Cheapest Way to Backup Photos and Videos To The Cloud

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What is the Cheapest Way to Backup Photos and Videos To The Cloud?
I need to cover about 2TB of data.
Thanks in advance

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  • Neil_Jones
    Neil_Jones Posts: 8,953 Forumite
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    Will probably be cheaper to get a 2Tb external drive to be honest.  2Tb Desktop drives showing on Amazon £45 , or portable ones from about £65.

    You can get 1Tb cloud storage per person (up to 6Tb) with office 365 Family, at £80 a year.
  • Vitor
    Vitor Posts: 57 Forumite
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    Amazon's S3 Glacier Deep Archive is likely the cheapest per TB per month, but they'll bill you to download the backed-up data if you lose the primary store.
  • victor2
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    Look at iDrive. 5TB of storage currently on offer for US$69.95 for a year. Normally $99.50.
    I've used their free plan for daily backups for a few years.It's very good, only backing up what has changed, and you only use however much space the latest file takes up, not what earlier versions are using.It claims it stores up to 30 earlier versions of files, but I only see 10 of a file I update daily (maybe that's a limit on the free version).
    It works well and I run a scheduled job every night to backup specified directories. It's all encrypted too.

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