Offers ‘one way’ storage so the NAS can be backed up and files won’t be deleted when it’s disconnected. OpenDrive US$99 per year for unlimited storage. Other viable options that I could find are: There seem to be a few options out there if I continue run off my Macbook with the NAS as a mounted drive, but there are not many that can handle the volume of data I have and some won’t work on a Mac.ĬrashPlan, which I have now, is obviously one of them offering unlimited storage and archiving for US$60 per month. Looks like a good service but 6,000 GB is US$1199.50 per year, so more expensive than DropBox and not unlimited.Īmazon S3 will cost $199 per month based on the current amount of data I have.ĬONCLUSION: OF THOSE THAT CAN RUN DIRECTLY OFF THE NAS, BASED ON PRICE ALONE GIVEN THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE OPTIONS, DROPBOX BUSINESS PLAN IS THE WINNER AT $750 That’s a problem - if I go on holiday for 2 months, taking my Macbook and leaving the NAS at home, I want to make sure the NAS remains backed up.įor those cloud backup services that can run directly off the NAS and cope with the amount of data I have:ĭropbox Business is too expensive (for me at least) at US$750 per year because you need to pay for 5 users at a minimum, although it does offer unlimited storage.ĮlephantDrive is also out based on price. Also, data on an external hard drive is deleted if it’s not connected for 30 days. Now, my question is, what else is out there that could do the job at a reasonable price?Īre there any services that can run off the NAS directly? Is Backblaze a good 'un? It looks reasonably priced but I’m guessing I’d have to run it off my MacBook…unless someone knows (supported or not) how to get it to work off the NAS…ĮDIT: Backblaze is definitely not right for me. But given it can’t get through my data, it’s just about useless to me now. The features that I initially liked about CrashPlan is that it is unlimited at a reasonable price (under AU$70 per year), it can back up mounted drives and (hypothetically) it wouldn’t matter if the NAS isn’t connected for a while because the back up doesn’t get deleted after 30 days or such. Yep, it’s very slow, even when I tweaked all the settings to try to speed it up right at the start. However, after 5 months, it just hasn’t backed up much at all - I think less than 15 per cent. Dropbox would have been perfect and I could have run it directly on the NAS (and I have used it in the past successfully when I had less than 1TB) - but the problem is that because I have so much data now, I’d have to buy the Dropbox Business plan, which is pricey (it’s around AU$850 per year, which is more than I want to spend).Īt the time I settled on CrashPlan installed on my MacBook and backing up the NAS as mounted drives. I started looking 5 months ago and couldn’t find an option for directly backing up from the NAS itself. I’m looking for something at a reasonable cost for unlimited storage, noting that the 5TB will grow over time given that I never delete anything! If I can’t do it directly from the NAS, I can settle for running it all through the MacBook. Ideally, I want to get something that I could use directly from the NAS (rather than on my MacBook), but I note the options there may be limited. I am worried that the house will burn down or I’ll get burgled or such, so I want to back up my NAS to a cloud storage service. I have a fast internet connection - it’s FTTB and I just tested the speed at 90.47 Mbps down and 38.04 Mbps up, which is pretty typical - and I use a Netgear Nighthawk X4S D7800 modem router. I keep the NAS mounted as volumes on the MacBook Pro (noting that it drops out occasionally but not too often). The computer I use is a MacBook Pro running Sierra. The situation is that I have around 5TB of data on the NAS - this consists of home movies, photos, movies, music, time machine back ups, documents and email archives. I could use a little help finding a cloud backup service for my 16TB EX2 Ultra NAS.
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