NZ Fibre based Online Backup Solution?

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#324048 19-Feb-2026 22:04

HI Guys,

I have about 2TB of data I need to backup for my self employed business. To date I have tried various tools that do online backups like Acronis, and idrive.

Acronis was good app and everything, but boy oh boy is it slow. Leaving a computer on for 3 weeks to upload data made me give up, and their support is honestly the worst thing I have ever experienced. They have Aussie servers, but man its slow.......

I have been using idrive and the cost is good, about $75us/year and their app is great, but again upload speeds from NZ fibre is brain frying slow.

I have a new folder of 800Gb I need to do the initial upload of, and I'm giving up on idrive also... I did a speed test to backblaze server on their page, not much better.

I have full speed 1000/900 NZ fibre, so my question is: Does anyone know of a comparable service that has servers based in NZ, that has a reasonable backup app & cost but will have much better upload speed? Is there such a beast in NZ?

Why is NZ fibre so fast inside NZ, but so terrible to anything outside NZ?

I'm no tech guru, just trying to find something a bit faster.

Thanks

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#3463195 19-Feb-2026 22:13

I've used Wasabi and 11:11 for online backups (s3 clones pretty much), both Australia based and had no problems with speed, certainly nothing like 3W for 2TB. Think it's the service more than the location thats the issue.

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#3463196 19-Feb-2026 22:14

A NAS at a friend's house?

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#3463197 19-Feb-2026 22:28

coffeebaron:

A NAS at a friend's house?

I seen this as an answer to someone elses post. I like the concept, however the tech and setup might be beyond me... Also I dont expose my existing NAS to the internet as I dont need online files and just worry about security etc.

I do have a friend I can plug a server it at locally....

Does anyone actually sell a pre-made and configured NAS that might do this? How secure would that be over time? How would it work, just a mapped local drive on my PC and use something like free folder sync to backup to it?

The data is on one PC and one local NAS that has a mapped drive to the PC.

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#3463200 19-Feb-2026 22:41

I've done a NAS to NAS setup over VPN a few times. You backup to (or use) the local NAS, then connect to the remote NAS over VPN, so nice and secure. The NAS can also be set up with drive encryption etc too.

Certainly not the cheapest option, but worth considering. You could even rent some data centre space if you didn't want the remote NAS at someone's house.

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#3463201 19-Feb-2026 23:12

For sure if you are considering crashplan as a product, don't because its really slow and hammers the local SSD with writes all the time syncing block information which if you interupt seems to restart when the PC is back booted up again so it has to be on for days before it will even start to back things up IME.

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#3463203 19-Feb-2026 23:39

Have you considered just backing up to a set of hard drives, and taking one home every day and bringing the oldest one to work in the morning for the new backup? If you are not doing something like that then you should do that first, and have an Internet backup as your secondary backup. It really is preferable to be able to restore your systems at full hard disk speeds if you need to - think about the cost of not being able to run your business until the full set of data is restored to the new computers you had to buy after they were all stolen.

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#3463206 19-Feb-2026 23:47

fe31nz:

Have you considered just backing up to a set of hard drives, and taking one home every day and bringing the oldest one to work in the morning for the new backup? If you are not doing something like that then you should do that first, and have an Internet backup as your secondary backup. It really is preferable to be able to restore your systems at full hard disk speeds if you need to - think about the cost of not being able to run your business until the full set of data is restored to the new computers you had to buy after they were all stolen.

Valid Point, but to be honest for this kind of thing, all my working files are on OneDrive and NAS. Onedrive will survive a fire, NAS for PC Drive failure.

The bulk of the data is older jobs that are finished, but need to be "stored" in case we get further work on them.

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#3463208 20-Feb-2026 00:03

I have been using a Synology NAS to backup some Machines and also 365 tenants at home, Im about to setup another NAS that the home NAS will replicate to that i will leave at a friends house and that will be connecting Via a VPN.

I have found that the Synology just worked opposed to the Qnap that i had and tested, already the NAS has saved a Customer with a Critical backup that they didnt have!!

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#3463220 20-Feb-2026 07:00

Msp360 to an s3 bucket with someone like idrive e2 or backblaze b2.

Easy to setup and very quick after first upload which is usually hours not days depending on size

Currently have about 3TB on idrive and daily incrementals take a couple of mins or so for nas and desktop, and i can use msp360 to shuffle backups around my network also.

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#3463226 20-Feb-2026 07:46

I had a better experience with IDrive.

Bottom line: I'm getting a consistent 250Mbps upload speed, including a recent 3TB upload. Your 2TR upload should take about 24 hours.

That said, I am exploring the NAS option. (In my case it include 18TB internal disk for local backup and a remote toy PC (Intel celeron N3350 from 2016) running Linux and having a 18TB external disk). I'm sing Tailscale as the VPN)

In the 5 years I've been using IDrive, I only had one issue where the upload speed was reduced dramatically after trialing (and cancelling) IDrive360 for my account.

IDrive360 promises unlimited space, but the speed is terrible. So even after cancelling the trial, the slow speed persisted. It took me weeks to get IDrive support to fix it, and my recommendation to anyone experiencing this is to start with a new account. To test whether this is the issue, open a new IDrive free account and upload up to 10GB while monitoring the upload speed in the Windows Task Manager. (Note that you can set the files to upload to a size bigger than the 10GB limit. It will still upload everything provided it's uploaded at one go)

IDrive will also reduce the upload speed if the backup disk is a Hard Drive (HDD) or if the drive is external or remote. There are ways to overcome these issues, but I rather not elaborate on this here as I don't want to help IDrive developers close these loopholes.

My backup setup:

I'm using Acronis True Image 2019 to create encrypted daily backups in chunks of 1GB. This way, my data is not exposed on IDrive servers and the IDrive service can upload multiple files in parallel.

I upload these chunks daily. Periodically, I download entire backup sets and content-compare the downloads to the original files. I never had an issue!

I hope this helps the IDrive users here.

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#3463240 20-Feb-2026 08:44

Synology NAS to Synology NAS and use RSYNC to clone everything over. I use this currently. While I had to look up how to do it once setup I get a daily email saying "A Shared Folder Sync task [Sync To XXX] on XXXNAS has been completed." Zero issues so far, beyond everyone tries to attack Rsync ports, so I have it pretty strict for failed attempts and have moved to different ones.

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#3463285 20-Feb-2026 10:31

Wasabi Sydney is fast - we used to backup 2+ TB every night without issue.

There are a few of us here who will provide "onshore" backup services, but none of them are near the cheap options you can get overseas.