Vox Telecom cloud backup service.

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bigboy529

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Hi all
Are there anyone using Vox Telecom's cloud backup service? I see it's R62 per month or R720 per year for a TB of storage, any feedback?
I looked at international options as well like Crashplan, but the big advantage with the Vox one is that you can send your initial backup to them on a hard drive, otherwise the initial backup will take days if not weeks with my 4 MB ADSL line.
I have other cloud storage as well, around 10 GB Dropbox, a few GB Google drive, 50 GB iCloud and I think a TB Microsoft One drive, but I feel they are not really for mass backup, I need a place to backup all my stuff.
Do you know of any other local offerings for this type thing?

P.S. If it's not off site, it's not backed up.
 
I am also in the market to backup to the cloud. I am currently paying google for storage but find their lack of ubuntu integration very annoying.

Had a look at vox and it seems like some java app.

I am also looking at Mega since they have 50GB free and plugins for Nautilus

I would love to have ssh interface to my cloud/files.
 
I'm actually giving Crashplan a rethink, even if it takes me weeks to upload my initial backup. Unless a friendly person with fast uncapped fiber is willing to let me come setup my Mac at their place for a day or 3 ;D
 
Good to see someone local is offering this. Especially cool that they'll upload from a HDD. I'm using Google Drive and paying R145 a month for 1TB. Only using 160GB so far (and it took months and months to upload). Just wish Google offered 100GB increments in their plans. The jump from 100Gb for $2 to 1TB for $10 is just too much.

I'm curious how Vox would handle your data should their business model collapse? Kinda feeling safe with Google because they're so big.
 
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Beylie said:
Good to see someone local is offering this. Especially cool that they'll upload from a HDD. I'm using Google Drive and paying R145 a month for 1TB. Only using 160GB so far (and it took months and months to upload). Just wish Google offered 100GB increments in their plans. The jump from 100Gb for $2 to 1TB for $10 is just too much.
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This option is more aimed at the tech savvy but you pay per usage and is pretty cheap, https://cloud.google.com/storage/ it also does not have fancy web interfaces where you can share and view your files but you can store huge amounts.
 
Thanks for this ^, very interesting. It's incredibly cheap a 1c (US) per GB if the data is at rest. But like you said, not super user friendly. Thanks, will be reading up a bit.
 
In the end I decided to go with Crashplan even though it will take weeks to upload everything over my 4 MB line. I signed up for the 30 day trial a week or 3 ago and my upload has been running 24/7 for just over 2 weeks now, it uploaded 28.8 GB so far. Yesterday I actually baught a year subscription for $50, so I'm all in now. I'm going away on holiday in a week or so's time so uploading will take a break probably till January, at this rate uploading 40 - 50 GB per month should be possible, I'm doing my most crytical stuff first.
 
bigboy529 said:
In the end I decided to go with Crashplan even though it will take weeks to upload everything over my 4 MB line. I signed up for the 30 day trial a week or 3 ago and my upload has been running 24/7 for just over 2 weeks now, it uploaded 28.8 GB so far. Yesterday I actually baught a year subscription for $50, so I'm all in now. I'm going away on holiday in a week or so's time so uploading will take a break probably till January, at this rate uploading 40 - 50 GB per month should be possible, I'm doing my most crytical stuff first.
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I would have rather just bought a 4TB external hard drive and backed up my important stuff. I have a 10Mbit connection and the upload is way too crap to back up my PC, so I don't know how you get by with 4Mbit.

Fortunately my area supports Telkom FTTH since a day or two ago. Signing up tomorrow hopefully. On the 100Mbps line, upload should be somewhere around 3MB/s. That's 10.8GB an hour - much more manageable for backing up my entire PC online.
 
Bryn said:
I would have rather just bought a 4TB external hard drive and backed up my important stuff. I have a 10Mbit connection and the upload is way too crap to back up my PC, so I don't know how you get by with 4Mbit.

Fortunately my area supports Telkom FTTH since a day or two ago. Signing up tomorrow hopefully. On the 100Mbps line, upload should be somewhere around 3MB/s. That's 10.8GB an hour - much more manageable for backing up my entire PC online.
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I already have a few externals with backups locked away in my safe, but I want a extra off site backup as well, the slow upload is quite frustrating, but once the initial upload is done it would be smooth going.
 
They seem very expensive. I pay R160 for 1TB Google Drive, for R199 ex vat, these guys give you 100GB's.But they do offer that couriered drive option.
 
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