Personal: Cloud backups

[jamin100]

Can anyone recommend an online cloud backup provider for personal use?

 

My mac drives and backup drives are starting to fill up and need now need to think of another plan for backing things up.

 

I have around 1TB of pictures and home movies and around 2TB of iTunes data that i want to back up.

 

Ive read reviews of crashplan and back blaze who seem to be the main players but are there any better UK providers?

[JoeBloggs]

@localzuk put in another thread recently of a provider, £50pa for 10TB of storage I think?

[localzuk]

Yeah, I use HubiC.com (my referral code is UPFNLC if you sign up ). Seems pretty good to me! They're not in the UK though, they're in France.

[Arthur]

Yeah, I use HubiC.com (my referral code is UPFNLC if you sign up.

Do you get more space or a discount if we use that code?

[localzuk]

Do you get more space or a discount if we use that code?

 

I get a bit of extra space.

[jamin100]

Is it more a syncing service than a backup service ?

[Arthur]

I get a bit of extra space.

I think I'll give it a try especially since hubiC is supported by ExpanDrive which means I can map a drive letter to the cloud storage and just drag-and-drop stuff across.

 

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[john]

I use Crashplan and been very happy with that have the family plan and its unlimited data from many sources and can use it to backup others PCs to my NAS via the same software and to the cloud seems good tech to me

[southhamster]

Another +1 for crashplan.

The free version will still backup to a local device or machine which is handy for people just wanting a USB backup or two.

Cloud version I've found excellent.

[localzuk]

Is it more a syncing service than a backup service ?

 

It can do both.

[tom_newton]

Big fan of backblaze myself.

[XiJ]

Crash plan here too. Unlimited data up to the cloud and I also have a local backup on a different computer too.

 

Think I'm going to add another couple of computers to the list.

[K.C.Leblanc]

I'm another Crashplan user, just bare in mind with that much data your initial backup might well take weeks.

[MattGibson]

If you were looking to use a NAS in house then why not use the free version of Veeam for home and business users? (Non-virtual)

 

Then as a secondary you could back the NAS to the cloud. I think most of them offer this.

[Edu-IT]

If you were looking to use a NAS in house then why not use the free version of Veeam for home and business users? (Non-virtual)

 

Then as a secondary you could back the NAS to the cloud. I think most of them offer this.

 

Synology can do this quite easy.

[cpjitservices]

I use deltacopy to a remote server.

[SteveBentley]

I use a service called Zoolz which is based on Amazon's storage platform. Main benefit being that it gives previews of RAW images so I can find the archived photo I want easily, although being on the glacier storage it takes a while to retrieve it.