Posted April 13, 2017 Hello, first time posting here! I was wondering what the most cost effective way and how to set a remote back up for two small businesses that I own. I have two businesses that have a lot of files of customers we deal with that I would like a physical back up copy at my house. The bulk of the files are Microsoft word document, quickbooks, pictures, and a few Photoshop files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have little to none experience with NAS or servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 I would recommend against backing files up to your private home server. Home networks aren't designed with enterprise security in mind, and you wouldn't want to risk customers data. Instead, look into cloud services like crashplan. ******If you paste in text into your post, please click the "remove formatting" button for night theme users.****** CPU- Intel 6700k OC to 4.69 Ghz GPU- NVidia Geforce GTX 970 (MSI) RAM- 16gb DDR4 2400 SSD-2x500gb samsung 850 EVO(SATA) Raid 0 HDD- 2tb Seagate Case- H440 Red w/ custom lighting Motherboard - MSI Z170 Gaming A OS- Windows 10 Mouse- Razer Naga Epic Chroma, Final Mouse 2016 turney proKeyboard- Corsair k70 Cherry MX brown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 22 minutes ago, Smkin71 said: Hello, first time posting here! I was wondering what the most cost effective way and how to set a remote back up for two small businesses that I own. I have two businesses that have a lot of files of customers we deal with that I would like a physical back up copy at my house. The bulk of the files are Microsoft word document, quickbooks, pictures, and a few Photoshop files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have little to none experience with NAS or servers. I use Backblaze for my business backups. Its simple to install, cheap, and if you want all the data back at once they will send you a USB or an external HDD with all of it on. You can then pay a bit to keep those devices, or send them back once you have restored your data. You can also restore data manually from their web interface. However our backups run in 10's of TB's so pulling a full restore over the internet isnt viable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 Look at something like amazon S3 storage, OneDrive, Dropbox etc and sync there. Unless you have a decent amount of storage to spare. If you own both businesses, could you store the other businesses data giving you offsite backup? System/Server Administrator - Networking - Storage - Virtualization - Scripting - Applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 44 minutes ago, mrzoltowski said: I use Backblaze for my business backups. Its simple to install, cheap, and if you want all the data back at once they will send you a USB or an external HDD with all of it on. You can then pay a bit to keep those devices, or send them back once you have restored your data. You can also restore data manually from their web interface. However our backups run in 10's of TB's so pulling a full restore over the internet isnt viable. I would agree with this. unless you have/are a very good technician, backups are probably not something you want to risk. Also having to deal with things like encryption for data security is probably too "expensive" in time. when looking at backup solutions, do not forget to outline your recovery strategy. Sometimes people will have backups, but no way to get them back to where the business can use them quickly. Backblaze is probably the cheapest and simplest with their Business plans $5 per TB per month. In what Region is you business's located? Backblaze only tends to perform well in the US and Canada. Go do a Backblaze speedtest to see what you can practically backup to them https://www.backblaze.com/speedtest/ (use browser with flash) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 6 minutes ago, SapphironZA said: I would agree with this. unless you have/are a very good technician, backups are probably not something you want to risk. Also having to deal with things like encryption for data security is probably too "expensive" in time. when looking at backup solutions, do not forget to outline your recovery strategy. Sometimes people will have backups, but no way to get them back to where the business can use them quickly. Backblaze is probably the cheapest and simplest with their Business plans $5 per TB per month. In what Region is you business's located? Backblaze only tends to perform well in the US and Canada. Go do a Backblaze speedtest to see what you can practically backup to them https://www.backblaze.com/speedtest/ (use browser with flash) Just FYI, I'm in the UK and its fast enough, and backups can be shipped out and delivered to me within 24-48 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 13, 2017 8 minutes ago, mrzoltowski said: Just FYI, I'm in the UK and its fast enough, and backups can be shipped out and delivered to me within 24-48 hours. thanks for the feedback. I have tried it from South Africa and New Zealand Can only get about 12-14Mbit, even on 100Mbit fibre connections. Our Speed to UK/EU is usually good, but USA is very poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted April 14, 2017 Author Thank you very much, I think I'll sign up for BackBlaze! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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