what are my online backup options [closed]

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I travel alot, and with me goes my projects 5TB worth. I do back up my laptop to my external hard-drive, but then I just stick the external in my laptop case - not a good situation if I ever loose the laptop. Allthough I do back up to my desktop at home it's not accessable to me on the road. In short I am looking for a backup soloution. I have tried some but man are they slow. Anybody have any recomendations?

Answer 1

The only solution is can think of, aside from carrying the data with you like you are doing right now, is obvisouly to access it online.

Given that you have 5TB of data, most regular online backup solutions that I know of (like Dropbox) simply are too small or too expensive when reaching such large storage numbers.

Since you already are backing up your data to the desktop at home, have you considered setting up a FTP server on that computer? Or maybe even using some sort of remote connection to work on the data on the desktop computer itself.

Getting 5TB of data online every time you use it is of course an overkill, but you could continue to use you external hard-drive for day-to-day purposes and each time you change the data, you would upload the changes to your home FTP server. Protecting you from dataloss in case of loss/theft/failure of the external hard drive, while at the same time avoiding endless download of data when needed.

Anyway, that's my two cents. I guess we would need further description of how you work with the data to give you a better recommendation.

Answer 2

If I would operate with such huge amounts of data (my current backup size is ~100MB, ~30MB compressed), I would certainly rent a server with a lot of storage.

But bear in mind that even having a server connected to a high-speed internet link won't suffice, because you might find yourself in a place with slow internet and that side will be the bottleneck.

Of course incremental backups can drastically reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred. But if your incremental backup size is 10% of 5TB and you're on ADSL link with maximum 1Mbps upload, that's still a lot, even if you are lucky enough to not have traffic caps.