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Help me choose an online backup service
mouser:
One thing I'm still struggling with is that this is really my last line of defense, and i already have a backup system to version files right away. The offline backup does not need to happen so frequently. That runs counter to the way all of these processes work -- they are always running in the background eating up cpu cycles and bandwidth and uploading changed files.
I can see how that's a wonderful feature if you need it -- but if I only need a once-a-week upload for emergencies, these tools seem like they may be a high price to pay in terms of lost cpu cycles/bandwidth.
Which brings us back to Tranglos' suggestion of just using some existing tool to do an encrypted ftp backup on some schedule of my choosing..
highend01:
@mouser
What's wrong with a rsync backup which doesn't need a client that runs in the background? You decide when the backup takes place (or you can use the task planner). My rsync tasks needs about 2 minutes if there is nothing major to upload.
150gb with about 120k files in 14,5k folders
mouser:
Nothing wrong with rsync, or the ftp-based tools i already have. But that doesn't address the issue of what online storage provider to use. You say you use hidrive -- that's outside of my budget.
Jibz:
One thing I'm still struggling with is that this is really my last line of defense, and i already have a backup system to version files right away. The offline backup does not need to happen so frequently. That runs counter to the way all of these processes work -- they are always running in the background eating up cpu cycles and bandwidth and uploading changed files.
-mouser (February 17, 2012, 03:06 AM)
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CrashPlan allows you to set the backup schedule etc. for each backup set -- for instance my image folder is only backed up once a day, while my source folders are backed up every 15 minutes. I know that you can do something similar with SpiderOak -- schedule it to only run every now and then.
On my old computer (which was slow) I set it to use 0% cpu and bandwidth while I was present, which meant it only did it's job when I left the computer for more than 10 minutes.
wraith808:
I can see how that's a wonderful feature if you need it -- but if I only need a once-a-week upload for emergencies, these tools seem like they may be a high price to pay in terms of lost cpu cycles/bandwidth.
-mouser (February 17, 2012, 03:06 AM)
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With JungleDisk, though the process is running, it doesn't back up until you tell it to- it's not a continuous backup. I usually set mine to run on Sunday at 3AM or so.
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