Back up 850gb of photos-How?

securityguy

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The recommended CrashPlan looked good until I read this..

http://www.qxs.ch/2011/02/25/does-crashplan-really-offer-unlimted-storage/

I've got the graphs showing my initial upload, and I was able to saturate my connection for the duration (albeit not a hugely fast connection: Annex M ADSL2+). I've got several TB with Crashplan and it certainly didn't take two years!

There is, however, some rate limiting in the application so that it doesn't burn all your bandwidth for the duration of the upload and make normal use nasty; particularly on ADSL, solid upstream usage can prevent downloads from being able to send all their acknowledgements in a timely fashion. Particularly on fast links, that stuff needs tuning quite carefully: as well as explicit rate limiting in bits per second terms, there are caps on CPU consumption (the de-dup and compression is fairly intensive) and on some of the TCP windows (to little purpose, given memory is cheap these days). On a long fast network, such as that between a fast modern broadband connection and Crashplan's datacentre in the US, they need massively increasing: the defaults are more appropriate for a home DSL connection circa 2008 in the continental USA.

Esqui

At the risk of being chased out with pitchforks, if it's cloud storage you want, might I suggest popping into your local Currys or PC World and purchasing a Knowhow Cloud: http://www.knowhow.com/uk/support/cloud-set-up--support.aspx?country=uk


1TB for 5 years is £90 (£1.50 per month), and backs up 3 computers with web access from anywhere. It's one of the cheapest around, and backing up a Terabyte won't take a year (unless you have a very slow connection)