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Having a drive thats just gone caput with literally everything I'm looking at cloud storage options and therefore looking for advice from those who use them, some of the pro ones look great until you get to the monthly $49, Flickr makes sense but won't store CR2 files, Amazon looks interesting at $11 per year unlimited, anyone used it or got other suggestions?

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I use backblaze and happy with their service. For $49 per year, you get unlimited storage. Only thing to bear in mind is the initial backup is time consuming and dependent on how much data you need to backup.
Not used Amazon, but for $11 sounds like very good value.
 
I use Hubic, not sure where the $11/year Amazon deal is myself.

I think I pay £70/year for 2TB online with full delete/restore going back 6 months.
 
OneDrive offer 1TB for free if you have a O365 Home Premium subscription. Can store CR2 files. Excellent service.
 
John wells said:
Having a drive thats just gone caput with literally everything I'm looking at cloud storage options and therefore looking for advice from those who use them, some of the pro ones look great until you get to the monthly $49, Flickr makes sense but won't store CR2 files, Amazon looks interesting at $11 per year unlimited, anyone used it or got other suggestions?

John
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Feel free to go for cloud storage if you like, but you still need a drive as a back up, better make it an external drive.

Have you thought about this: Once you upload your photos and files to cloud, it is up to them to look after your files. You've heard the news, sometimes some hackers access those cloud storage and do something to it, then customers ends up wondering if their files are okay. What if one of the buildings that holds the cloud servers for one of those companies burned down?

It makes sense for you to upload to the cloud, but still have to make copies to your own external drive, that way, if external drive fails, you got backed up files on the cloud, yet if cloud fails, you got backed up files on your own external drive.
 
I use an internal (For Now) 1TB drive and a 1TB DropBox account for £7.99 per month..

Stores anything, with the extras of being able to share links/directories with other people..

I use it for my clients.
 
HUBIC https://hubic.com/en/

Several companies we support using it and it's solid. they based in France and one of the biggest hostings in the world. 50 euros for 12 months 10TB storage (you could try they free service 25GB)
 
I am also using the one drive service. Pretty happy with it as long as you have a good internet connection.
 
asaspasas6 said:
HUBIC https://hubic.com/en/

Several companies we support using it and it's solid. they based in France and one of the biggest hostings in the world. 50 euros for 12 months 10TB storage (you could try they free service 25GB)
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That's my supplier and I find it outstanding !
 
Amazon glacier is interesting. LTO storage so you have to wait for access.
 
One of the great things about Hubic and I don't work for them is the agent is a two way agent, so it sits on your PC or server and uploads any changes you make to the local data.

But also if you login remotely to the web interface and upload there it replicates the files and folder changes you make to the local drive using the agent.

Incredibly good if like me you are running a business from a flat in Erskine when the wife (admin mouse) is based in hudds and so is the server.
 
So it's a drive mirror rather than a backup?

What if you're working on a laptop and you want to archive a finished project then delete from the local disk?
 
As I've probably said before, Cloud backup is a good tertiary option. If you lose a glut of data in a hurry, then it might take you a while to restore it.
 
Mr Bump said:
One of the great things about Hubic and I don't work for them is the agent is a two way agent, so it sits on your PC or server and uploads any changes you make to the local data.

But also if you login remotely to the web interface and upload there it replicates the files and folder changes you make to the local drive using the agent.

Incredibly good if like me you are running a business from a flat in Erskine when the wife (admin mouse) is based in hudds and so is the server.
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Not sure why Hubic is not very popular (lack of advertisement maybe?). It's awesome. I would use it too, but I use in-house backup solutions which back everything to my companies servers :) But several companies we support they use it and they never had any issues... at all...
 
st599 said:
So it's a drive mirror rather than a backup?

What if you're working on a laptop and you want to archive a finished project then delete from the local disk?
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You have the option of mirror or backup i use mirror as my data size is fairly static. given the cheapness of drives though why delete?
With hubic the price i pay is up to 10TB
 
st599 said:
Amazon glacier is interesting. LTO storage so you have to wait for access.
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I used glacier for a while, but the cost was quite high - the per gb per month storage fees were low, but the requests cost was pretty high. currently using crash plan which seemed to have the best reviews around a year ago when I was looking.

I use cloud backup as a third line. I back up locally to external hard drives, rotating off site occasionally. The cloud backup is mainly to cover the eventuality of the house being burnt down and the off site backup not being up to date (extreme I know...!)
 
Rapscallion said:
I use cloud backup as a third line. I back up locally to external hard drives, rotating off site occasionally. The cloud backup is mainly to cover the eventuality of the house being burnt down and the off site backup not being up to date (extreme I know...!)
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My kinda guy.

Pure perfect plan. This is one of the few kind of plans most of us should do for backing up files. Even if the house gets burned down, and the cloud backup gets ruined (the company went bankrupt, hacked into, natural disaster or war at where the company keeps their servers, etc.,) then there is always your off-site back up files. If your off-site back up and the cloud goes boom!, you still got your main back up. What are the chances of all three happening at the same time?

I wouldn't worry about the off site backup not being up-to-date, after all that's the whole point of back up, we're meant to accept the price of paying for losing files based on timeframe. Say some of us hardly do much work, therefore back up weekly, so would say "I don't mind losing a few days worth of files." or those of us who are very busy, therefore back up every day would say "I don't mind losing few hours of work" rather than saying "Oh my god! My whole life's work gone up in smoke!"

I prefer to make sure my off-site is backed up every week, while my main back up is always backed up every day. Never allow it to be overdue by weeks or it takes ages to back up.
 
Eventually I want to move my data storage to a raid NAS drive to add a level of redundancy in case of drive failure. It will also tidy up my data storage as I currently have data across 3 drives (not including backups). But it will cost me best part of a £1000 to get the system I want, so will be a little while yet...
 
I use two multi-terabyte hard drives for backup: one stored offsite, with switching ideally about once every couple of months; for cloud storage I use Dropbox, Google and iCloud: the first two for 'special projects' which involve a lot of people sharing. These all work fine and give me the flexibility I need. A simple one-size fits all solution does not fit with my varying uses of photography: hence this disparate solution.
 
Just looking into Cloud backup / storage as it's the new year.. any good deals on at the minute?
 
hubic seems to be a really good deal, thanks for the info, going to give the free 25gb a try first.
 
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