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Plex library backup

Hello LET,
I am trying to figure out the best way to go to back up my plex library online. Can anyone give any suggestions on a good provider? I won't be using plex to play back from online storage. I currently have just over 4TB in my media library (it will grow) stored on a nas. Location US. I will happily provide more information if I left anything out. I don't know what the typical budget should be for this.

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  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep

    I use Hubic, its SLOW to do the initial backup, but its fine for us

  • telephonetelephone Member
    edited August 2017

    @pbgben said:
    I use Hubic, its SLOW to do the initial backup, but its fine for us

    Wouldn't a restore be much slower? Is it still limited at 10mbit?

  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    G Suite business account using rclone

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  • I havent looked at hubic yet but I did look at G Suite. For $10 a month it seems like a great option however it says on their website that there is a 1TB cap unless I have 5 or more users.

  • @Macentrasher said:
    1TB cap

    Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they don't enforce that limit.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @Dextronox said:

    @Macentrasher said:
    1TB cap

    Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they don't enforce that limit.

    Yet.

    Relying on the non-enforcement of a policy isn’t a sensible backup plan.

  • @Nekki said:

    @Dextronox said:

    @Macentrasher said:
    1TB cap

    Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they don't enforce that limit.

    Yet.

    Relying on the non-enforcement of a policy isn’t a sensible backup plan.

    For a Plex backup of files that can be re-acquired at a later date I don't see anything wrong with it.

    If it's something like family videos then yeah, dumb idea.

  • NekkiNekki Veteran

    @Dextronox said:

    @Nekki said:

    @Dextronox said:

    @Macentrasher said:
    1TB cap

    Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they don't enforce that limit.

    Yet.

    Relying on the non-enforcement of a policy isn’t a sensible backup plan.

    For a Plex backup of files that can be re-acquired at a later date I don't see anything wrong with it.

    If you can just re-acquire the file at a later date, you've got to ask if it's even worth bothering with, given the lack of assurance.

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  • If the 1TB limit were to be enforced I would have to re upload everything somewhere else. I'm on Comcast with approx 30MB up and a 1TB cap. It would be a multi month upload under the best of circumstances and I would like to not have to do it twice. I appreciated everyone's input on this so far.

  • WSSWSS Member

    Is that a 1TB hard cap, or do they just start throttling?

  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    If the limit were enforced the files would still be available, just read-only. You'd be able to use a cheap VPS with a lot of bandwidth, like Scaleway, to migrate the files to another backup location rather than be required to re-upload.

    Have a lot of experience with G Suite and nothing gets deleted at all if you're paying them still. The worst they'll do is tell you to upgrade or delete stuff, but the files can still be downloaded.

  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    @WSS said:
    Is that a 1TB hard cap, or do they just start throttling?

    No cap. They say you need 5 accounts to get unlimited storage, but all accounts on the business plan get unlimited. I have one g suite account with 3 users on business, all have unlimited. I have a personal plan with 1 user on a business plan, also gets unlimited.

    Sitting at about 5TB uploaded for my Plex backup, max out the 250Mbps line on my SYS box every time it runs.

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  • WSSWSS Member

    Is that a SoYouStart, or our new contender, ServeYourSite? :D

    I just don't like my crap on Google. I have no specific reason for it- all I have are some personal photos (not porn), my blog dating back to 2003ish, and, yeah.. that's about it.

    I just don't trust it being there. No specific reason.

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  • HarambeHarambe Member, Host Rep

    @WSS said:
    Is that a SoYouStart, or our new contender, ServeYourSite? :D

    The former :P

    I just don't like my crap on Google. I have no specific reason for it- all I have are some personal photos (not porn), my blog dating back to 2003ish, and, yeah.. that's about it.

    I just don't trust it being there. No specific reason.

    I get it. I have rclone encrypting everything before upload so I just look at it as pretty affordable, fast storage for 5+TB of encrypted blobs.

  • pbgbenpbgben Member, Host Rep
    edited August 2017

    @telephone said:

    @pbgben said:
    I use Hubic, its SLOW to do the initial backup, but its fine for us

    Wouldn't a restore be much slower? Is it still limited at 10mbit?

    Its slow, more like 20Mbits but it works for me.

    I do have a platform that can do 100Mbits+ but you are looking at $10/TB/Month

  • @pbgben said:

    I do have a platform that can do 100Mbits+ but you are looking at $10/TB/Month

    That sounds like a reasonable price but it's going to be expensive for a personal library. It would already start at $40 a month with the 4TB I have now. If it were a work thing it would be a bargain.

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