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10TB+ Storage: Backup to the Clouds
Need a better/faster backup than Backblaze where I can backup my files and my NFS mounted files are not able to be backed up via normal Backup Software clients.
Many years, many files, I'm a Digital Horder, don't hate.
Requirements:
1. 10TB Space
2. CPU/RAM: 1/256mb
3. Static IP: Yes
4. Network Speed: 100mb
5. Price: Under $10/mo
I'd like to have:
- Encrypted File System Support
- Linux OS
What it will not be used for:
- Seedbox
- FTP share
- Private File share
Comments
TBH its impossible mate.
10TB of disk space is expensive, you'd be better off getting external hard drives and backing up to them.
Calculate USD 10-15 per 1 TB and it gets more realistic, I fear...
Nothing is impossible. Only Expensive.
I do an offline backup already to a friends house once a month as well as backblaze. I want something in the cloud.
Google offers this service for $100/month. I know there is a service out there like Google that doesn't throttle my bandwidth like the rest of the providers out there do.
Remember once the backup is complete this goes to cold storage as very little changes over time.
@Churchill I meant
Impossible.
Keep in mind Google also has many subsidized services that still generate a lot of money through the ad revenue. Google also offers Gigabit Internet Service for $80 a month, meanwhile getting 100Mbps costs an arm and a leg here in California for the Service Provider to pull the fiber cables to your office.
Alternative solutions are always welcome. Prices are negotiable. Questions, comments, and concerns are always valid.
Just get gapps for business, costs 50$ for unlimited space.
What about https://hubic.com?
Current price of a cheap 4tb hard drive is ~169 non enterprise. You would need 6 so around. 1020$. That is just for hard drives in a simple raid 10. All in all 120$ per year will not satisfy the 1020$ bill for the drives alone. Power and network on top of that and you have an impossible price point.
Good call on that. I could do that.
I've done some searching on this site and I've read good and bad things about them. Do they support backing up from NFS mounts or from USB drives? Are they picky about that type of connection like other sites? Do they throttle?
I need to know more about them from others but, yes I have looked at them, and they are on my list.
There are quite a lot of discussions here about hubic. The search function is unfortunately broken, but you could use
site:lowendtalk.com hubic
while using google and you will find many threads.
@churchill, Crashplan offers unlimited backups, Take their family plan.
hubic offers 10tb for $10/month
Kimsufi cheapo box running windows with MS OneDrive and unlimited storage from office 365?
$50 per month. 5 users. If shared, only $10 per month for unlimited space.
I think Office 365 also just announce they will give unlimited OneDrive space as well.
Oh and don't trust "unlimited". Not even from Google and Microsoft, let alone any lesser-known companies.
100 TB @ 24 USD.
https://www.mediafire.com/upgrade/
OP said:
I really doubt Crashplan will be better or faster. I was uploading 2.5 TB of data to Crashplan, it was using progressively more and more CPU, at the end it was 100% CPU of a 3 GHz core, while uploading at merely 2 Mbits or so. Apparently when uploading each new tiny piece of data it needs to check its checksum against the list of already uploaded pieces' checksums, that's how their deduplication works (and you can't disable it, can only set to "minimal", whatever that means, but it doesn't help). And when you have several TBs there, that list gets huge and slows down the whole upload and bogs down the CPU. Doesn't help that the whole thing is written in Java either.
"Unlimited" doesn't mean they will let OP use 10 TB of storage while paying $10.
@Churchill: hard disks aren't free, you are not going to get this.
Nothing wrong with unlimited except that people ignore policies and confuse unlimited with infinite. Infinite storage does not exist, unlimited just means no defined limits within the outlined policies.
CrashPlan sucks bigtime when it comes to frontend. CrahPlan's backend is solid and speeds are really good.
And yes, let me repeat its client sucks sucks sucks!
That's what. You either up your price or it's impossible unless you decide not to choose a VPS or dedicated. Your only options are like CrashPlan or BackBlaze.
(I can say that because I am looking for sth similar, only that my storage requirements are a lot lesser than yours. I just want 1-2TB and a decent - not too much - RAM and CPU with good speed - pretty much a low usage system).
Also check Amazon Glacier.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the xenstorage 500g plan at https://drserver.net/drbill/index.php?/cart/ Just order two of them and backup half your stuff to one and half to the other.
Really, are you?
And where does he put the other 9 TB? ;-)
Fixed, was responding to @Devil
Thanks but I would rather have a just one 1TB server as that would cut some hassles.
And I have actually PMed @drserver and received a prompt and proper response. I've mailed them back as they had asked for required specs. I guess I'll go with them as they said they can manage something custom as per my needs which would awesome. Also I've been hearing rave reviews about them. So as of now my options seem to be VPSDime or drserver and I am hoping for a good quote from them. The point is an archiving server needs minimum amount of CPU and RAM and if a VPS has even half decent amount of these the price would shoot up, now it depends upon whether some provider is willing to tailor a VPS suited for such customers (like me and OP and I am sure we are not the only one). Also VPSDime and drserver seem to be quite famous and reliable here.
18 more!
VPSDime storage plan has been working pretty well for me:
07:50:39 up 135 days, 1:46, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00