How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for only $795

Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Firehed on Monday December 24, 2012 @04:38PM (#4964188)

I'm ok[1] with them for "I accidentally deleted a file" type stuff, I would not suggest it for a full system backup. I'd suggest SuperDuper! for that if you're on a Mac; I don't have any useful suggestions for Windows or Linux users (sorry!). Of course, I use a full system disk image for "I need to be up and running at 95% capacity within an hour", and these offsite file services as, basically, long-distance undo, or for files I'd be unable to get back in some other form. Think tape storage: it doesn't need to available ultra-fast, but I need to have as many nines of certainty possible that there will be some way to get at those files again.

[1] though I'm switching off of them, not sure where to yet. There's some sort of issue in their client software that murders my home network, rendering the entire thing unusable while a backup is running. Their support was... less than helpful in trying to remedy the situation. For $5 a month and with the amount of stuff I was backing up, I can't blame them.

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Re:How to terminate your worst enemy's Dropbox account for o... by Adirael on Monday December 24, 2012 @08:09PM (#4964694)

About the Network issues: something similar happened to me yesterday. I just moved to a new flat and my Internet connection went from 50MB/10MB to 10MB/1MB and if Backblaze starts a backup with the Automatic Throttle option on it just takes the whole upload bandwidth killing every other connection and rendering the connection unusable for the rest of the network.

I don't have any QoS set up on my home network, I found two fixes: running the backup manually before going to sleep (maybe I can create an Apple Script and just cron this) or turning the Automatic Throttle off and giving it the minimum available (for me) 20kbps.

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