Octopus Overlords

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 1:51 pm Hmm, that is something I need to consider before picking one. I think the Wirecutter review (or maybe Reviewd) compared upload speeds between the offerings. Should go back and look at that.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:02 pm Wow, now I am considering iDrive instead. They also offer a special rate to previous Crashplan users, 5TB for $7 for the first year. Not bad!!

Punisher wrote:The company I work for does support for a lot of different companies. Some of which use Crashplan. We have taken to calling it Trashplan... Have had multiple issues including being unable to restore some files that the software said was backed up, but wasn't..
YMMV

RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 10:09 am 65% success rate at what?

The one problem I’ve been having is on my wife’s computer, the backup service doesn’t want to start when the machine starts. So if we lose power or something it doesn’t start backing up again until you manually start the service. It’s set to auto-start so I’m not sure why it isn’t but it’s annoying me.


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naednek wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 2:12 pm does Idrive let you backup files locally and the cloud? Or is just cloud only?

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:06 pm I have had some issues recently with them, but not related to an actual recovery. One of the things we do is to review the various backup solutions our clients have to determine success rate for a 30 day period to see if it is working. First off, their actual logs are horrible and difficult to sort out for actual success rate. From what I gathered at the time there was about a 65% success rate so that's not too good. Other than that, My info is 2nd hand from other IT people in the company that just have not had many good experiences dealing with it.

wonderpug wrote: ↑Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:32 pm

Punisher wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2018 7:06 pm I have had some issues recently with them, but not related to an actual recovery. One of the things we do is to review the various backup solutions our clients have to determine success rate for a 30 day period to see if it is working. First off, their actual logs are horrible and difficult to sort out for actual success rate. From what I gathered at the time there was about a 65% success rate so that's not too good. Other than that, My info is 2nd hand from other IT people in the company that just have not had many good experiences dealing with it.

How much total data were you backing up? After a while with CrashPlan I had issues with never reaching 100% of my files backed up. Reached out to support and it was because I was over some threshold of data capacity (1TB? 1.5TB?). They helped me change some setting and then everything worked fine after that.

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:29 pm So far I've uploaded just under 100 GB out of 760 GB in about 48 hours. This morning when I checked, the upload speed was pegged at 4.1 Mb/s, which is a bit better than the 4 Mb I'm paying for. Only 3500 files are left to upload. If the speeds hold, I could be done in 12 days rather than 32 (or the 531 I was originally quoted).

stessier wrote: ↑Sat Jan 13, 2018 5:52 am

stessier wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2018 1:29 pm So far I've uploaded just under 100 GB out of 760 GB in about 48 hours. This morning when I checked, the upload speed was pegged at 4.1 Mb/s, which is a bit better than the 4 Mb I'm paying for. Only 3500 files are left to upload. If the speeds hold, I could be done in 12 days rather than 32 (or the 531 I was originally quoted).

319 GB left to upload. Progress.

naednek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:15 am GRRR. For the life of me, I can't recall my masterpassword for idrive. And they do not know (as expected) but it be nice if they had a hints page. It also would have been nice for me to have written it down. I just got everything uploaded and even had some overages on my comcast allotment all for nothing.

naednek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:15 am GRRR. For the life of me, I can't recall my masterpassword for idrive. And they do not know (as expected) but it be nice if they had a hints page. It also would have been nice for me to have written it down. I just got everything uploaded and even had some overages on my comcast allotment all for nothing.

Punisher wrote: ↑Tue Apr 10, 2018 7:58 pm

naednek wrote: ↑Sat Apr 07, 2018 11:15 am GRRR. For the life of me, I can't recall my masterpassword for idrive. And they do not know (as expected) but it be nice if they had a hints page. It also would have been nice for me to have written it down. I just got everything uploaded and even had some overages on my comcast allotment all for nothing.

Cant you reset it?

Lorini wrote: ↑Wed May 16, 2018 3:54 pm I need offline storage. I have two external hard drives, one to be used as a backup of the other. I don’t need or want cloud storage. Is IDrive the only solution? I feel like I’d be overpaying as I don’t need cloud storage.

wonderpug wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 12:11 pm Are RAID setups still a thing people do? I might be behind the times, but in the olden days I thought that was the best way to mirror a drive for backup purposes.

Lorini wrote: ↑Thu May 17, 2018 5:07 pm Yes storage space looks right, but unfortunately Win10 suddenly decided that my second disk wasn't formatted, even though I copied a ton of stuff to it this morning. Sigh.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:52 am So, what is the go-to for a hands-off, lightweight cloud backup option these days?

What I really want is just to:

1. Back up a couple of specific, small folders (my 'checkbook' and a couple of other important private documents, a bunch of configuration files for things that I don't want to reconfigure from scratch if there's a hiccup, etc) on a regular basis.
2. Do so without backing up every file each time - only the changed/added files.
3. Lightweight. Preferably something that runs once, checks and updates, then goes away and doesn't run in the background.
4. Hands-off. I don't want this process to be reliant on me remembering to manually run it every day.
5. Free or cheap, and not subscription-based.
6. Preferably the ability to access the files from elsewhere if I need to.

