cloud backup / restore

[johnyb98]

Hi everybody!

 

Please, I would like your opinion on some free cloud backup/restore sites, with no registration. But, in order to be able to backup enough GB. Somebody suggested me wetransfer . com , but its backup limit is 2GB.

 

Thank you !

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Stay away, far away, from free cloud backup or storage sites. They are notoriously unreliable and not secure. Instead, I recommend Backblaze. It's only $5/month or $50/year for a personal plan.

 

The main downsides to cloud backups are the cost (whether that is actually a downside depends upon your budget) and the time required to upload and recover data. A broadband connection with a high data cap is also required.

 

I recommend cloud backups only as a substitute for an offsite backup drive or, even better, for supplementing conventional onsite and offsite backup drives.

[johnyb98]

Precious your information and advice.

For a customer that is in another city, what would you be you plan/steps for making the backup and later the recovery?

[Lurick]

Another option is CrashPlan Small Business. They charge by the computer but if you have a single Linux or Windows box you can backup everything to, then you can just backup that box to CrashPlan. If I remember right they offer the option to send a drive or two to you for quicker large backups and then will do the same for recovery.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 hour ago, Lurick said:

Another option is CrashPlan Small Business. They charge by the computer but if you have a single Linux or Windows box you can backup everything to, then you can just backup that box to CrashPlan. If I remember right they offer the option to send a drive or two to you for quicker large backups and then will do the same for recovery.

I tried CrashPlan small business a few months after it first came out an stuck with it for a few months before I got fed up with their unbelievable incompetence and, frankly, it was a bad joke. Uploads were often glacially slow, their software is not intuitive, updates to their software were forced on you at anytime and were sometimes buggy, often to the point of failingg or losing you data, and their tech help was more like tech helpless. I may try them again in a year but, for now stay the heck way from that unreliable bunch of morons.

[Lurick]

10 minutes ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

I tried CrashPlan small business a few months after it first came out an stuck with it for a few months before I got fed up with their unbelievable incompetence and, frankly, it was a bad joke. Uploads were often glacially slow, their software is not intuitive, updates to their software were forced on you at anytime and were sometimes buggy, often to the point of failingg or losing you data, and their tech help was more like tech helpless. I may try them again in a year but, for now stay the heck way from that unreliable bunch of morons.

Yah, I've got gigabit upload and I noticed their client not pushing more than 50Mbps despite the client have the resources to do much more. The main things keeping me with them is linux client support and that I can mount my NAS to the linux box and backup from a single location which Backblaze doesn't allow. I get why they don't allow it but it's still annoying.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

1 minute ago, Lurick said:

Yah, I've got gigabit upload and I noticed their client not pushing more than 50Mbps despite the client have the resources to do much more. The main things keeping me with them is linux client support and that I can mount my NAS to the linux box and backup from a single location which Backblaze doesn't allow. I get why they don't allow it but it's still annoying.

Linux support was the reason I tried CrashPlan Small Business Plan since I plan on switching to Linux by the time Win 7 reaches EOL but I found it was pretty much useless. The final straw for me was when the idiots lost my account ID after a failed update and the directions they gave me to restore it (why the hell did I have to restore it; why couldn't they do it?) that made no sense at all and they wouldn't walk me through it. Dealing with their so called tech help was extremely frustrating, especially since I was constantly having to do so. Even more frustrating was the way different agents would contractict each other and, occasionally, themselves. Response time was usually slow, sometimes taking days.

 

One thing I forgot to mention were their frequent system outages that lasted from a few hours to a few days.