Posted: 4/6/2011 7:13:41 AM EDT
| I have about 1.5 TB of data I would like to backup to "the cloud" but since most of it is on an external 1TB drive I can't use carbonite. What other options do I have. This is not personal data, just movies, books and music. |
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2gb Free on Dropbox.com
plus you gert up to 8gb with events and referals. Also they have a pretty good desktop program that automatically updates your files. They also have iphone/androids apps. and a web interface. ETA: Other options, 5gb free on Amazon S3. 2gb free on amazon's cloud mp3 player (only for mp3s i think.) There are also some servidces that use your gmail storage as a file store. ETA2: HAHAHA! Oh, shit. I thought he said 1.5gb. Disregard. |
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Possible easiest answer?
Well, if you're happy with Carbonite's service, spend a couple hundred dollars and get another internal 2TB drive, keep the backup files there so carbonite can access them, and then use the 1TB external near-line deep storage. I've never used Carbonite, but everything I've heard about them is good, can't really comment on their competitors. Personally though, I'll always trust backups I made myself over something that's supposed to just magically happen transparently in the background. Plus I'd be really hesitant to trust anything I consider private to "the cloud", because the tin-hat deep inside me says "private" is never private when it comes to data on the internet. |
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That's an assload of data, even on the fastest of residential internet connections. Storage is mercifully cheap, these days. Keep two external drives and rotate them out periodically, such that one is always stored off site (protects against theft, acts of God, provides redundancy, etc). Your CRITICAL data (movies and tunes aren't all that critical) can be backed up online (Always have a local backup, though!!), using whatever service floats your boat (I roll my own, personally). For this, you can keep it down to a few gigs. |
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You are going to have to decide what is important and what isnt. If you have 1.5tb critical data, that boggles my mind. Trim it out to the 2gb that is important and don't store your porn offisite If you deal with scads of high res photography (particularly in RAW format) or do a lot of video editing, managing terabytes of data probably isn't out of line, I might think. |
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Quoted: That's an assload of data, even on the fastest of residential internet connections. Storage is mercifully cheap, these days. Keep two external drives and rotate them out periodically, such that one is always stored off site (protects against theft, acts of God, provides redundancy, etc). Your CRITICAL data (movies and tunes aren't all that critical) can be backed up online (Always have a local backup, though!!), using whatever service floats your boat (I roll my own, personally). For this, you can keep it down to a few gigs. Amazon now give you 5GB for free, I've played around with it a little and it's pretty decent/usable. |
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Quoted: Quoted: That's an assload of data, even on the fastest of residential internet connections. Storage is mercifully cheap, these days. Keep two external drives and rotate them out periodically, such that one is always stored off site (protects against theft, acts of God, provides redundancy, etc). Your CRITICAL data (movies and tunes aren't all that critical) can be backed up online (Always have a local backup, though!!), using whatever service floats your boat (I roll my own, personally). For this, you can keep it down to a few gigs. Amazon now give you 5GB for free, I've played around with it a little and it's pretty decent/usable. microsoft and idrive also give out 5 gb for free. 500 gigs at idrive is $150 a year. |
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I don't have a desktop PC but this may be a reason to get one and put in a huge data storage array and do then RAID back ups. I was looking at a networked WD Worldbook 2TB unit but for as much as that costs I can buy a referbed tower and just use it as a media server.
FYI, it is not porn LOL! I have a super fast (and free  ) residential connection and have been busy aquiring music and movies. BlueRays are freaking huge!
I would not consider any of this critical, however I would prefer to not lose it. |
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http://lifehacker.com/#!5788508/use-multiple-online-cloud-storage-services-for-free-and-organized-backup the first sentence has a link about paid services also. |
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Build a redundant RAID array. RAID is not backup. It seems like it is until you delete something you shouldn't have. ZFS 
The day you start plugging in mirrored pairs into your pool is the day your life changes forever. I demoed a thumper here at work. We would have kept it if they could have gotten CIFS/Samba/whatever to work. I do like zfs though. |
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That's an assload of data, even on the fastest of residential internet connections. Storage is mercifully cheap, these days. Keep two external drives and rotate them out periodically, such that one is always stored off site (protects against theft, acts of God, provides redundancy, etc). Your CRITICAL data (movies and tunes aren't all that critical) can be backed up online (Always have a local backup, though!!), using whatever service floats your boat (I roll my own, personally). For this, you can keep it down to a few gigs. +1 Use a continuous online backup for your really important stuff. Get a duplicate external drive and backup everything locally to that. Stash it at a relative's house or something if you're really concerned. Backing up (and restoring) 1TB+ of data over a residential internet connection is gonna be nigh-on impossible. |
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If you don't go cloud and the data is really critical, get two backup drives. One keep at the house, another if you have relatives nearby or a safety deposit box. Robocopy is a great MS tool, free, and easy too. I have a script if you want Yea, for the size you are talking about, this is what I would do. Pick up a second 2tb drive, copy everything to both. Then just keep on in the office and bring it home every month to update. It sounds like it isn't that critical of data, so monthly should be fine. If you are ripping blu-rays you will find out how small 2tb really is. Pretty soon you'll end up with a 21tb RAID5 array and wondering if your wife will let you get a second. |
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Quoted: I demoed a thumper here at work. We would have kept it if they could have gotten CIFS/Samba/whatever to work. I do like zfs though. Some people might be nervous about deploying it at the enterprise level (I know I would) but the Samba server bundled with freenas seems to work well. |
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I demoed a thumper here at work. We would have kept it if they could have gotten CIFS/Samba/whatever to work. I do like zfs though. Some people might be nervous about deploying it at the enterprise level (I know I would) but the Samba server bundled with freenas seems to work well. From what I could tell they were using plain old open source Samba compiled on Solaris. Same config file, man pages, etc. It just couldn't hang when you put a load on it. Which blew the whole thing for us since we were going to use it for photo storage for our web app and it had to be solid. When I talked to support they said they were working on their own implementation of CIFS and it was due out "real soon now" but they didn't have a date. So that was that. It's a shame because it was a nice machine. We got it on a try-it-before-you-buy-it kinda thing and when I told the owner that's what they said, he told me to box it up and send it back. Now we're using that little Dell iSCSI san. It seems fine but we haven't really put a huge load on it yet. |