Recommend me an online backup company
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Hi
I've been using carbonite until recently but have lost a bit of faith in them so would like to try someone else.
Gigasoft have been recommended but it's actually impossible to deal with them despite having trialled the bloody thing.
Who else is known and good? It's for a 100-150gb of database files and some user folders, with daily increment changes, on a server.
Thanks
I've been using carbonite until recently but have lost a bit of faith in them so would like to try someone else.
Gigasoft have been recommended but it's actually impossible to deal with them despite having trialled the bloody thing.
Who else is known and good? It's for a 100-150gb of database files and some user folders, with daily increment changes, on a server.
Thanks
I use http://www.crashplan.com/ - and have done for nearly two years (Crashplan+ family unlimited plan)
I've had a catastropihc failure of hard disks and done a full restore, and I've done a few trial partial restores without issue.
The mobile app is quite handy if you want a file (used that quite a bit).
You can also backup to another computer if you wish.
The gift subscription is the way to go... https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl - and I've had no issues with it being a US company.
ETA - you may need to look at CrashplanPRO...
I've had a catastropihc failure of hard disks and done a full restore, and I've done a few trial partial restores without issue.
The mobile app is quite handy if you want a file (used that quite a bit).
You can also backup to another computer if you wish.
The gift subscription is the way to go... https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store.vtl - and I've had no issues with it being a US company.
ETA - you may need to look at CrashplanPRO...
Edited by Podie on Wednesday 6th November 10:04
Fotic said:
Hi
I've been using carbonite until recently but have lost a bit of faith in them so would like to try someone else.
Gigasoft have been recommended but it's actually impossible to deal with them despite having trialled the bloody thing.
Who else is known and good? It's for a 100-150gb of database files and some user folders, with daily increment changes, on a server.
Amazon Web Services, long as you stay in the EU region and dont go to the East Coast datacentre, you'll be fine. I've been using carbonite until recently but have lost a bit of faith in them so would like to try someone else.
Gigasoft have been recommended but it's actually impossible to deal with them despite having trialled the bloody thing.
Who else is known and good? It's for a 100-150gb of database files and some user folders, with daily increment changes, on a server.
I use Crashplan too and thoroughly recommend it. I have the single machine unlimited plan ($5 a month) and back up almost half a terabyte of data from my NAS, I've also done several partial restores without issue, it just works. The peer to peer client is also useful on family machines where Ive set them to back up to my NAS, so when I get the next "my computer is broken" family IT support call I don't have to try and recover stuff from failing HDDs.
crashS2K said:
How do you back up NAS to crashplan? I thought that you could only back up from your PC?
I built a NAS using an HP Microserver and OpenMediaVault. This allowed me to install Crashplan on it. I can manage it by using the GUI from a Windows installation with a few tweaks of the config file.All my machines have Crashplan installed and they back up to the NAS. The NAS in turn backs them and itself up to the Cloud. I am backing up close to 1Tb.
You cannot install Crashplan on all NAS's but there are a few commercially available ones where you can. Otherwise build your own.
e320dave said:
crashS2K said:
How do you back up NAS to crashplan? I thought that you could only back up from your PC?
I built a NAS using an HP Microserver and OpenMediaVault. This allowed me to install Crashplan on it. I can manage it by using the GUI from a Windows installation with a few tweaks of the config file.All my machines have Crashplan installed and they back up to the NAS. The NAS in turn backs them and itself up to the Cloud. I am backing up close to 1Tb.
You cannot install Crashplan on all NAS's but there are a few commercially available ones where you can. Otherwise build your own.
e320dave said:
I built a NAS using an HP Microserver and OpenMediaVault. This allowed me to install Crashplan on it. I can manage it by using the GUI from a Windows installation with a few tweaks of the config file.
All my machines have Crashplan installed and they back up to the NAS. The NAS in turn backs them and itself up to the Cloud. I am backing up close to 1Tb.
You cannot install Crashplan on all NAS's but there are a few commercially available ones where you can. Otherwise build your own.
I do this too .. works a dream. One word of warning however be aware that if you crashplan from PC to NAS then expect the NAS to backup those files to the cloud it wont. Crashplan doesnt backup its own backups. Otherwise you could just have EVERYONE backup to you and only have one paid account to then push to the cloud. To get round this I have all my machines use mapped drives to the NAS/HP direct then it backs itself up so its only backing up files not crashplan archives.All my machines have Crashplan installed and they back up to the NAS. The NAS in turn backs them and itself up to the Cloud. I am backing up close to 1Tb.
You cannot install Crashplan on all NAS's but there are a few commercially available ones where you can. Otherwise build your own.
recalluk said:
I do this too .. works a dream. One word of warning however be aware that if you crashplan from PC to NAS then expect the NAS to backup those files to the cloud it wont. Crashplan doesnt backup its own backups. Otherwise you could just have EVERYONE backup to you and only have one paid account to then push to the cloud. To get round this I have all my machines use mapped drives to the NAS/HP direct then it backs itself up so its only backing up files not crashplan archives.
Crashplan will backup it's own backups, you just cannot directly restore them the other machine. If the other machine and the NAS go pop, then you will first need to recover the Crashplan files onto the NAS and then only once they are recovered can you then recover the machine that was backing up to the NAS.Sorry for the resurrection
Ive been wondering whats new in this field
MS have just reduced the monthly lease on the full Office suite to £6 including a TB of cloud space
This obviously makes Dropbox look a bit stupid
Im about to buy a new laptop and as this ones running Office 2008 the above looks attractive
On the other hand have Crashplan and Backblaze upped their game, or are likely to, as dedicated backup options?
Cheers
illmonkey said:
hijack of the thread. I use crashplan and it makes my pc run like a dog, until I turn the processes off.
I've got a ticket open and they seem not bothered by it.
Just me?
I used to run it on my PC and didn't have any performance related issues, the only issue I had was that the front end application failed to launch. The services started and backups ran, but I couldn't change the selections. I found the support to be good, and the issue was resolved quite quickly, about 2 weeks IIRC (I was away from home so not at teh machine every day). It was a java related issue. I now run the application as a headless linux one, so there's no support.I've got a ticket open and they seem not bothered by it.
Just me?
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