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ReadyNAS cloud backup options (& costs)
My and others recent issue with bandwidth charges (which Netgear are addressing) has made me look more at the range of Cloud Storage options that can be used alongside our ReadyNAS, and the comparable costs and services of each. Whilst there are many use cases, my own requirement stems from the concern that my NAS has become primary storage for photos, videos, and some personal files, rather than a backup, and therefore I really ought to back it up. And offsite backup is good for DR.
I intially plumped for AWS S3 as I already had a free-tier account hosting a VM which I've been using for a year, so it seemed as good a place as any to start. But now I see there are similar (at least "beta"!) options for Azure (which when I've looked at VM hosting looks costly, though the comparator on Wasabi's site impiles it would actually somewhat cheaper than AWS), and Wasabi, which I know little about, but appears dedicated to storage (not VM/service hosting) and cheaper. I presume Netgear's own ReadyNAS Vault offers a comparible service to these three also.
And then there are the consumer clouds, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon Drive, where I feel the integration is more designed to operate as the cloud service being the primary storage, and the NAS then being the backup. Not that they have to operate this way, but that's how I've used them when I have. It would be nice to be able to connect multiple versions of the same cloud service when used this way... eg/ to back up multiple users Office 365 OneDrive accounts, but that's for another forum.
Anyway, I'll get to the point.... is anyone using one or more of these services to archive all (or the bulk of) their NAS, and which have you chosen and why? On face value, Wasabi looks cheapest at $4.99/TB/mo with no other costs. ReadyVault is double that, and limited to 2GB file size, which would be a problem for me.
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Personally I went with Crashplan some years ago (though I am presently running it on a PC, with the NAS connected as a network drive). $120/year for unlimited storage and no bandwidth charges.
It is fast enough to keep up with my backup churn, but I don't know how fast recovery would be. For me it is just disaster recovery, my primary backups are on other ReadyNAS.
Just responding with two thoughts, the first re: the note about ReadyNAS Vault in the original post and the second re: the consideration of Crashplan...
1. olicuk Thanks for conisdering ReadyNAS Vault. Per your comment ("I presume Netgear's own ReadyNAS Vault offers a comparible service") we wanted to clarify some similarities and some differences. Like the other services, ReadyNAS Vault (aka RNV) offers a cloud-based, seperate site solution for data protection. A quick overview is here: https://kb.netgear.com/000051488/ReadyNAS-Vault-FAQ.
But there are few differences...
Unlike the S3 and Azure solutions, with RNV you pay a single simplified price for provisioned capacity as opposed to paying only for what you use for storage, transfers, and access requests. So, it's easier to predict your monthly charge with RNV, but you may end up paying more (or less) than you would for the same amount of data stored depending on how much of your capacity you utilize and how much of the data you access.
Also, RNV offers a set of backup tools with options like scheduling, versioning, archiving, and include/exclude.
And, you can also you the RNV desktop client for adding backups from your laptop or desktop to the same account.
Hope this helps.
2. StephenB Sounds like a good option. We just want to confirm that you are referring to the Crashplan option for Small Businesses. It looks like they are no longer supporting the "Home" option (https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/) and have sold that portion of the business to Carbonite.
ReadyNAS-Vault wrote:
...We just want to confirm that you are referring to the Crashplan option for Small Businesses. It looks like they are no longer supporting the "Home" option (https://www.crashplan.com/en-us/consumer/nextsteps/) and have sold that portion of the business to Carbonite.
Yes, I am using the Crashplan Pro option for small business. I started using Crashplan for Home (back in 2012 I think), with Crashplan installed on my Pro-6. Last fall I took their deal to switch to Crashplan for Small Business, and while I was at it I shifted to running the software on a PC (but still only backing up my RN526x ReadyNAS).
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