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Cloud backup
I am considering using a ‘cloud’ service to backup my edit station. I would like to backup not only my source material but also my edit software and apps.
Should I use the ‘cloud’ for this?
Recommendations for particular service provider?
Would putting my edit software and apps on this service potentially push the costs up a great deal?
Considerations that I should think about before doing this?I currently have source material on drives duplicated so that if one drive fails I still have the material on another drive. I know, not the safest practice.
Thanks for your thoughts and recommendations.
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My contribution to your question would be to get the fastest cable modem service you can. Uploading Apps and HD media will be a lot quicker.
Tom Daigon
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I use, love, and recommend BackBlaze. Affordable, fast, unlimited storage.
Of course, bandwidth with any cloud service like this is limited — so it can take a few days for your cloud backup to catch up with you if you have a flurry of activity on disk. I am currently backing up at a rate of approximately 25 GB per day. My ISP must love me.
The most important and often overlooked part of backup is recovery. BackBlaze can recover via a web interface, or they can ship you DVDs or hard disks with your data.
I am paranoid, so in addition to cloud backup, I also backup to nearline storage on another machine in the office here, and I backup to offline storage on LTO tape.
Walter Soyka
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The bottleneck will be the upload data rate offered by your internet service provider. For example, 2mbps average upload speed translates to over 68 minutes of upload time per gigabyte of files.
It might take awhile to get all your files uploaded. After that everything should be OK if you can set the system to upload new changes overnight.
Even with the cloud it is a good idea to maintain HD backups.
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I totally agree that you should have HD backup in addition to cloud. It’s a nice secondary thing to have in case your facility is robbed or something. I use a service called Crashplan, which seems to work fine. The initial backup takes a long time – I mean a LONG time! Several days likely. It churns away in the background, but once it’s done it’s just small incremental updates. I don’t backup apps, but I suppose you could. It’s nice to know you can access your files anywhere. Well worth doing.
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Yes! Cloud backup is the perfect solution to what have been asked here. There are a couple of options which you can/may try for the subjected question. However, if you are looking for the best cloud backup option to cater your storage and online backup need, then companies like Crashplan, Mozy, Backblaze, MyPCBackup and Carbnoite would be something to rely upon.
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Walter,
Sounds like Backblaze mirrors your drives – drawback is that if the drive is external, you have to hook it up once every 30 days. I want to back up several TB that are on external drives – do you know of a service that will do this?iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7, 8 GB
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