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so ive got a great backup system (touch wood.. ) but this is physical on site backup, i really ought to get stuff in the cloud so its safe against theft and fire.. any recommendations ? i think i need about 1-2tb of storage for video and images.. perhaps iso's of machines.. any suggestion on who to use keeping costs low??
 
See earlier discussions (in this section) about Hubic (search should find them, but I doubt they're that far back). At the moment I'm using Acronis but will review this when the subscription next rolls around.
 
Cheers , im really looking at a fee for upload and not to access stuff regularly looking at amazon AWS 3 seems best value at a cost to upload only so going to test that for now..
 
tomkbucks said:
so ive got a great backup system (touch wood.. ) but this is physical on site backup, i really ought to get stuff in the cloud so its safe against theft and fire.. any recommendations ? i think i need about 1-2tb of storage for video and images.. perhaps iso's of machines.. any suggestion on who to use keeping costs low??
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What do you shoot with ? I seem to remember Canon offer a free 10GB cloud storage
 
andyred said:
What do you shoot with ? I seem to remember Canon offer a free 10GB cloud storage
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OP is looking for about 1-2tb.
Personally I use Amazon as "free" photo storage as a prime member but limited free storage for video
 
nog said:
OP is looking for about 1-2tb.
Personally I use Amazon as "free" photo storage as a prime member but limited free storage for video
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Oops, my bad for mis-reading :cool:
 
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tomkbucks said:
so ive got a great backup system (touch wood.. ) but this is physical on site backup, i really ought to get stuff in the cloud so its safe against theft and fire.. any recommendations ? i think i need about 1-2tb of storage for video and images.. perhaps iso's of machines.. any suggestion on who to use keeping costs low??
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I would suggest that you consider cloud in addition to your physical backup, rather than replacing your physical with cloud.

Keep your current physical backup going and never give up on it, when you started backing up to cloud. Use both of them.

You may be right about your physical backup at home, subject to fire and theft, but...

Your backup on the cloud is out of your control. Those people looking after your backup, anything can happen there. Fire, earthquake, flooding, hacking, theft, crooked employee, company went bust and closed down, or even a civil war.

Of course, what are the chances of it happening? But better safer than sorry if you use both physical and cloud, that is, anything happens to your physical, thank god for cloud, yet anything happens to cloud, thank god for physical.
 
I use crashplan (Code42) - unlimited for the cost of a Triple, Venti, Half Sweet, Non-Fat, Caramel Macchiato each month.

Have over a TB there and runs on my backup machine and backs up in the early hours. You can actually use it for your entire backup work flow - it will perform both on prem and off prem backups for you. I recently had to restore 200Gb from there and all without issues which is by far the most important thing...test your restores!

I work i IT and frequently come across companies using their business service quite happy and they have 10's of TBs up there. They are quite highly regarded.

Last thing I would say is getting this data up there is hard enough so invest a bit of cash in a company with the service as it's main function (Amazon, Crashplan etc) - when it is free, they have no obligation to support you when you come to rely on the recovery of your most treasured data.

Hope that helps.
 
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