Cloud backup

Wow, this service is ultra cheap. I have not seen anything like this low price so I would have to say you will get what you pay for.
I would encrypt all the files being stored and also take the risk of the data being dispensable.
I think I will use this for my secondary or tertiary backup plan.

Reading some of the reviews, including the reviews of the parent company, severely dampened my joy when seeing the price structures. Also have a read of their T&Cs and 3rd party data sharing, IF I use them, it will be with a spam email account, and I won't be passing on my cell number or home address.

I've done a huge hack on my (nice shiny new) NVX, and installed the fuse filesystem driver. Then the S3 filesystem on top of that, and I can now backup to Amazon S3.

So far this is costing me about $2.50 / month - my main use is to backup my subversion s/w development repository, and all my family digital photos. This totals about 30GB.

The downsides: You have to hack the ReadyNAS, and you (so far) have to invoke the backup to Amazon S3 manually from the command line. One day, given sufficient time and enthusiasm I'll get it all integrated into Frontview using the developer kit APIs, but that might be a way off yet.

@quickly_now - would be interested to see how you progress with the S3 setup, and particularly what you use for the backup itself. I've looked at it and although I'm not adverse to customising my NAS, I felt that was a little too far to go and instead have been looking for something more "self-contained"

As an alternative I'm currently experimenting with CrashPlan (Doing the 1 month free trial to their 'Plus' service). It appears to work very well plus ticks some major (for me) check boxes

- Not expensive (perhaps not as cheap as S3, but <$5 per month)
- Good Canellation policy (you pay up front, but unused months will be refunded)
- Encryption - you have the option of managing your own keys
- Simple GUI - java and web based - for managing the backups
- Notification - regular emails allowing a 'set it and forget'

I'm currently playing with restore, but overall the service seems impressive and is *very* easy to install on the NAS if you have even a minimum of command line skills

Downside - being java based means it is for x86 NAS only

+1 for Crashplan.

I have had this running on my ReadyNAS Pro for 6 months... have 4+TB backed up to the cloud and paying <$3 a month.

Their TOS seems to be one of the best with regards to privacy.

+1 for Crashplan.

zackiv31 wrote:
+1 for Crashplan. I have had this running on my ReadyNAS Pro for 6 months... have 4+TB backed up to the cloud and paying <$3 a month. Their TOS seems to be one of the best with regards to privacy.

This does look like an interesting one to use.
so are you using the ftp, rsync or some other method for doing the backup???
Have you automated the backup??

Is you see I have a readynas NV would I be able to get the Crashplan client to run on this unit??

CrashPlan uses a proprietary backup engine running on the NAS that you access via a client installed on your PC/Mac - however as I stated "being java based means it is for x86 NAS only"

Example:

im sorry if i steal this tread a bit, but i was thinking it was uneccecary to start a new topic with the same question.
the diferece in my case is that i have a readynas duo, and i was wondering if i can istall some sort of software in my nas so i can automaticly backup the nas to the chrashplan server?

lefjomp wrote:
i have a readynas duo ... can istall some sort of software in my nas so i can automaticly backup the nas to the chrashplan server?

No - "being java based means it [CrashPlan] is for x86 NAS only"