3/30/2023 0 Comments Backblaze qnap![]() ![]() My ISP speed is capped at 150meg download and 10meg upload. I actually did need to recover my OS drive and the download took near 12 hours for 140GB. The other thing is you get as much space as needed, there's no "storage cap". Was thinking about going BackBlaze, but the one thing I like about carbonite is their file structure and the fact that I can download an individual file as opposed to a whole folder. I use it for local backups + music streaming.įor offsite backup I use Carbonite. The negative is I only get 12 TB of storage in this configuration. I put four 8TB Western Digital Red Pro drives in it, set it up for RAID 10 (1+0). I have a Western Digital My Cloud Pro (PR4100) NAS. ![]() Setting up your own cloud would cost a decent amount up front, but the savings (and control) could be worth it in the long run. I agree about other services being prohibitively expensive. Thanks for your thoughts, Bobby! 24 hours for a TB ain't bad - what's your upload speed? Google will be too expensive for me and Amazon when I tried wasn't what I expected. Regarding retrieval from Backblaze, a person from work did it recently and seems happy with it. All that data gets copied to another USB 10TB drive using file copy software called bvckup2. Moved my main drives from internal to PC to 2 10TB drives in raid-1 using a QNAP USB3.2 enclosure. I have a QNAP NAS at home with 4 4-TB drives but going to clean up and use as my local backups using Cloudberry software. Takes me 24 hrs to upload 1TB which used to take more than a month on slower comcast. I finally got ATT fiber and then enabled the backblaze $6/month option. The reason they offer all that storage now is because they need our images to test their image recognition software. I also wouldn’t rely on Google or Amazon and the like, because it’s just a sideshow for them that they can cancel at any time. I’m not technically inclined enough and wouldn’t trust my setup. Never had to deal with support.Īlso never had to retrieve data, though I sometimes do check if the backup is really there. The first upload takes a long time, largely dependent on your own internet speed. Does anyone here use BB? How's your experience been?Īnother option would be to stand up another NAS/server at a relative's house in town.ĭid you ever consider running your own 'cloud'? It seems Backblaze is the next best option if I were to go to another service. ![]() Just add a new drive and let it rebuild.With Amazon Cloud Drive cutting support for third-party integration (in my case, Synology Sync) I've come to the conclusion that I need to look elsewhere for offsite backups/sync. ![]() So theoretically if I grab a ThunderBay 4, populate it with 4x8TB drives, and install SoftRAID in “mirroring” mode, I should have a chassis with 16GB capacity that’s tolerant of any one drive failing. It seems that ThunderBay is just a fancy multi-drive dock, and all the RAID stuff is handled by software (hence their SoftRAID software). I’m trying to figure out exactly how this all works though. (c) Theoretically, I’d love to be able to pull the drives out of whatever they’re in and get the data off if the enclosure fails. I know, RAID is not a backup - but mirroring and drive health software reduces the likelihood of a catastrophic failure (b) Some manner of RAID / redundancy built in. Plus DAS can be backed up with Backblaze. (a) DAS instead of NAS, as our network is primarily wifi-based and I prefer a wired connection for data stuff. I’m looking at the ThunderBay because OWC is theoretically a reliable company, and it looks like a good, expandable solution. Okay…finally making a decision on larger RAID-enabled external hard drive stuff. ![]()
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