option then consider 3G or Wimax or Fibre.
You could buy a 8ta 60GB+60GB deal and as long as you have good coverage then you can theoretically upload faster than adsl.
Neotel Wimax also offers faster upload speeds. 3Mbps on fastest connection if I remember correctly.
Neotel Fibre can give you up to 15Mbps but its expensive.
 
My question is WTF are you backing up that's so important? Or are you just one of those who can't do without your emails from back in 1997 when you still had hotmail and you're really paranoid about it?

If you *really* want, then get proper tapes, get a company who comes fetches them and securely stores them offsite. Unless you have access to some super fast DSL (synchronous), which you don't, I don't think it would be viable for you to backup online.
 
Fcon_Vpro said:
Are you only talking connectivity or software as well?

If cost isn't an option then consider 3G or Wimax or Fibre.
You could buy a 8ta 60GB+60GB deal and as long as you have good coverage then you can theoretically upload faster than adsl.
Neotel Wimax also offers faster upload speeds. 3Mbps on fastest connection if I remember correctly.
Neotel Fibre can give you up to 15Mbps but its expensive.
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They might advertise the upload speeds being higher but it rarely is. Especially with wireless connections
 
AcidRaZor said:
They might advertise the upload speeds being higher but it rarely is. Especially with wireless connections
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All dependant on your coverage. At my office MTN and CellC are strong and I get about 1.5Mbps on CellC and close to 2Mbps on MTN.
Cant comment on WiMax speeds though.
 
Why Crashplan? Why not Dropbox (my favourite), Google Drive, Box or MS Skydrive? They all offer a fair amount free to start with, and are all around the $5 / month mark for 100Gb. Most of them have excellent tools making it easy to upload or share files, including tools for iOS and Android to make uploading attachments, photos, etc. a breeze.

I also won't push to just have it all uploaded in one go as soon as possible, start with the most important and do it in stages. It's not like you NEED it uploaded right now since you seem to have backups already.
 
The_Other_Guy said:
Why Crashplan? Why not Dropbox (my favourite), Google Drive, Box or MS Skydrive? They all offer a fair amount free to start with, and are all around the $5 / month mark for 100Gb. Most of them have excellent tools making it easy to upload or share files, including tools for iOS and Android to make uploading attachments, photos, etc. a breeze.

I also won't push to just have it all uploaded in one go as soon as possible, start with the most important and do it in stages. It's not like you NEED it uploaded right now since you seem to have backups already.
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Well, considering he says he will be backing up constantly for 20 days on with 512kbps upload (I estimated 50kb/s constant upload which is very optimistic at best), his data he wants to backup is close to 85gb

@ the bolded statement. That's why I asked what's so important for him to be backed up. He keeps OFFSITE copies of his data at his parents house... so if the data changes so much and is so important, then why not go with a proper solution?

If it were a bunch of photos that don't change much (family photos/events etc) I'd say "Ok, dropbox, upload over time". But offsite backups at parents'houses etc.... what kind of data is this? 85gb big and super important?
 
Hi There,
Upload the fixed stuff that will not change such as photos to the web. Plenty of options there that will work and some of them free.
For the volatile or changing data such as your .pst files I would backup to a removable device using backup at a time of day when you are not active e.g 3 in the morning. Then take the removable device and store it somewhere else.

To make it easier to do you may want to look at the file structure so that any volatile files that you are working on are in one particular directory and you then just need to back that up.

Remember though that doing a backup is only about 25% of what needs to be done. The other 75% is getting it all back again so to ensure it works you need to test restoring it.

Regards

Tim

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Hard drives are prone to failure and you never quite sure you have backed up correctly. I have a legal music collection, that now does not change, that is rather large and I have changed and sorted the music quite extensively and do not want to go through the task of re downloading it from iTunes and Nokia Music.

Re, Google, Tried that and it changed all my timestamps which fouled up my offline backup program.

Re the size, it is the time of not throwing things away, so Photos from 10 years ago I would like backed up online, safe, secure and extremely small chance of loosing your data.

The nice features with Crash plan, is I can integrate it to my home backups, so I will have my copies on my laptop, home NAS and online all with one solution and you have the option of storing all your versions, so if you delete something with finger trouble, it will still be there and the $5 plan is unlimited space for 1 person.

Will try as "The Other Guy" mentions and do it in stages, Extremely important docs, then photos then music. Might take a few months to get it all online though.
 
I setup a bookshop to use Google Drive to back up their data. They only backup the Excel files, Word stuff and catalogues. The pictures would have been too big to backup realistically since they run to 21Gb, so these are stored on a portable hard drive stored in a separate building. Their daily "sync" with Google Drive takes about 10 mins and works well, since it is only incremental

They pay about $30 a month for this service
 
Hard drives are prone to failure yes because of moving parts. Not SSD's. Not tapes.

:rolleyes:
 
Necro...I know...

but any new info/services or updated opinions?

Wanting to backup about 100Gb of photos, tried Amazon Glazier a while back, but uploads were extremely slow. Looking for something reliable -

1) either local for faster uploads or
2) ability to email HDD in for initial upload, has anyone done that?
 
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