Anyone reccomend a good cloud backup service

[Chris Ashdown]

As it says on the tin looking for a good cloud backup service to back up whole disk and some files from a linked drive

Looked at a few so called market leaders and they all appear to be linked together Justcloud, MyPcBackup etc

 

[estwig]

I've been perfectly happy with the MS offering OneDrive, for quite some time now.

I do backups on the fly.

 

[MikeJ]

I've been using JungleDisk for the last couple of years. Never had an issue with them.

I've no idea if they're competitive, I pay about £10 per month and it works. I'm not going to shop around to try to save £50, and not know if it's better or as good.

 

[Bob]

This week I have subscribed to Office 365
I get 1Tb of storage on Onedrive with the package and I have eventually sussed out how it works.
I wish I had done it before and like estwig I am very pleased with OneDrive

 

[KM-Tiger]

If this is business critical data, you might consider using two such services.

The way we think about it is this:

The strategy is not about how you will backup, but actually how you will restore when you need to. If, on the day, at the hour you need to restore an online service is inaccessible, then you won't be restoring anything.

Unlikely to happen? Stranger things have been known, so it's a risk assessment for your business.

Where we backup clients' data, we do so to two geographically separate data centres to give us the best mitigation of risk.

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

I use LiveDrive and have tested and used the restore a few times and it's very quick and easy to use.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

With Onedrive does it constantly keep a copy of everything or is it just a manual update when required. For instance we download orders all day long and I would like something that can keep up to date with the orders within a few minutes of them being downloaded

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

With Onedrive does it constantly keep a copy of everything or is it just a manual update when required. For instance we download orders all day long and I would like something that can keep up to date with the orders within a few minutes of them being downloaded

If it helps Chris Livedrive does

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Many thanks I will have a look at it

 

[arnydnxluk]

I recommend CrashPlan, it works brilliantly and has lots of advanced options. I've restored individual files from their service a few times, including previous revisions of files, never had any problems. I haven't done a full restore.

There's also BackBlaze which is pretty good but has less advanced options - better for those who are less technically minded and have no desire to fiddle. If you need to make a full restore and don't want to do it over the internet, Backblaze will not only mail out a USB drive (at a cost) but as of recently actually refund the cost when you return it to them.

 

[TLMartin]

Be careful with a lot of above,mixing cloud storage and online backup

Dropbox and one drive are online storage.... Any documents you store there will be backed up by the company and they also usually provide version control. However this is not properly backup as they are live documents that you use, thus subject to potential deletion, overnight etc (the version control should help you be protected by this, but they are still live documents)

Online backup is where data is copied to an online service provider but you are not using these file actively, they get updated as you update the files and again they usually offer previous versions


Personally I use Dropbox and one drive as they allow me to access my files anywhere and ease of getting files from PC to tablet

I also use live drive as that backs up all of my data files on my computer automatically (I also have a local backup) live drive is excellent and I am a reseller for them (please feel free to contact me for a quote)

Online backups very rarely backup system images as you are talking the whole hard drive, not practical for restoring (this is a local backup ideal). Online backups tend to be data files only (not system) so you select specific folders you wish to have backed up this can also extend to external drives and has drives (has often costs more)

Anything further I can help with, please feel free to PM me

Tris

 

[richb330]

Crash plan works well for backups and has a bunch of features that work in the background, such as timed backups - performing backups at specific times of the day overnight for example. You can easily limit the amount of data consumed by the backups, so if you have a VoIP for you landlines you can maintain call quality during office hours and max out your internet connection in overnight.

OneDrive/DropBox etc are for file replication, storing documents in the cloud as well as on multiple physical hosts. This isn't a system backup. If you have a corrupted file, this will be replicated to your data services and the file could be lost. the point of system backups such as crash plan is you can revert back to a point in time, not just the last backup.

I don't think OneDrive supports previous versions of the file (although dropbox does) so be aware that file replication services such as these are for convenience, not redundancy.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Many thanks for the info presently looking at Acronis but the cloud version is a bit expensive compared with some others though possibly the best

 

[TLMartin]

Many thanks for the info presently looking at Acronis but the cloud version is a bit expensive compared with some others though possibly the best

Hi I absolutely love Acronis True Image for local backups... it's what I use for most of my clients for local solutions

However Acronis, Symantic, etc cost a fortune for online backup as they deal with such small storage space 25GB which they typically offer is not a lot for personal files.

LiveDrive does the same as the above - file based backup and myself I offer completely unlimited through them to clients... we shouldn;t have to worry about how much data we use. I have clients using only 25GB and clients so far on 8TB of backup storage there... Clients with regular home PC's, Offices full of PC's and Servers. I have good prices, so again feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss more

 

[JohnGrove]

One thing to bear in mind is that Dropbox (and I believe personal Onedrive) do not store their data encrypted which is why professionals such as Solicitors are encouraged NOT to use them. If you need extra security then it could be worth looking at Tresorit and Spideroak. Both have very reasonable rates.

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Hi

Thanks all in the end went for acronis

 

[MiguelPackaging]

I use dropbox. It's not really that bad.

 

[NuBlue]

Although the decision has been made, I'll throw in my vote for OneDrive. Personally used the free version until this weekend when I bought Office365 with the 1TB. It syncs fast, so fast it flooded my fibre connection and I had to shut it down so I could surf on my smartphone. Just under 100GB uploaded in a matter of hours.

What I also learned, and the deciding factor, is that OneDrive can be connected using Webdav so I can map a network drive to Onedrive and use Robocopy to copy whatever I want from outside the Onedrive folder on my PC.

The trick is to create a folder in Onedrive then change the sync options on the PC to exclude that folder. Anything copied to that folder via the mapped drive just sits in the 1TB of storage and not sync'd back to the PC.

 

[LowPrices.uk]

I use CrashPlan here. It does its job. However, I think one potential problem is you can't easily get a restore disk from them if you are in the UK, you have to download your whole backup.

 

[Alan]

Rather than DropBox personally I'd go with Google Apps for Work - unlimited (Google Drive - with sync from PC folders to Drive) and then for belt and braces SpanningCloud backup to back up Google Apps.

That way you get all the features of Google Apps thrown in for free and a effectively a double cloud back-up with full encrption and EU safe harbour compliance etc.

Dropbox for business runs in at £132 user / year (min 5 users) - you just get storage
Acronis runs in £109 user / year and you just get backup
Google Apps unlimited runs plus Spanning runs in at £106 user / year ( of course if you don't have tons of data and don't want belt and braces Apps is just £40 per user / year )

My two pennies worth.

 

[Talay]

I use 2 x local backup in different locations and Crashplan as offsite.

I have restored from Crashplan and found it surprisingly easy. Price is next to nothing.

 

[garyk]

I use pcloud, its $3.99 a month for 500gb, previously I was using copy.com and they are folding so needed someone else.

I like the fact that pcloud uses webdav so it maps a drive to your webspace and you don't have to store anything locally, there is a sync folder so you can use it like google drive/dropbox but if you don't want to store anything locally you don't have to.

 

[Elliott Coleman]

Backblaze $50/year. Unlimited storage. Backups happen in real time.