What is your cloud backup provider?

What software are you using to sync (mainly interested in versioning and encryption).

drmaxx wrote in post #18882791
What software are you using to sync (mainly interested in versioning and encryption).

I did an evaluation of a bunch of software, and ended up using two different pieces of software. I like redundancy - all data is stored by both pieces of software into multiple locations.

• CloudBerry backup Commercial software, fairly reliable, but the block based de-duplication is only ok. It does full incremental backups, sync, and is very fully featured. The technology is ok, and it's supported. It can store data to just about anywhere - S3, B3, SFTP, Google, Azure, etc, very flexible in that regard.
  
• Restic backup. Open source, block based, great technology. Command line, no compression, but great de-duplication. Stores to disk, SFTP, S3, B2, etc. Actively developed and community supported.
  

tim wrote in post #18883444
CloudBerry backup & Restic backup.

Can you comment on their behaviour, when the target destination is not available? How graceful do they behave, e.g. when the external drive is missing? I am asking, because I am using a laptop as main computer that is traveling a lot and needs to connect to 4 or 5 different networks. This means, any backup software that throws a tantrum if their environment changes are useless for me.

Backblaze backs up no matter what network it is connected to. You can even tell it if you want to back up when on battery power or not. If your on a network, it will back up. Maybe not the fastest in the world (Depending on network), but it works flawlessly

drmaxx wrote in post #18883479
Can you comment on their behaviour, when the target destination is not available? How graceful do they behave, e.g. when the external drive is missing? I am asking, because I am using a laptop as main computer that is traveling a lot and needs to connect to 4 or 5 different networks. This means, any backup software that throws a tantrum if their environment changes are useless for me.

I know if Restic runs and can't reach its backup target it just exits. You have to do an init before you can backup, so if it can't reach the remote it just stops.

CloudBerry not sure, you don't have to init first. It doesn't feel as robust as restic generally. Get the trial and give it a shot.

Onedrive to backup my files

Edwardl67 wrote in post #18945412
Onedrive to backup my files

A virus or ransomware could wipe out your backups very easily. Does OneDrive have versioning?

Yes, OneDrive does have versioning.. You can download any version of a file...

I use CloudBerry Backup with OneDrive and this gives me versioning also.

I use Backblaze B2, really happy, pretty cheap overall.

AS_Photo wrote in post #18963398
I use Backblaze B2, really happy, pretty cheap overall.

If I understand their pricing correctly, Backblaze charges for what you actually use, not for what you're contracted to have available.

RDKirk wrote in post #18963657
If I understand their pricing correctly, Backblaze charges for what you actually use, not for what you're contracted to have available.

That's correct for BackBlaze B2, which is cloud storage similar to AWS S3. They also have a managed backup service which charges set fees.

Looking at the various offerings. I am not sure how affective compression and dedup schemes are. Say I have 4TB of pictures. How big my first backup would be? Guess I can try by doing a backup to my local USB drive first. Software wise I tried Arq today, interface on windows 7 was bit clumsy but it worked quickly to backup my catalogs to a USB drive. I need to do couple more times and then see how easy to restore is and how well that restore works. Also trying Backblaze (not their B2 offering) and it doesn't allow me to remove my C drive.

bobbyz wrote in post #18976682
Looking at the various offerings. I am not sure how affective compression and dedup schemes are. Say I have 4TB of pictures. How big my first backup would be?

Rule of thumb for pictures (raw and jpeg): less then 5% compression gain. There might be better compression schemes out there - but this are typical numbers I see.

drmaxx wrote in post #18976830
Rule of thumb for pictures (raw and jpeg): less then 5% compression gain. There might be better compression schemes out there - but this are typical numbers I see.

Good to know this. I was reading more and Cloudberry review seemed pretty bad from this reviewer. I am not sure why it is so hard to have a nice front end on these backup softwares. Restic had good reviews but not for windows. I was trying Backblaze (not the B2) last night and on my slow upload link it does 100GB a day. It will take 30+ days to upload all my stuff. But this is just a mirror of what is on the hard drive. Currently all my pictures are < 4 TB. So for B2 it will be < $20/month. But now I am shooting 50MP/60MP bodies, thought at lower number of shots. Another option is I just make weekly backups to a USB drive and shuffle that to work. Wish I had google fiber.