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Please help me choose the right Cloud Backup Service for my
So guys, this is my situation... I have at home a Radynas 104 with 4 drives of 4TB , and I have used 80% I'm thinking on getting a new one, but thats not the question yet... Last week a drive fa...
xeltros - it is available in almost all of Europe (at least the pulldown on billing address includes them all), where are you based? To get local servers (EU) servers you might need an enteprise plan. (crashplan pro)
Torcator- It might not be easy to have crashplan back up a network drive from the mini. There is an "unofficial" method for Windows documented here: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... work_Drive I'm not sure how that would be adapted to iMac though.
You could of course back up the NAS to USB drives connected to the Mini, and have CrashPlan on the iMac back up the USB drives to the cloud.
xeltros is correct in thinking that it will take awhile to upload everything. Upping the speed of your connection will definitely help. I have a 35 mbit upload connection, though crashplan usually runs 10-15 (note I am in Boston, and use their servers in Minneapolis - both US). It took a couple of months to get ~6 TB uploaded.
Also, it is always good to know if the cloud service can read your data, and what their privacy policies are. Laws vary, and crashplan servers are mostly in the US. No matter what a provider's policies are, you should always assume they will cooperate with local law enforcement. Crashplan's privacy policy is here: http://www.code42.com/privacy/, and their encryption is described here: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... rd_Options
They say that they cannot access your unencrypted data unless you provide them with your encryption key. The algorithm they are using (Blowfish with 448 bit keys) is believed to be secure (assuming the normal 16 round implementation). US law enforcement might have some way to break it (who knows?), but normal hackers shouldn't be able to.
Torcator- It might not be easy to have crashplan back up a network drive from the mini. There is an "unofficial" method for Windows documented here: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... work_Drive I'm not sure how that would be adapted to iMac though.
You could of course back up the NAS to USB drives connected to the Mini, and have CrashPlan on the iMac back up the USB drives to the cloud.
xeltros is correct in thinking that it will take awhile to upload everything. Upping the speed of your connection will definitely help. I have a 35 mbit upload connection, though crashplan usually runs 10-15 (note I am in Boston, and use their servers in Minneapolis - both US). It took a couple of months to get ~6 TB uploaded.
Also, it is always good to know if the cloud service can read your data, and what their privacy policies are. Laws vary, and crashplan servers are mostly in the US. No matter what a provider's policies are, you should always assume they will cooperate with local law enforcement. Crashplan's privacy policy is here: http://www.code42.com/privacy/, and their encryption is described here: http://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/Lat ... rd_Options
They say that they cannot access your unencrypted data unless you provide them with your encryption key. The algorithm they are using (Blowfish with 448 bit keys) is believed to be secure (assuming the normal 16 round implementation). US law enforcement might have some way to break it (who knows?), but normal hackers shouldn't be able to.
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