Cloud backup

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

I currently have 2 back up drives but want to get some cloud backup to be on the safe side. I have an iMac and can get Apple iCloud with 2Tb for around £6.99/month. Looking around on the internet shows PC World have a storage of 2Tb for £40/year. Any idea on whether the PC world cloud is ok to use, safe and easy to access etc. Any other cloud storage i should be looking at, i don't want anything too expensive and would like around 2tb to cover my raw files etc.Thanks.

Box Brownie · 13 Oct 2018

markyboy.1967 said:
I currently have 2 back up drives but want to get some cloud backup to be on the safe side. I have an iMac and can get Apple iCloud with 2Tb for around £6.99/month. Looking around on the internet shows PC World have a storage of 2Tb for £40/year. Any idea on whether the PC world cloud is ok to use, safe and easy to access etc. Any other cloud storage i should be looking at, i don't want anything too expensive and would like around 2tb to cover my raw files etc.Thanks.

I have yet to 'go cloud' but backblaze gets mentioned favourably. But as I am on ADSL not FTTC it would take a very long time to upload

.so need to think carefully about that such (if possible?) to copy files to NAS and let backblaze run 24/7 as needed upload from the NAS. Though if I could find a provider that accepts a hard drive to "preload" via their service office that would be a good initiator step???

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

Thanks, i will have a look at Backblaze. Any others that are good and around similar pricing.

ecoleman · 13 Oct 2018

A backblaze user here. Great service for the money.

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

Is back blaze ok with the IOS software? I know they have a download for it but sometimes issues with IOS and 3rd party software.cheers.

ecoleman · 13 Oct 2018

markyboy.1967 said:
Is back blaze ok with the IOS software? I know they have a download for it but sometimes issues with IOS and 3rd party software.cheers.

IOS or OSX?

I use it on OSX and have don’t for the last coup,e of years now. Never had any issues.
Does it even work on IOS?

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

Getting mixed up as i was looking at another that could cover 5 devices( inac, ipadx2, macbook and laptop all in our house. I see this covers 1 device so it would be on my imac.

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

Ok just purchased black blaze on a monthly sub to see how i get on with it before buying yearly.Im currently backing up my iMac hd but can't see any info on backing up both my attached hard drives. Any info on how i set it to back both drives up automatically along with my iMac hd.Im sure there will be a user manual somewhere which i could maybe find.Cheers.

markyboy.1967 · 13 Oct 2018

Got it. It wouldn't back up my 4TB drive because it had time machine data on it, i removed the data and it will now backup the data on the drive. My other 2TB drive is set for a time machine back up now.Thanks for the help.

jwsmith · 17 Oct 2018

I use AWS (S3 with an aging policy to Glacier) partly because I could choose a London datacenter and they're not going to disappear or radically change their offering.
I guess the pricing depends on your usage pattern but I'm really just using it for cold storage, last resort and 100GB is costing around 60p /month.