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Need 2TB of cheap cloud storage for my Veritas System Recovery backup
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That is certainly a concern. Obviously the cloud is the safest and more secure solution if it weren't for the performance issues in getting and maintaining the data there. The times I quoted above are based a gigabyte ethernet connection. There might be some services that are faster, but even a 100% improvement doesn't provide numbers that make sense. I think if a NAS drive failure were not part of a larger catastrophic event, I would be fine just replacing the NAS drive since I have the backups in two other locations. Catastrophic events other than a house burning down or hit by a tornado, in my experience, are generally electrical in nature like a lightning strike or a power supply failure. There are lightning strikes that even whole house surge protection may not protect you from and I have lost pc's and pc components from lightning strikes using good surge protection. My last loss was a few years ago when a power supply failed and fried all the hard drives in the system.
swarfega, I'll check out the WD My Cloud Mirror. I don't know how much data you're mirroring or how often or if that's for a drive or a system. I've mirrored drives before.
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Polar backup is cheap, maybe too much?! Lifetime 5TB for 100€, you can even grab 2x5TB for the same price.
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Plenty of cheap options for EU-based users. See this article Best Cloud Storage for Europe 2020.
HTH,
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The subscription's name today is Microsoft 365 Family, and it's for 6 users instead of earlier 5. Each user can install it on unlimited number of computers, however only five of those computers can be online at the same time. Office 365 subscriptions - On how many devices can Office be installed
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I know those recommended cloud storage solutions mentioned in article you linked to, and think that any of them would be a good solution for the OP. However, OP's budget, $60 to $70 a year is not enough, you must be willing to pay almost double of that.
Kari
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My issue now is finding a cloud storage service that offers the kind of performance that will work with the files sizes I'm dealing with. At this point I don't think it will be possible to find a cloud service that will work.
When I started this thread, I was looking for cloud storage to store my Veritas full and incremental image files, full backups which range from 53 gb to 300 gb for each drive and run weekly, and incremental backups which can be as much as a 2 - 4 gb for each drive daily. Based on the fastest service I can find so far my full backups would take 1.25 hrs, 5 hrs, 7 hrs, 2 hrs and 4.25 hours respectively to transfer to the cloud and as much as 45 mins for each incremental daily. Veritas currently performs the backup to an internal SATA drive and then copies the backup to an external USB attached SATA drive. My idea was to then have Veritas copy the backup file to a cloud service as part of the backup job.
A NAS drive would provide another layer of protection in addition to my internal SATA drive backups and my external USB attached SATA drive backups but it does not provide any protection in the case of a malicious attack like ransom ware, so I need to step back and rethink the situation.
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Idrive, you can even use you're own encryption key. It scoops up precious files in real time. No backup does everything, but my files are safe and sound either way. It doesn't slow my computer down at all, and I'm only running an Intel i3, it does slow my connection speed slightly if im browsing the web while it's backing up files, but that's it.
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