I’m using a Synology NAS, and currently I’m using their C2 cloud service. [quote=“jph, post:37, topic:86410”]
What do you use to cloud backup NAS-sized amounts of data for a reasonable price?
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I’ve got 2TB of ‘backed up’ data, mostly photos/videos going back 10 years, plus a lot of random documents that I’ve never sorted. It’s definitely not ‘data hoarder’ levels of data, but still enough to want it to be secure. (Being a bit selective with what I backed up - there’s plenty of stuff that isn’t the end of the world if I lost it)
I’ve been using Synology’s C2 (I went with their NAS) - and it’s like £6/TB/Month.
Benefit is I can set up a backup frequency and I get ‘time machine’ style history of it.
All the stuff on my phone syncs to my NAS, and 3x a week my NAS backs itself up to the cloud.
It also depends on what you’re backing up and why / how likely you are to access it in future.
I’ve seen plenty recommended that have super cheap upload costs / TB, but very very expensive to download it again. So it seems a good compromise.
It was a Synology DS218+. Bought around 6 months ago for about £300.
I spent a lot of time trying to decide between models, and number of bays. I did consider a slightly higher spec’d 4 bay for optimising the RAID set up, but figured I was going a bit overkill.
If I were planning to use it as a media server though, I would have probably gone for the 918+
Ah, that’s not going to be an option then! I can’t really afford well over £3,000 a year just for cloud backup!
Synology is good hardware but massively overpriced compared to unraid. Seems the cloud backup ain’t cheap either! Agree though that glacier is also not an affordable option.
rclone seems it will do the job more efficiently and for much much less with the freedom to choose one/many cloud providers.
Ahh, looks decent. I’m in a similar situation with a bunch of drives (anything between 250Mb and 500Gb) spread around the place, and piles of (probably decaying) CD-Rs that I’ve already started copying to yet another drive. A NAS coupled with a cloud backup service looks to be a good idea for consolidating everything, so I’ll investigate those options. Thanks
(If I had to guess, I don’t think I can have more than 8Tb all told, and half of that is probably stuff duplicated across more than the one drive or just plain not worth keeping! But has always been hard to audit properly when multiple drives are involved.)
Well if you do go for one, that 8TB hard drive Simon B posted is a good shout
I had the same issue with all of my stuff. Random drives, some with various OS’s photo libraries… (Picasa, iPhotos and Photo library, and multiple libraries of each), then a load of random photo files with no structure.
The thing I found super useful was just syncing everything to one photo structure and it worked really well.
And did the same for all my iPhone photo libraries - all now in one place.
@jph - depending on your needs, you might be better off with a 2nd, offsite back up to another NAS, rather than a cloud one?
Anyway, gonna stop spamming about NAS now as it’s wayyy of topic.
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