Suggestions for a reliable Cloud backup solution - FreeNas / Nas4Free

Wayne Davis waydavis at centurylink.net
Fri Feb 22 12:13:23 MST 2013


That IS noteworthy.


On 02/22/2013 11:39 AM, Eric Cope wrote:
> Since we are talking about cloud backup solutions. I just had an 
> interesting experience with Crashplan that I will share.
> Crashplan offers a seed service, where you can request an external 
> hard drive be sent to you, you put all of your data on it, and mail it 
> back. It can be faster than waiting to upload everything. 
> Additionally, if you need to recover, then can send you the hard drive 
> with your data on it for fast recovery.
>
> So, I received an email from Crashplan that my data was on a corrupted 
> disk volume. They are working to recover it, but until then, they are 
> backing up all of my data to another disk. In addition, they offered 
> this seed service for free since their volume died.  I have additional 
> backups so I am not concerned regarding data loss or slow uploads, but 
> its cool to have a slick method of seeding your data.
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>


Anyone have experience with FreeNAS or Nas4Free?   Thoughts on those?


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