I'm looking to get feedback on what people are finding to be the "best" cloud type online data backup mostly for wedding photography, some video and visual art. Essentially, most image/video date. Need something that is fast, reliable, cost effective without breaking the bank. Running PCs not MACs. ( I know, I know)
I was asking for a very reasonable combination... I said cost effective (without breaking the bank). Didn't say cheap. I'm talking value. Any sane person would want the same thing. Obviously, that's a problem for you. Keep doing what you're doing. Later.
If you have Amazon Prime, Prime Photo offers unlimited image backup (including raw) already included as part of Prime subscription and maybe 10gb of video. You can also pay extra for more video storage.
Been using 1Drive for a couple of years have no complaints. It's their standard 10TB package. If you have more than that, the price jumps! Note: on-line backups are pretty much fine as long as you have a high speed connection. We have fibre here so its 900+ both up and down. I wouldn't recommend using any of them if your connection is a lot slower.
I use BackBlaze to backup TBs of data. Price is right, backup is dependable, but restore is relatively slow, but this is for GB restore. Larger restores on media shipped to you. Also, do remote backup to Tim’s parent’s house..maybe not..
Backblaze here for a number of years. I only cloud backup around 2 TB though. I've had a major failure once and got a back-up drive shipped to me for restore and then returned it. I also made an ID10T error and was saved with an online download restore....🙏🏼
Edit: That's just cloud back-up. I have the same data on two SSD's in redundancy......
Thanks to the SSD apocalypse I have learned to be very frugal with culling where I haven't been in the past 😎
bwcolor wrote:
I use BackBlaze to backup TBs of data. Price is right, backup is dependable, but restore is relatively slow, but this is for GB restore. Larger restores on media shipped to you. Also, do remote backup to Tim’s parent’s house..maybe not..
Well, I have 1 copy in the cloud, 1 local, and 1 remote....all automated. 16 TB. I have my source on a RAID 6 volume with a hot spare, but that's obviously not counted in the above, as it's not a backup.
The backup at my parents is encrypted and it's like my last resort copy. But if you know someone who also wants to do backups, it's a cheap way to get an offsite copy. You an reciprocate for them. Not sure if that was a dig, or just an attempt at humor.
I used to use Backblaze B2 and Wasabi, but have been happy with my current solution.
tsdevine wrote:
Well, I have 1 copy in the cloud, 1 local, and 1 remote....all automated. 16 TB. I have my source on a RAID 6 volume with a hot spare, but that's obviously not counted in the above, as it's not a backup.
The backup at my parents is encrypted and it's like my last resort copy. But if you know someone who also wants to do backups, it's a cheap way to get an offsite copy. You an reciprocate for them. Not sure if that was a dig, or just an attempt at humor.
I used to use Backblaze B2 and Wasabi, but have been happy with my current solution....Show more →
Sorry.. no dig..just bad humor.. Great idea to backup to friend’s server.
chez wrote:
You want fast, reliable and cheap…good luck.
Yeah, it's the usual "pick two" there.
I use iDrive because it's pretty cheap and works well on my Mac. Fast it ain't but who cares if it sits and uploads for a day or two after I import a ton of images from a card.
I heartily recommend BackBlaze. Excellent price and features, fast uploads, reasonable CPU load, solid company. I currently have about 60TBs backed up with them.
If you have fast internet upload speeds, it's unbeatable.
(related info: I used to be CMO at BackBlaze's main competitor, CrashPlan. I was always impressed with their product and company.)
tsdevine wrote...probably more just paranoia on my part.
When it comes to backups of critical files, if you aren’t a bit paranoid you are probably not using a serious enough backup plan. ;-)
As a person who once had a device holding all photographic files go south in a non-recoverable way, and then discovered at that critical moment that the primary backup also had a problem, I was very happy that i had more than one backup system in place.
I’m not using a cloud backup at this point — though I can understand why people do — but here’s what I have:
1. My main system with its internal system SSD and an attached volume holding over 13TB of image files.
2. An automated hourly backup to another machine on the internal network at my location.
3. An automated daily backup to another machine attached volume.
4. A weekly automated backup to one of two additional volumes. One is directly attached to the computer and the other is stored at an offsite location. These two are switched every couple of weeks.
I figure that if the crater from the meteor takes out both my location and the remote location where that last set is stored and all of my files are gone… it won’t matter much since it probably took me out, too. ;-)
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