[SML] Backup

[Brian Munroe]

I wouldn't trust a service like dropbox to be an exclusive backup plan. A corrupted or deleted file on one device will migrate to all devices.   I do use onedrive to synch my active files between devices and it works great for that. 

I have a NAS (WD myCloud) for onsite backup of 4 machines and also use crashplan home to backup to the cloud and (occasionally) to a usb drive. 

So i am also looking for a crashplan alternative. 

Brian Munroe
 

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> On Dec 5, 2017, at 11:00 AM, NODEraser via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Bill Conner via Stagecraft
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote that I can
>> Crash Plan was recommended here as a great back up program.  It has seemed
>> very good, never having a need for recovery, so thanks to whomever
>> recommended it. But they are discontinuing the "home" account and the
>> business level us a little pricey for one individual IMHO.  So, anyone found
>> another good service?
>> 
> 
> I had been using CrashPlan to achieve paranoid redundancy, backing up
> to my local NAS as well as an off-site NAS with family members halfway
> across the state. Because this relied on two computers to be up and
> syncing, it took a bit of maintenance to keep everything flowing
> properly. I was already using Dropbox to synchronize files between
> computers, with 1 TB of cloud storage, so I finally decided it was
> easier just to stick with that and dismantled the CrashPlan scheme.
> I'm not even backing up to my local NAS; I figured that just having my
> files synced across multiple devices is good enough for redundancy. I
> suppose things could go wrong if some malicious party decided to do
> something nasty to the Dropbox servers, but so far I've been able to
> keep my files together dating back to 2002 using a number of different
> schemes that have not failed yet. Yet.
> 
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