![]() My S3 storage is right now sitting at around 120 GB. The WHS connector program is installed on all client computers which allows them to be backed up with the Client Computer Backup which is the same incremental image based backup system as Windows Server Essentials 2012.įor offsite storage of important data, I use the Cloudberry plugin for WHS 2011 which then backs up folders I have selected to Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage. If the main drive were ever to fail, the secondary drive has a copy of everything. The Server Backup feature does a complete backup of everything on the server to the backup drive. We utilize the server shares for our data – documents, pictures, music, videos, and general file storage. One drive has the OS partition (60 GB), and the share partition (1800 GB) and the second drive is for Server Backup. Two WD Black 2 TB drives provide the storage, which is plenty for me. Though it has four drive bays, I’m currently only using two of them. My home server is a HP MediaSmart EX485 – a lowly single core Celeron with 2 GB of RAM. Though missing some of the new functionality such as Storage Spaces, it still has Server Backup, Server folders, and Client Computer backup. WHS 2011 offers many of the same features as Windows Server Essentials 2012, but at a much lower price point. To backup and manage all of these devices, I have invested in a home server which is running the now defunct Windows Home Server 2011 operating system. Right now in our household, we have a desktop, two laptops, and a HTPC. Maybe you already do some local backups, or subscribe to a cloud backup service but what about how I backup my devices? In the interests of not looking like a hypocrite, it's likely best to detail what I currently use: Hopefully by now, you’ve given backup a good amount of thought. ![]() Also, you have to make sure that you actually store all of your files in these cloud drives in order to get the offsite storage. Just be sure that you sync your entire cloud folder to your PC that is performing the backups to gain a local backup of your cloud drive. ![]() If paired with a local backup using the built-in utilities, it could work very well. With Consumer Cloud, you lose control over the retention period for your files, and thirty days is not a huge window. So other than Dropbox with the PackRat addlon, which frankly is too expensive, Consumer Cloud is not as good as a dedicated backup system, though it is miles better than no backup at all. Packrat is only available with Dropbox Pro, and is an additional $3.99/month or $39 per year on top of the Pro pricing. But if a file is deleted and no longer in the Trash folder, it’s gone.ĭropbox also has versioning, so you can go back to the previous version or restore any file for thirty days as well, and optionally with the Packrat feature added on allows unlimited versioning and deletion recovery. Google Drive includes versioning, and again keeps a history for 30 days. Luckily in the case of OneDrive, it has a recycle bin feature which allows the restore of any deleted files, but only for a maximum of thirty days. If you were using your cloud storage as backup, you may be in trouble. For instance, if I delete a file from OneDrive on the web, the next time my PC syncs up with OneDrive it also deletes the local copy. The goal is to keep all of your files available on all of your devices. Is this not a backup?Ĭonsumer Cloud is less about backup, and more about synchronization. Everyone now has access to cloud storage, and often quite a bit of storage for free. By the way, CrashPlan for Small Business is a big improvement over the CrashPlan Home app.You’ve made it this far and you’re thinking “but what about Google Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox/etc?”Ĭonsumer Cloud as I’ll call it is changing the way we store data. Backblaze, now uninstalled, worked well, but I can’t chance losing forever a file that might be older than thirty days. Needless to say, I’ll be keeping CrashPlan for Small Business running for the foreseeable future due to their no time limit policy. I searched for, found, then restored the files. I then reinstalled CrashPlan, this time CrashPlan for Small business v6.7.0…the latest version 6.7.2. I opened Backblaze to search for the files only to be reminded of their thirty day storage limit. About a week later I noticed some photos taken on a Europe trip in October had somehow disappeared from the Photos app. With the CrashPlan subscription approaching its end, I uninstalled the app from my MacBook Pro…now relying totally on Backblaze. I installed Backblaze and also kept CrashPlan Home running…intending to let it run through the end of my subscription period. After Crashplan’s announcement last year I went through the transition from CrashPlan to Backblaze. IMHO the best option after losing Crashplan Home is CrashPlan for Small Business.
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