Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup and check restores

Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by dirktheman on Monday March 31, 2014 @07:57AM (#7500834)

Crashplan or backblaze are very user-friendly, but rather expensive, too. As a cheaper alternative, you can use Amazon Glacier. It costs mere pennies a month. ($0.18 in my case, where I would spend over $5.00 a month at crashplan/backblaze). However, AWS will charge you a lot more if you ever need to get your data back in a hurry. As a last resort solution (for instance my house burns down and my off-site external harddisk gets stolen) it's excellent, though.

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by nodata on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:00AM (#7500851)

Crashplan and backblaze are not rather expensive, they're cheap. Five bucks a month and you don't have to do any complicated calculations when you want your data restored.

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by nakedrobot2 on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:39AM (#7501005)

... and at $5/month, if you're a photographer with many terabytes of data, it is 1/10 the cost of amazon glacier, last time I checked!

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by dirktheman on Monday March 31, 2014 @09:29AM (#7501286)

Okay, "expensive" might be stretching it a bit... But in my specific case it's a lot cheaper. If you have several TB of data/photos and/or want an impeccable UI, by all means, go for one of these!

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by aroch on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:41AM (#7501020)

With how the new AWS S3/Glacier storage works, you no longer have to do any calculations for restoring from AWS either

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by deanclatworthy on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:29AM (#7500950)

I considered the same thing. But when you are backing up several terabytes of photos and home movies collected over many years the cost of storing them on Glacier isn't as cheap as using the unlimited service of Crashplan or Backblaze ($10 a month vs $5-6 month). Furthermore, Crashplan and Backblaze don't charge you to retrieve your data unlike Glacier, which is where it gets very expensive.

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by GrumpySimon on Monday March 31, 2014 @08:41AM (#7501013)

Absolutely. After messing around with various combinations of rsync/ssh/unison/s3/glacier/etc for a few years, I bit the bullet and paid for Crashplan. It's cheap - the family plan is ~150 USD/year for up to ten computers, unlimited.

It's a lifesaver. I've installed it on my parents/wifes/siblings computers and the piece of mind it gives me is immense - when I get the inevitable phone calls about the damn computer deleting that important file, I can either tell them how to recover it, or do it myself.

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by zimpenfish on Monday March 31, 2014 @10:52AM (#7501784)

I'd like to use the Crashplan Family option to cover everyone but since it's all shared and there's seemingly no way to silo the data per-computer, that's a total non-starter. Which is a shame because I'd love to give them my cash.

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by waylonrobert on Monday March 31, 2014 @04:47PM (#7504047)

Just get an individual account for that purpose?

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Re:Today is World Backup Day – a friendly reminder to backup... by zimpenfish on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @04:12AM (#7506758)

Doesn't really solve the problem of backing up multiple machines spread over multiple sites for multiple people though.

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