Suggestions for a reliable Cloud backup solution - FreeNas / Nas4Free

[Michael Butash]

Amateurs.  Crashplan without a crashplan, or just shitty infrastructure. 
  Fire someone.

Thanks for sharing some reality!

/me mentally scratches crashplan from existence

Personally it's hard to want to replicate my personal data with an 
external entity in most ways or forms.  I played with spideroak (decent 
linux client), but don't use them for anything really.  I don't 
replicate data that isn't within my admin control or across a vpn.  Not 
to mention wanting to pay for off-site replication of tb's worth of data 
"securely" with guise.  Most will answer a subpoena in 2 seconds with a 
disk image of your all your data on it, and that is not cool.  Sadly 
it's simply a matter of paying someone enough to get it, and there are 
far richer than myself seeking fun and profit.

Dealing with enterprise network, storage, or whatever for a bit - shit 
happens.  Replicate your data, trust nothing but yourself.

Almost why one might keep a small ebay'd data center around, just in 
case.  Two, if you got em.

-mb


On 02/22/2013 12:13 PM, Wayne Davis wrote:
> 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
>>