Posted on 02/16/2017 4:58:49 AM PST by AbolishCSEU
In light of the anti "grab your wallet" campaign, I need advise on an online backup company.
I would like to also set up a NAS for the business entity, and I'd say they have about 5 TBs of data to backup. I'd need it to be scalable though.
Any thoughts? I know Carbonite once ditched Rush Limbaugh's endorsement so they are not on my short list.
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advise=advice No coffee yet.
I personally do not use online backup as I have a NAS using ioSafe hard drives from Costco (buy the extra warranty from ioSafe and they will include $5,000 of data retrieval). There are only two of us to back up so it’s not too complicated.
Just a thought for you on your NAS mention.
The computers that I have rebuilt from online backup took days to retrieve the data, though my download speed was slower bak then.
Good luck.
If you have a large quantity of photos and videos to backup, it’s best and also cheapest to buy external HDs and back them up yourself. Otherwise try Google, Microsoft or Amazon.
I do that after coffee!!
If you back up your own data on an external hard drive, wouldn’t a ransomware lock that up too?
“Otherwise try Google, Microsoft or Amazon.”
This is a business with eight or so computers.
I would never recommend that any business use: Google, Microsoft or Amazon as a professional backup strategy.
I think Rush advertises for iDrive now.
Also checkout https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/
CrashPlan does have a free option.
If you need a powerful NAS, I highly recommend Synology. I have their 1815+ NAS, and it’s one of the most feature-packed small business NAS devices I could find. Their support is fantastic as well.
I recommend you use Glacier and backup to Amazon’s cloud. You could also use Microsoft’s Azure, but you need to have a Microsoft server presence and configure Windows backup, which I recommend if you have the money. Otherwise, Glacier has a Synology app that will do your backups for you, and Amazon’s backup is dirt cheap.
There are many personal and private backup systems you can now purchase that come with security. All they require is an Internet connection. I would never consider an on-line backup system managed by someone else. These personal, private systems are the same as cloud systems, except you handle them yourself.
Once you have gone through the third level of tech support, waited three days for your data to dribble back onto your “recovery” drive and hit the “restore” button, then you rethink the merits of the advertising blather and the actual results.
It is a combination of online and multiple physical USB drives that are disconnected from the server.
Just like basketball, bring in a fresh drive periodically and put the partially filled drive on the back bench.
You will be surprised how much businesses use Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services. Lookup Amazon S3 for example.
And if your data is too big to upload, Amazon will even send a truck to your location !
https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
The whole 5TB repeatedly, or just 5TB once and incrementals after that? If it's the former, I hope you have a really fast upload pipe, even FIOS might take quite a while.
Carbonite once ditched Rush Limbaugh's endorsement so they are not on my short list
It'll probably get me flamed here, but if I was picking a company to back up my critical business data, I would remove political leanings from the criteria. This is different from deciding not to see a movie.
Finally, I agree with some of the other posters here that you should consider a rotating hard drive backup solution. Terabyte hard drives are not expensive anymore. And it's been truthfully said that "the cloud" is nothing but "somebody else's computer".
Any backup made before the ransomware infection should be safe and usable provided you restore it to an uninfected computer.
Any backup made after the infection is at risk.
This applies equally to external hard drive and internet backups.
And it's why you should always have several generations of backups each made a day or two apart, in case an infection is discovered a few days after it starts.
I’m hoping to do incrementals
I have a home 5 TB drive for backups but also want online backup
Yep “cloud” means offsite server
yeah that is what i’m afraid of. This particular user group/small business has already been attacked by ransomware. They all have local admin (yikes) and I have to educate them on NOT clicking on something that may look like an invoice/quote etc.
If it’s mapped, there’s a good chance that ransomware will get that too. I’ve seen that happen on another small business where their server was unprotected. It was mapped and BOOM!
I also use Synology, and love it. However, I never use the cloud for any data backup. That being said, if you want high availability of data, the cloud would be the answer. I can access my NAS/server in my basement from anywhere in the world. Have done so many times, using the local Wi-Fi access or cellphone hotspot for remote desktop or direct access. Routinely backup the NAS to a separate 8T drive.
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