I've been using Google's Backup & Sync, but they've updated the client to a new version that's using even more resources. I don't really need the files to sync in real time, just once a day and then go away. Besides, I'm stuck with gmail, but other than that I've been gradually getting Google out of my life, so now seems like a good time to switch.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 11:52 am So, what is the go-to for a hands-off, lightweight cloud backup option these days?

What I really want is just to:

1. Back up a couple of specific, small folders (my 'checkbook' and a couple of other important private documents, a bunch of configuration files for things that I don't want to reconfigure from scratch if there's a hiccup, etc) on a regular basis.
2. Do so without backing up every file each time - only the changed/added files.
3. Lightweight. Preferably something that runs once, checks and updates, then goes away and doesn't run in the background.
4. Hands-off. I don't want this process to be reliant on me remembering to manually run it every day.
5. Free or cheap, and not subscription-based.
6. Preferably the ability to access the files from elsewhere if I need to.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:20 am AB’s post above didn’t help?

Also, dude, have you been asking this question without committing to a solution for 8 years?

If so, have you considered the possibility that *exactly* what you want doesn’t exist and you will have to settle for one of the existing solutions?

No snark meant in that at all, but I think I know your brain a little bit from what you’ve shared over the years.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 10:02 am Coming back to this. I still need a solution. I have a ton of space already on Google Drive, and don't want to pay rent on someone else's server for space. I just want a tool that will move the data from my system to Google Drive.

I'm not a business, so I don't need anything super complex. And the stuff I'm backing up isn't anything that I'm all that worried about privacy on. I just want to be able to back up projects in case I lose a drive or something gets corrupted, and do so without wasting system resources and without babysitting (IE - I want it to run once a day, automatically, and then exit.) I'm still using Google Drive, and it's a blunt instrument. It can only back up whole folders (it can't exclude folders), and getting it to run once automatically, do its job, and then exit requires way more system gymnastics than I prefer.

syncdocs.com wrote:Enhance Google Drive

• Sync any folders to Google Drive, not just the one folder Google’s client offers.
• These folders can be anywhere on your PC, network or even an external drive. So you have the freedom to make Google work the way you want it, and not be forced to use another folder structure.
• Better privacy and security. Sensitive materials are automatically encrypted online.
• Access all your files offline. Unlike Google’s client, all files are copied locally. This means you have a complete backup, and you can edit these files when offline. When you go online again, your changes are synced.
• Sync multiple accounts at the same time. Keep your home and work and Google Apps accounts all in sync at the same time!
• Install without Administrator permissions – powerful automated deployment scripts help you roll out and pre-configure Google Drive to your users.
• Schedule Google Drive backups – backup once a day if you want. Your Google contact list is backed up too!
• Full control over sync direction – upload, download or both
• Maintain Google access rights on Windows – files you share without edit permissions stay that way.
• Shared files are also synced – Google Drive won’t sync files that others share with you, Syncdocs lets you choose.
• Facebook, Twitter and GMail file sharing – simply click on a file or folder to share it.
• See what’s going on – Syncdocs shows you the full status of the current sync. No more wondering how far you are from done.
• Smooth desktop integration

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:52 am

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Tue Dec 28, 2021 11:20 am AB’s post above didn’t help?

Also, dude, have you been asking this question without committing to a solution for 8 years?

If so, have you considered the possibility that *exactly* what you want doesn’t exist and you will have to settle for one of the existing solutions?

No snark meant in that at all, but I think I know your brain a little bit from what you’ve shared over the years.

Eight years? Three months. My first post in this thread (seven years ago) was for a completely different type of problem. I posted again four years ago, found a solution, used it until my needs changed, found a different solution (without coming here), which was discontinued three months ago.

And yeah, there won't ever be a perfect solution. But everything I've looked at is either A) designed for businesses and IT people to back up whole drives and leave running all the time, B) involve huge subscription plans, or C) are command line/scripting based like it's 1995. I need to automatically backup two folders, under two gigs total, once a day. And I don't need it running other than that, eating up system resources. Google's Backup & Sync let me do that. They 'improved' it by taking away all of the controls. I keep finding Google Drive cranking my disk usage when I was right in the middle of something, slowing it to a crawl in order to keep me synced 24/7, which I don't need. And one of the folders that I need backed up includes two huge, many-gigabyte cache folders that I don't need backed up. Google drive doesn't allow you to exclude folders. It's all-or-nothing.

So I came looking for something simple. Searching turns up hundreds - literally hundreds - of backup solutions. I was hoping to narrow that down. So I asked. I got one response. And I appreciated Anonymous Bosch giving suggestions, but they're extremely limited by his views on privacy, which I don't share. After three months, I thought it was reasonable to ask again.