Re:Ask HN: How do you back up your drives?
by ricardobeat on Saturday July 19, 2014 @06:05PM
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I recently found myself with most of my data - accumulated over a 10-year period - in a single drive, and decided it was time to do something about it. My takeaways:
- Avoid Backblaze unless you have your external drives connected at all times, files are erased after 30 days if not seen by the app.
- GDrive is the cheapest, but can't backup external HDDs at all.
- Arq/Glacier or Tarsnap is probably the safest archival you can get, but can be quite expensive depending on your usage pattern.
- Crashplan, as Backblaze, focus on 'devices'. They are best suited to people who don't have lots of files outside of their computer. Crashplan has a terrible reputation for losing customer's data.
In the end I went with Bitcasa[1] and am quite happy so far. It works the way I want it to: not necessary to mirror all data locally, can throw files adhoc at it, is accessible anywhere, decent web UI, mobile apps. Price is fair (€8/month for 1TB) and speeds are decent. It's the best I could find, still keeping my HDD backup in a closet just in case...
- Avoid Backblaze unless you have your external drives connected at all times, files are erased after 30 days if not seen by the app.
- GDrive is the cheapest, but can't backup external HDDs at all.
- Arq/Glacier or Tarsnap is probably the safest archival you can get, but can be quite expensive depending on your usage pattern.
- Crashplan, as Backblaze, focus on 'devices'. They are best suited to people who don't have lots of files outside of their computer. Crashplan has a terrible reputation for losing customer's data.
In the end I went with Bitcasa[1] and am quite happy so far. It works the way I want it to: not necessary to mirror all data locally, can throw files adhoc at it, is accessible anywhere, decent web UI, mobile apps. Price is fair (€8/month for 1TB) and speeds are decent. It's the best I could find, still keeping my HDD backup in a closet just in case...
[1] http://l.bitcasa.com/XFLTXjG7 (with my referral code)