How are you backing up your computer? (1 Viewer)

[glvsav37]

I was using Crashplan for years as my cloud back up. But they are stopping personal backup services and moving to business only. 

Three are pushing me to Carbointe but still looking at other options. 

Currently we have my Mac laptop, my wife mac laptop and an old PC of my wife's on the plan. The old PC is important b/c it was around when my oldest was born and most of her childhood photos and videos are stored on that. 

My Mac laptop is more for a small design business I run out of my house. But it is getting maxed out and so I offload old client files to a redundant Drobo drive with 3, 1 to 2 TB HDs. We have a partition on there as well for family stuff. 

I love the Drobo for the extra space but am always concerned about something catastrophic happening in the house and there goes all those files. 

I'm leaning toward Backblaze for my could back up now but also wondering if there is any economical solutions for the Drobo as well. 

What is your backup plan like? 

 

[fantasycurse42]

I use a Seagate hard drive for any important files & all of my pictures/videos... I actually use 3 of them, all with the same stuff, just in case.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Curious also. I do a double-ish back-up. I backup the main drive of my iMac via TimeMachine locally on a 2TB drive. This allows me to go back easily if something crashes on the main HD, with the drive larger than the 500gb drive, I have multiple backups that I can go back to if I wanted.

I do my other drives (mostly media) to Crashplan currently. I like the unlimited space (I have ~4.5T) and the ability to d/l just a file.

I am looking where to go to next.

 

[eoMMan]

I use a Seagate hard drive for any important files & all of my pictures/videos... I actually use 3 of them, all with the same stuff, just in case.

That's pretty much what I do. External USB hard drives are that expensive and if you only have a little bit of stuff, you can get away with some USB flash drives.

It's just a matter of remembering to save stuff...

OP,  my work uses CrashPlan.

 

[Johnny Rock]

I don't bother. I just grab a copy off the dark web if I need it. 

 

[Mr. Ected]

I use a Seagate hard drive for any important files & all of my pictures/videos... I actually use 3 of them, all with the same stuff, just in case.

That's pretty much what I do. External USB hard drives are that expensive and if you only have a little bit of stuff, you can get away with some USB flash drives.

It's just a matter of remembering to save stuff...

OP,  my work uses CrashPlan.

Crashplan is dropping 'home' versions, moving to business only.

 

[Scoresman]

Mine's pretty heavy, monitor included, so I'd probably need a good handtruck to back it up.  

 

[glvsav37]

Curious also. I do a double-ish back-up. I backup the main drive of my iMac via TimeMachine locally on a 2TB drive. This allows me to go back easily if something crashes on the main HD, with the drive larger than the 500gb drive, I have multiple backups that I can go back to if I wanted.

I do my other drives (mostly media) to Crashplan currently. I like the unlimited space (I have ~4.5T) and the ability to d/l just a file.

I am looking where to go to next.

Backblaze seems to have the best cost/plan for personal use. its $5/mo. with unlimited space.  Also allows for external hard drives. 

They also have a B2 plan which I think works more like a big FTP but Im not sure I ned that. Really I'm looking for options where I could include the data on my Drobo. 

Edit to add that they won't back upon a TimeMachine Drive though. 

 

[glvsav37]

I use a Seagate hard drive for any important files & all of my pictures/videos... I actually use 3 of them, all with the same stuff, just in case.

yea I was doing this until it failed. Thats why I got the drobo for the redundancy. But it is still on site in my house and no amount of redundancy will help it in a flood or fire. 

 

[fantasycurse42]

yea I was doing this until it failed. Thats why I got the drobo for the redundancy. But it is still on site in my house and no amount of redundancy will help it in a flood or fire. 

You had 3 hard drives fail? Was it a fire/flood? I keep two in my house and one in my office.

 

[glvsav37]

You had 3 hard drives fail? Was it a fire/flood? I keep two in my house and one in my office.

no no, sorry...! was just using 1. I couldn't keep track of 3 of them rotating. I really suck at manual backups so having 1 was hard enough. 

my bad..  

 

[Osaurus]

Been using Cobian for years.

 

[fantasycurse42]

no no, sorry...! was just using 1. I couldn't keep track of 3 of them rotating. I really suck at manual backups so having 1 was hard enough. 

my bad..  

Was it in a fire/flood? I also keep photos backed up on AWS too, but I think my hard drives will provide sufficient backup.

