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timmmay

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#1237372 13-Feb-2015 14:38

Based on their recommendation I got two 4TB HGST drives for my new RAID mirror.

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#1237382 13-Feb-2015 14:51

Another happy customer here. They get a +1 from me. Does what it says on the tin in a no fuss manner. I currently have something like 600GB of photos and family videos backed up with them. I used my ISPs free "after hours" metering to get all there without blowing my data cap. It took a while.

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#1237394 13-Feb-2015 14:54

I've trialled them in the past but ended up choosing CrashPlan, like having the data stored in Sydney instead of the US.

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#1237395 13-Feb-2015 14:54

sidefx: Looks interesting and some fairly big names with positive things to say in their "reviews" section, unfortunately the lack of a linux client is a deal breaker for me, since I backup from my home server which runs linux. Guess I'll be sticking with crashplan for now.

Any reason you want to move from Crashplan?

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#1237681 13-Feb-2015 23:29

42683 MB in a day is the estimate it gave me for speeds, I wouldn't consider that acceptable. Personally if I WAS going to use cloud backup, and I wouldn't for a bunch of reasons, I wouldn't have my data outside NZ.

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#1237684 13-Feb-2015 23:33

networkn: 42683 MB in a day is...

is... 42 GB a day.

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#1237685 13-Feb-2015 23:33

networkn: 42683 MB in a day is the estimate it gave me for speeds, I wouldn't consider that acceptable. Personally if I WAS going to use cloud backup, and I wouldn't for a bunch of reasons, I wouldn't have my data outside NZ.

You're worrying needlessly. The data is encrypted with a key you retain and is not stored on their system.

As for speeds. Well I have I've got over 2tb backed up there. It takes a while but the client is so unobtrusive and lightweight

You simply will never find a sustainable unlimited backup service in nz. We don't have the scale to make the business model work.

Cheers N

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#1240062 16-Feb-2015 14:38

Talkiet: As for speeds. Well I have I've got over 2tb backed up there. It takes a while but the client is so unobtrusive and lightweight

I wouldn't call the CrashPlan client lightweight. They have recently increased their memory recommendations to 1GB per TB (or per million files).

CrashPlan is so memory hungry, that only my main PC, an i7 with 32GB RAM, has sufficient memory to be able to complete my backup. As a result, I am moving from CrashPlan to cyphertite, where I have almost 3TB uploaded so far. My only concern is that they have not published a fair use figure, where CrashPlan explicitly mentions, but does not enforce, a figure of 20TB.

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#1240069 16-Feb-2015 14:47

SirHumphreyAppleby:
Talkiet: As for speeds. Well I have I've got over 2tb backed up there. It takes a while but the client is so unobtrusive and lightweight

I wouldn't call the CrashPlan client lightweight. They have recently increased their memory recommendations to 1GB per TB (or per million files).

CrashPlan is so memory hungry, that only my main PC, an i7 with 32GB RAM, has sufficient memory to be able to complete my backup. As a result, I am moving from CrashPlan to cyphertite, where I have almost 3TB uploaded so far. My only concern is that they have not published a fair use figure, where CrashPlan explicitly mentions, but does not enforce, a figure of 20TB.

Maybe it got lost in the quoting and pasting but I was referring to Backblaze having a very lightweight client.

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#1240077 16-Feb-2015 14:56

Talkiet: Maybe it got lost in the quoting and pasting but I was referring to Backblaze having a very lightweight client.

Sorry, I assumed you were talking about CrashPlan, which supports real client-side keys.

Backblaze has a significant flaw in that regard. In order to recover data which is secured using your own passphrase, you need to disclose that to them via their Website. That compromises all data stored with them.

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#1240079 16-Feb-2015 15:01

SirHumphreyAppleby:
Talkiet: Maybe it got lost in the quoting and pasting but I was referring to Backblaze having a very lightweight client.

Sorry, I assumed you were talking about CrashPlan, which supports real client-side keys.

Backblaze has a significant flaw in that regard. In order to recover data which is secured using your own passphrase, you need to disclose that to them via their Website. That compromises all data stored with them.

While at the same time making it a far more usable service :-)

I'm perfectly happy to trust them. You have to trust someone, eventually.

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