Now, that’s interesting. Prices must have dropped considerably, and limits risen considerably, since the last time I looked in to this. I run from 500GB-3TB depending on how much I decide is important enough to back up. The last time I checked into cloud backups, even just 500GB was only available at prices that weren’t worth it. I’m still not entirely comfortable with having copies of my files in the hands of a party I don’t personally trust, but I think maybe I should revisit the idea.
I would worry about bandwidth, but I assume you’re on the same class of consumer internet that I am or you would have mentioned it, so it must be manageable.
I find it odd that you would need 500 GB before it would be worth it. I mean, 1 GB is enough to store thousands of pages of documents. I would think that even 100 GB should be enough to store at least half of a normal person’s data, weighted by how bad it would to lose it.
Yes, the reason I got interested in cloud backup is that prices finally became somewhat reasonable.
With respect to security, for most of the stuff I’m backing up I don’t care, but otherwise you can just locally encrypt and backup the encrypted files.
As to bandwidth, it’s just the initial upload that’s the problem, in my case the later incremental backups are going to be comparatively small.
Is it, now? I am at the moment setting up to backup a bit over 2Tb (yes, it’s a “T”) to the cloud, specifically Amazon Glacier.
Now, that’s interesting. Prices must have dropped considerably, and limits risen considerably, since the last time I looked in to this. I run from 500GB-3TB depending on how much I decide is important enough to back up. The last time I checked into cloud backups, even just 500GB was only available at prices that weren’t worth it. I’m still not entirely comfortable with having copies of my files in the hands of a party I don’t personally trust, but I think maybe I should revisit the idea.
I would worry about bandwidth, but I assume you’re on the same class of consumer internet that I am or you would have mentioned it, so it must be manageable.
I find it odd that you would need 500 GB before it would be worth it. I mean, 1 GB is enough to store thousands of pages of documents. I would think that even 100 GB should be enough to store at least half of a normal person’s data, weighted by how bad it would to lose it.
Yes, the reason I got interested in cloud backup is that prices finally became somewhat reasonable.
With respect to security, for most of the stuff I’m backing up I don’t care, but otherwise you can just locally encrypt and backup the encrypted files.
As to bandwidth, it’s just the initial upload that’s the problem, in my case the later incremental backups are going to be comparatively small.