How to you backup your home data to an offsite location?

euser1984

Currently I'm using a simple NAS that doesn't even have RAID capability, so I'm using Comodo to duplicate the data incrementally between two disks.

Shortly I will be "digitizing" all our photos and videos so I want to take a full backup offsite every now and again. Does anyone here do this?

Thanks.

28064212

How many GBs are we talking? You could sign up for Dropbox or SugarSync, you get 5GBs free space on each of them (plus an extra 500MB if you use those links). SugarSync is good in that you just select the folder you want to sync and it's automatically uploaded, whereas with DropBox, you have to put your photos in a specific folder

BopNiblets

28064212 wrote: »

How many GBs are we talking? You could sign up for Dropbox or SugarSync, you get 5GBs free space on each of them (plus an extra 500MB if you use those links). SugarSync is good in that you just select the folder you want to sync and it's automatically uploaded, whereas with DropBox, you have to put your photos in a specific folder

There's Google Drive too, handy if you already have a google account.
http://drive.google.com

euser1984

I'd estimate it to be about 120GB in total after I have everything converted...

cookie1977

28064212 wrote: »

How many GBs are we talking? You could sign up for Dropbox or SugarSync, you get 5GBs free space on each of them (plus an extra 500MB if you use those links). SugarSync is good in that you just select the folder you want to sync and it's automatically uploaded, whereas with DropBox, you have to put your photos in a specific folder

FYI dropbox as standard is only 2GB's unlike sugarsync which is 5GB's.

euser1984

I was thinking of a used tape drive from a data-center. While I think the cloud is great I'm not sure about using it for all my personal data. Is this a fair way to think?

I don't want to have to encrypt everything although I haven't checked out bitlocker which sounds good. I have a TPM in my laptop also.

cookie1977

For encryption try truecrypt. Also if you're concerned about security then spider oak might be of interest https://spideroak.com/

28064212

euser1984 wrote: »

I'd estimate it to be about 120GB in total after I have everything converted...

Ah Well, Comodo have an upgrade option with 250GB of online storage, $9.99/month, or $100/year, since you're already using it. The cheap (but not very user-friendly) option would be to just buy an external hard-drive, store it somewhere else and bring it in every once in a while to re-sync