Best Remote Back Up

pavb2

Hi all what is the best site for remote back up looking for about 1Tb

Thanks

Pavb2

chin_grin

Found this if it's any use?

http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/

biko

https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage

unnameduser

You'd probably be best with an Irish company with Irish servers so that if your needed to restore 1TB of data it could be transported from data centre to your location rather than waiting on a TB download which can be v v v slow.

pavb2

dropbox was suggested has anyone any opinion on this

fionny

http://www.irishbackupserver.com/

Expensive enough though for a TB but then they all are

unnameduser

Dropbox is an excellent system. for 1 TB you'd be looking at about $1995 (quick calc) What is your actual download speed. Do the maths on how long it would take to download 1TB at that speed (assuming dropbox do not limit download speed)

aidan_walsh

Carbonite and Backblaze both do unlimited storage for about €50-60/year.

pavb2

After looking round I'm not sure if I should go the way of remote storage when I can get a 1TB external hard drive for €100

Fluffy88

It would be far quicker, easier and safer to do local backups to an external hard drive. Assuming you get some good software to do it, that will only backup new or changed files each time it's run.

Another way to protect your data that would be initially slightly harder to setup but once it's running you will never have to worry about doing backups as it's done automatically is RAID. If you know nothing about RAID I recommend watching this on RAID 0 & 1 and then this one on RAID 5,6 & 10. No need in me wasting time explaining it when he does a great job of it. My suggestion would be to setup a RAID 5, 6 or 10 array so some of your hard drives could die and you wouldn't lose any data. Might cost a little more than a single 1TB external solution and the pain of setting it up would take time but once it's running you don't ever need to worry about your data.

aidan_walsh

A good backup strategy should include local and remote backups. Remotes are generally for extreme necessity, a local backup isn't going to be much good if your house goes up in flames while you're away.

Personally, I have a Drobo connected to my Mac providing redundant storage for larger media files and a Time Machine router backing up system files. Both of these are backed up to Backblaze. My project files are also kept on Dropbox.

If you don't want to go with a cloud backup strategy, you can backup to a HDD and keep it with a trusted person but away from your own home. However for this to be effective you would need to get and update it regularly while a software to server solution could do this for you in the background either persistently or on a schedule.

unnameduser

Whilst Fluffy88's RAID solutions are an excellent suggestion, Aidan_Walsh has correctly pointed out that "a local backup isn't going to be much good if your house goes up in flames while you're away". Not to mention the possibility of theft, flood etc etc.


Best of luck with whatever solutions you go along with.