Backup assistance

ncooper987 wrote:

StephenB wrote: My local backups actually cost more (amortizing the costs of the disks). That's a good point! But it may be a good idea to also factor in the "service delivery" and "service time" in your amortized costs. Local hardware will beat internet speeds any day and it's not dependent on an delivery infrastructure. My greatest limitation is internet speed, due to location. From a personal preference I would also rather have physical access to the hardware that maintains my data; hence a bank box (this too requires a monthly service fee of course.) It's never a good idea to keep everything under 1 roof. Cloud offerings greatest positive can also be it's greatest negative so I haven't pursued too heavily an integration yet. Positive: WIth cloud you have a large company maintaining hardware 24/7,supporting the fastest internet speeds, feature riddled, scalable, and rides on a vast network to support future IOTs integrations and "low" cost (this is true of Crash plan!). Negative: You are tied and limited that company's ability and infrastructure's ability to provide all of that. There are an astronomic number of variables, individuals and systems at play that can help or hurt. With that said I was not aware of Crash plan and I think I'll have to add it for it's Features/Cost. I also read on this forum a guide to "install" crash plan onto the ReadyNas. This would be great if NetGear would add more/better cloud based backup companies to auto integrate with their GUI.

I totally agree with all points. I use crashplan for disaster recovery only (it saves me the trouble of shuffling disks to a safety deposit box), and if I needed that recovery I'd almost certainly have more immediate concerns than recovering my NAS data instantly. It is installed on my pro-6, but if you are copying to a PC you can just as easily back up the PC drives (and avoid the linux install).

BTW it took about 10 weeks to complete the initial upload (6-7 TB I think) . At the time my internet speed was 35 mbps upload (it is faster now). Per the log, actual speeds today were ~14 mbps (136 small files - ~60 MB total) and ~50 mbps (17 large files - ~3GB total). It deduplicates and compresses so it is not always network bound - and of course it depends on internet congestion and their server loading. But it keeps up quite easily.

I haven't tried restoring enough data to have a handle on restore speed.