lostboy wrote: > I use Crashplan as part of tiered backup strategy, and have done for > past five years or so. It's $60 p.a. for unlimited encrypted storage for > one PC, so a little cheaper than Amazon with current exchange rates, but > backup specific. They will backup anything 'local' to a licensed > machine, and provide a sensible background backup application (backup > sets, file version retention including deleted files, etc.). Their app > will also allow backup to other PCs including across the net, so if you > have friend with a 24/7 server.... (their free version has this > capability - you only pay for central cloud services). > > I've found it reliable and it's saved my bacon on more than one > occasion. I find it quicker to find/restore the odd file from the cloud, > than go to local backups. However, full disk restores are _much_ quicker > from physical drives. In my server I use a disk pooling app with file > duplication as well and have found that this has taken care of wholesale > disk failures - Crashplan helps me when I've done something stupid and > haven't noticed at the time (deleted the wrong file and so on). > > I wouldn't contemplate remote backup without a fast internet connection, > and at the moment my unlimited fibre connection isn't so fast that I'd > be prepared to do without local backups either. I'm not sure that the > cloud backup would work well from a machine that is only on for short > periods. > > Chris Another Crashplan user here, I have 2.5TB backed up. As mentioned already, the software runs in the background, does incremental backups, its throttled. The original backup took about 3 months, 24/7, as I throttled the uplink to 500KB, but it was eventually done. Incremental backups, especially for flac (I do not backup movies) do not require much time, I'm throttling at 250KB 24/7 - this is far from fibre but gets the job done and it does not affect my web usage experience. CrashPlan desktop app provides a control on the uplink speed. I'm also with an ISP provider where upload does not count against your bandwidth.
If you are in US, you can mail a harddrive for an initial, seed backup, there are restrictions for mailing hard drives across borders so I did not bother. I had to recover a small portion of my files once and it was very easy, painless experience. I'm on linux and there were some changes to be made to config files to allow more than 2TB of backup data but there was enough support from CrashPlan to do so. Overall I'm quite happy with this solution, I have reduced much of the backup clutter that I had after moving to a smaller place. And unless CrashPlan crashes, I don't have to worry about hard drive crashes :-) George Transporter->Pathos Logos->Triangle Celius Touch->Yamaha RX-V673 -> Paradigm Monitor 7 2 Duets, 1 Boom RIP, 1 SB3, 1 Touch, 1 Radio, Transporter OnePlus3 -> Sennheiser HD 380 Pro 2 servers -> Ubuntu Linux, NUC and Synology 1 Bay ------------------------------------------------------------------------ matka's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34878 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107345 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
