There are three parts to a cloud backup system, in my opinion: ability to have the backups transpire invisibly and constantly (you don’t want to leave your computer running every night for them to happen, it should just steal bandwidth when it can), ability to restore from a backup in case of emergency, and - ideally - ability to securely access all the files you’ve backed up to their remote disk.īackblaze has you covered with all three of these, and since it supports both Mac and PC users, it’s also compatible across the wide range of systems, which is a definite benefit if you, like me, have both systems in your network. Then a friend mentioned she really liked Backblaze and I saw that they offered unlimited backup space on their cloud servers for $5/mo. I’ve looked at options, but with almost 400GB of data in my personal document folder, pictures, movies, etc., the cost was prohibitive. The solution is something that wasn’t an option even five years ago: a backup into the so-called cloud, where the data all lives in a secure data storage facility. Including the literally tens of thousands of irreplaceable photos of my children and our lives together, as well as my travels, manuscripts for my books, and much more. Worst case scenario: Someone rips off my laptop while I’m on a business trip and simultaneously there’s a fire and my house burns down. Insurance.īut my backup strategy has the same limitation of most people’s approach: if something happens to my house (a thorough break-in and theft, fire, meteor strike, etc) (alright, the last is less likely than the former!) then I’m hosed. I have a constant backup to a 500GB network hard disk via Apple’s set-and-forget Time Machine and I do manual monthly backups to a different 1TB drive, snapshots of my entire disk. Probably more so than just about anyone who reads this.
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