Yep, it’s very slow, even when I tweaked all the settings to try to speed it up right at the start. However, after 5 months, it just hasn’t backed up much at all - I think less than 15 per cent. ![]() Dropbox would have been perfect and I could have run it directly on the NAS (and I have used it in the past successfully when I had less than 1TB) - but the problem is that because I have so much data now, I’d have to buy the Dropbox Business plan, which is pricey (it’s around AU$850 per year, which is more than I want to spend).Īt the time I settled on CrashPlan installed on my MacBook and backing up the NAS as mounted drives. I started looking 5 months ago and couldn’t find an option for directly backing up from the NAS itself. I’m looking for something at a reasonable cost for unlimited storage, noting that the 5TB will grow over time given that I never delete anything! If I can’t do it directly from the NAS, I can settle for running it all through the MacBook. Ideally, I want to get something that I could use directly from the NAS (rather than on my MacBook), but I note the options there may be limited. ![]() I am worried that the house will burn down or I’ll get burgled or such, so I want to back up my NAS to a cloud storage service. I have a fast internet connection - it’s FTTB and I just tested the speed at 90.47 Mbps down and 38.04 Mbps up, which is pretty typical - and I use a Netgear Nighthawk X4S D7800 modem router. I keep the NAS mounted as volumes on the MacBook Pro (noting that it drops out occasionally but not too often). The computer I use is a MacBook Pro running Sierra. The situation is that I have around 5TB of data on the NAS - this consists of home movies, photos, movies, music, time machine back ups, documents and email archives. Large users (like you) who refer less technical friends (like yours) with less data average out acceptably.I could use a little help finding a cloud backup service for my 16TB EX2 Ultra NAS. The catch is it’s aimed at flat-rate backup for users who favor simplicity. One that’s still willing is Backblaze with their own client. ![]() Very few companies want to lose money by providing storage below their costs. Sia Decentralized Cloud is the Duplicati setting, however forum reliability reports haven’t been that good, possibly due to the sometimes-there-sometimes-not nature of their backends in spite of the redundancy. That $2 price is from their own web site, however I found other numbers on other sites that track pricing. This might bring price down from $5-$6/TB/month for inexpensive traditional storage such as Backblaze B2 or Wasabi, to $2/TB/month, however cryptocurrency (and possible speculation) is typically involved. In the realm of emerging technologies that try to undercut traditional cloud storage from companies that purchase their own drives, there’s decentralized storage such as Sia, Storj, and others that rent storage from those who have extra, and resell it (in a more presentable more-available form) to those needing it. I don’t know if this fits your usage pattern, and it can be tricky.įilter: older than x days would help with this plan, but such a filter isn’t built-in yet, so you use scripting… Possibly this would work poorly with VM images anyway (scattered changes). Some people also try to divide backup source based on use, to try to get online backup of changed files, while letting old files get a different backup. There’s also a question of how much of the 10TB backup you want to lose at once if the backup breaks. This would probably be best done by dividing your 10TB into smaller chunks, one per destination, which would be good anyway because a single 10TB backup with Duplicati might call for special care such as Choosing sizes in Duplicati so that performance (including that of recreate) doesn’t die from the scaling. If online doesn’t work, maybe a carry-it-yourself rotation of 2 or 3 drives to friend or future job would do? This can hurt the “off-site” goal unless 2/3 off-site-at-a-time is enough or you buy lots of drives to rotate. ![]() I have some really lovely friends, but not many who are truly technical…
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