![]() ![]() That’s what I have with Crashplan and I’ve been happy. I setup an agent on my machine, it backs things up, manages storage, and I just pay the vendor. Carbonite and BackBlaze, offer a service. I guess they’re all the cloud, but two of these are service providers. ![]() These aren’t bad, and having Backblaze use on line, not cold storage is tempting. If I were to store 2TB with Arq, I’m looking at this for a 1 year cost: Provider They manage the files in the storage (as an image), and they limit this to 1TB. If I want to go to 4TB, then I’m $300/user or some complex, move stuff from one machine to the other.Ĭloudberry is out here. PricingĪrq costs $50 per machine, so that’s $100 for me.Ĭloudberry costs $49.99/user, so that’s $99.98. Egress costs money, but the first few requests are low, so that’s not a big deal. I have close to that in pictures and video now. All of the storage tends to be /GB/mo, so let’s look at 2TB as a round number. It’s colder storage that can be slow to restore. The cheapest storage isn’t really quick access or online. If I look, I see these vendors as choices for me: Since I have a lot of images and video, I need lots of space. If you use your own software, then you need to pay for storage separately. Arq also lets you hold encryption keys, so you have control of your data. Arq works with Amazon cloud, S3, Glacier, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud storage, Dropbox, basically anything. It keeps multiple versions of files, and backs up whatever you want, as long as your computer can see it. I looked at Cloudberry years ago, as they have a SQL Server module that will move your database backups to the cloud.Īrq Backup was recommended by a few friends, and it has some nice features. It’s essentially a server software, but one that runs on your desktop or laptop. These systems work by running on your machine as a process and performing a backup at regular intervals. There are two choices that are software: Arq and Cloudberry. While she’s technically savvy, she doesn’t want a hassle here. I don’t want to be helping her find files on S3 or the Google Cloud and restore them. As much as I’d like the control, I also like the convenience, especially for my wife. The service backs up your data to some vendor that manages it, which is what Crashplan did. The software will just back up your machine, but you need to arrange storage separately. These are a combination of software and services. I asked for recommendations and got these. Your process may be different, but hopefully this helps. This post looks at choices and evaluation of the options. I’m sure I have > 1TB already and I’m not taking less pictures. I’m going to assume 2TB of storage needed. My daughter has also gone to the cloud for things she cares about, so we’re down to: I essentially keep nothing on the laptop I need. My laptop died and had to be rebuilt, so I use OneDrive/Dropbox for stuff I need and assume everything else will die. ![]() This changed as my boy decided he didn’t like his data with ours. This was about $150 a year, but I could to 5 machines. ![]()
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