Opinions on good cloud backup?
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I can get around it by backing up my Fedora Desktop to a NAS or USB and then running a Windows 10 VM on my desktop (I do already) and having BackBlaze there backup the USB or NAS.
But that is hacky.
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@jaredbusch Not only that, but if you need your data back, you have to pay for that too.
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@dafyre said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
@jaredbusch Not only that, but if you need your data back, you have to pay for that too.
As I have never needed to use it, I am not even worried about that cost.
If it came to getting it back, I would be recovering from a total site loss and the expense is worth it.
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One thing to look at, too, is deleted file retention policies for these services.
If that matters to you.
I think BB is 30 days. CP is forever.
That's not saying either is better, just something to consider.
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@larsen161 this is what im talking about hahahhaa.... you must have lots of interesting video collection there
if you know what i mean 
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What about SpiderOak?
https://spideroak.com/That supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
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@black3dynamite said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
What about SpiderOak?
https://spideroak.com/That supports Windows, Mac and Linux.
First thing it says is "for your most important files" so fuck that. A backup is everything. not what your software thinks is important.
Way more expensive.
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@guyinpv How much data do you need to back up now? How much will it be in 5 years?
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Assuming you would rarely, if ever, need to access the data; AWS Glacier could be an affordable alternative:
$0.004 per GB / month
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@ramblingbiped glacier restore time is very slow and quite expensive. but it is good alternative
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@guyinpv I'm just asking because if this is for home and you have a decent amount of data to back up... it may just be best to bring up some crappy desktop somewhere with a few drives running FreeNAS. You can back up to that via iSCSI with whatever backup software you want.
This may be cheaper and easier than "cloud" if you have a lot of data.
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@tim_g said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
@guyinpv I'm just asking because if this is for home and you have a decent amount of data to back up... it may just be best to bring up some crappy desktop somewhere with a few drives running FreeNAS. You can back up to that via iSCSI with whatever backup software you want.
This may be cheaper and easier than "cloud" if you have a lot of data.
This does nothing to get it offsite, which is the point.
It is cheap and easy to make solid local backups.
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@jaredbusch said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
This does nothing to get it offsite, which is the point.
Ah, I missed that requirement.
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hi, how do you emulate the share folder as hard disk in windows 10?
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@kuyaz said in Opinions on good cloud backup?:
hi, how do you emulate the share folder as hard disk in windows 10?
mklink
Give me a minute and I can screenshot a current example I use with CrashPlanPro at a client.
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@jaredbusch I tried mklink but doesn't work with BB.
I didn't know you was referring to CP.Thanks for the info.
