Hello, I'm trying to choose a cloud storage myself. Crashplan sounds interesting if you have large amount of data - though, how large is "unlimited"? Cloud is nothing more than "someone else's computer"; trust is very important, as Bill pointed out.
How I'm planning to do it: I bought a NAS unit (a QNAP TS431p, inexpensive but can do a lot) for main, redundant storage. With the ongoing ransomware epidemics, I want to give my PC as little access as possible to the data (which a DAS or external drives can't do). That cheap NAS has tons of neat features, I still have a lot to explore. For example, it's now getting snapshots - the ability to revert your data to just before that ransomware encrypted it. It can also detect silent data corruption using RAID scrubbing (only with non-degraded RAID 5 and 6 arrays - and some would say ZFS is a better solution), and being a NAS I can access it from anywhere (even from my mobile). It has sync folders between multiple devices - with versioning. The NAS unit itself can take care of backups, on external drives and on the cloud. As for a cloud, I've made no choice yet, I was thinking about Amazon Glacier as I wouldn't need fast data access - nor something like an "unlimited" storage. I cannot stress enough the threat of ransomware (or other forms of data corruption). Backups are useless if corrupted data overwrites good data - use backup with versioning. And use at least 2 backups - main storage, even on a NAS with redundancy, doesn't count as a backup. Have fun, Alex On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 4:50 PM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using multiple ext hard drives for my back ups mostly > phots and documents. I'm going to have to purge somethings next year, > running out of HD space probably by mid 2018 at current shooting rate. > U have everything on the Ext but would like to put it al in one spot > as well. One of our camera club members uses Crashplan but just > wondering what others can recommend to me. Crash plan does not offer > individual storage anymore just business but its $10 a month for > unlimited storage so its got that going for it. > > > Dave > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
