Off Site backup solutions for the SOHO user. What do you all use?
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The company I work for is 4 employees that all work from home. Our computers are dual purpose for home and work use. As such they contain a lot of files not found in typical offices.
All the users have local backups running to external USB except mine. I have an old LinkStation Quad in with 4x 2TB drives in RAID10.
We need an offsite solution for out backups. I detest the services such as Mozy and Carbonite because it is a pain in the ass to force them to backup 100% of the items in the specified folders.
My searching this morning resulted in this list: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/maintenance/tp/online_backup_services.htm
I reviewed a lot of these but would appreciate feedback from others on things used.
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I know GFI Max does this now. We have also used Backblaze as well for a few customers.
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We used centralized storage for the critical stuff and BackBlaze to handle the endpoints when needed.
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CrashPlan Pro has been a go-to favorite for my remote user backup needs. It's pretty quick and simple to use. The central console is quite handy. It has an issue with open files, but otherwise works well. It doesn't do BMR, but chances are you won't be doing BMR on laptops anyway. If you'd rather backup to your own infrastructure instead of "the cloud", CrashPlan PROe would be worth looking at.
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What kinds of files are they? If you're using Office 365 why not store everything in Sharepoint? Of course that doesn't work very well for large files, but normal office docs it's probably great.
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I use the GFI Max Backup as well.
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@Dashrender said:
What kinds of files are they? If you're using Office 365 why not store everything in Sharepoint? Of course that doesn't work very well for large files, but normal office docs it's probably great.
That's our main centralized storage. It does work great.
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I use BackBlaze at home and like them a lot. I've had to download my backups after I had a drive die and everything worked perfectly.
Fun fact: Aaron McCormack went to work there after leaving Spiceworks.
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Why isn't Aaron getting them to post here then? They'd be great community members!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Why isn't Aaron getting them to post here then? They'd be great community members!
Dunno, I'll ask. I know they are involved with the reddit folks, and sponsor national backup day.
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They'd be great here and Aaron already knows everyone.
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I really like Backblaze as well and use it at home. You have no storage limits and can backup files of any size. We use a corporate account where I work and have it on about 20 workstations / laptops, and that is $50 per year per computer.
But I will say I really like Crashplan Pro too. And if you need version history storage and the ability to restore from a particular version of a file, CrashPlan is going to beat Backblaze every time. With Backblaze, you will get the latest version of the files on the machine only. The price point is more like $85 per computer per year for the unlimited storage plan.
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@Dashrender said:
What kinds of files are they? If you're using Office 365 why not store everything in Sharepoint? Of course that doesn't work very well for large files, but normal office docs it's probably great.
Because it is a mix of personal and private data. Most of the work data is going to be migrated to Sharepoint simply because I am going to do it for my own ease of use and will keep telling my boss to find my changes there until he starts using it.
I liked the looks of BackBlaze and will give it a try now thanks to everyone's reviews.
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I like BackBlaze because you just set and forget. You backup everything on the machine, you don't have to worry about missing anything.
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I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
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@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
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@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
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@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
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@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
Thanks @alexntg
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@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
@alexntg said:
@technobabble said:
I used Carbonite for small business and recently had a dual disaster. I woke to my PC's SSD drive was borked a week ago Saturday. I turned off my backup rig (PC as a backup drive) and put the drive in a USB dock and lost the partition! Luckily I had backed up the backup rig to Carbonite small business. The disappointing part is that on day 8 I am only at 82% of the 250GB drive using a 16MBs Comcast business connection.
I too am looking for something faster for retrieving an online backup.
That's one of the good things about CrashPlan PROe. You can just restore the data locally to the server or to another machine.
So with CrashPlan PROe you have a RAID backup appliance plus online backup?
The backup database sits on a Windows server, not an appliance. Your clients back up directly to the server. If you set it up for external access for remote users, your server then becomes the online backup. Hybrid backup is also an option if you want to have a "cloud" secondary backup location.
Combine this with Pertino and you'd have a cool setup.