 

[glvsav37]

Was it in a fire/flood? I also keep photos backed up on AWS too, but I think my hard drives will provide sufficient backup.

no the drive just failed after a while. It was many years ago, so maybe reliability got better. 

I'm sure yours are fine, esp keeping one off site, but I know that I suck at manual back ups and I would fall out of it just before something bad happened.  

 

[Brony]

Nowadays, I really only care about pictures as I haven't touched a local MP3 file in 2+ years. Same as FC42, keep 2 external drives at home and then have 3rd drive brought from home to my office.  I don't get to back up the office one very often, so the risk in case of fire is that I'd lose the last 12-24 months of pics. But because I put good pictures up on Google Photos, I sleep fine at night. 

 

[Brony]

I use SyncBack Free as sync method to external drive.  Works good for my purposes and it's free. 

 

[Mr. Ected]

I can't figure out the B2 calculation (and this is part of the reason why I like unlimited storage) I have a bunch of storage that is media (movies, music, pictures) that goes up once and doesn't change. I have a little that changes, but I may add some in bunches. This was triple what I was paying for Crashplan.

 

[Sullie]

I have an extra internal hard drive and I used Windows 10 free automated backup. 

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Backblaze seems to have the best cost/plan for personal use. its $5/mo. with unlimited space.  Also allows for external hard drives. 

They also have a B2 plan which I think works more like a big FTP but Im not sure I ned that. Really I'm looking for options where I could include the data on my Drobo. 

Edit to add that they won't back upon a TimeMachine Drive though. 

Does Backblaze have an auto backup feature?

Do you like it?

tried going to Backblaze.com and either the site is down or they are out of business. Got a funky error message

 

[SkyRattlers]

I use two external drives to backup pics mostly but also some files like old tax records etc.

And I paid for the pro version of Speed Dial 2 so that I'll never lose my bookmarks and they travel with me everywhere.

 

[Mr. Ected]

Does Backblaze have an auto backup feature?

Do you like it?

tried going to Backblaze.com and either the site is down or they are out of business. Got a funky error message

Does this link work?

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Does this link work?

Nope. Maybe it's blocked here at work. Not the blue screen of death, this:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

www.backblaze.com sent an invalid response.

Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

 

[Mr. Ected]

Does this link work?

Nope. Maybe it's blocked here at work. Not the blue screen of death, this:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

www.backblaze.com sent an invalid response.

Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

Probably on your end. I am trying to set them up to replace CrashPlan, and I am currently uploading files. Wouldn't surprise me if something from your work network was 'blocking' them.

 

[TheAristocrat]

I have three SSD drives in my computer and back up specific folders (nothing from Windows - only the folders I really need to protect) to one of the drivers without the OS.  I copy that backup to an external drive.  Probably do that once every three months or so.

 

[glvsav37]

Does Backblaze have an auto backup feature?

Do you like it?

tried going to Backblaze.com and either the site is down or they are out of business. Got a funky error message

I don't use it yet, but that's who i'm leaning toward.

I believe they do have an auto back up...that's what Crashplan had and i didn't have to do anything. I wouldn't use a service w/o that b/c i'm too lazy/busy to do it manually

If it was down its back up now, just checked

 

[glvsav37]

Probably on your end. I am trying to set them up to replace CrashPlan, and I am currently uploading files. Wouldn't surprise me if something from your work network was 'blocking' them.

so you pulled the trigger on it?

 

[Mr. Ected]

Probably on your end. I am trying to set them up to replace CrashPlan, and I am currently uploading files. Wouldn't surprise me if something from your work network was 'blocking' them.

so you pulled the trigger on it?

THey have a couple week freebie and it's $5/month otherwise. I have it, but on a test.

 

[Mister CIA]

I delete everything once a year, whether I need to or not; except my email, it grows like an unwanted weed.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

I push up on mine.

 

[Sand]

Really important files go on Fidsafe.  Pictures get backed up to a couple drives, one of which I keep at the office.  And those are also uploaded.

 

[drunken slob]

something dot

 

[bagger]

I use backblaze like it a lot, use it in conjunction with backing up to my external hard drive.

 

[GregR]

Does this link work?

Nope. Maybe it's blocked here at work. Not the blue screen of death, this:

This site can’t provide a secure connection

www.backblaze.com sent an invalid response.

Try running Windows Network Diagnostics.

ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR

I've gotten that error for proxy-related things before.

 

[Nick Vermeil]