online backup

I am looking to potentially change my file backup strategy and start backing up files online. Of course we are talking several hundred GB. Anyone have any experience with this?

The plan is to only put the current year online then move to an off site location.

I've been using box.com. I have a 50 GB account for just my finished images. They have a pretty cool desktop app that syncs folders between box.com and any number of machines. I drop a new image in it and within a minute or so I can access it from other machines or my tablet. The sync app syncs the new image to anything running the app.

I use crashplan, paid for a 1TB HD to be sent to me, loaded all my photos and sent it back, everything new now is uploaded automatically. Works very well, and very good price. Loading the initial ~700GB online would have taken weeks, if not months, that's why I paid extra for the seeder disk service.

I use crash plan + and have over 2 TB stored and I have a local backup as well plus Acronis Workstation 11.5 with Universal restore backing up my workstation boot drive (2TB RAID 0). Just had my boot drive crash on my workstation and thanks to Acronis software and tech support the restore to a new set of drives put everything onto the new drives with no need to re-install anything. It was just like nothing every happened. Having an off sight backup of my files is the purpose of Crash Plan +. Do not rely on it alone if you have allot of programs and complex setup on a workstation. Restoring a boot drive from a file backup would be a whole lot of work a disk backup is much better for this purpose.

Crashplan usere here too. With Crashplan you can backup to online cloud and to another system. Like butterfly2937 mentioned its good for file backup but not full system image. I use Marcium Reflect for that.

http://www.jimmydrive.​com/ unlimited data $6/month

I use Pogoplug. Currently it's unlimited for $50 / yr. They're pretty much like Dropbox.

https://pogoplug.com/

Another crashplan+ user here.

I use crashplan in two ways:

1) I backup mine and my wife's laptops to the drobo connected to my desktop system.
2) I backup the laptops and the desktop (including the drobo) to the "cloud".

That ensures I have a local copy, as well as a remote copy. Total "cloud" backup is about ~700 GB.

i am a wedding photographer and i take around 50-100gb each wedding x 25 weddings a year
i use backblaze and crashplan + together
both has pro and con

backblaze
pro: backup very fast, i can upload 100gb in two days.
con: it only keep deleted files/drive for up to 30 days. so if you deleted a file from your harddrive, file will be delete in backblaze 30 days later. It goes with the extenal harddrive as well. You have to mount your drive every 30 days

Crash plan+
pro: they will keep your file forever....
con: update speed is very very very slow. I can average upload 10gb per day. 100GB take more than 8-12 days

Thanks for the input everyone... Looks like quite a few people use crashplan which is one I had been reading about. I don't intend this to be a system level backup, just a backup of important files.

The transfer times with crashplan is a bit concerning but since I don't generate 100GB a week, that probably will be ok.

Maybe I will give them a shot for a month and see what happens. I am a little hesitant to sign up for a year first although it is a better deal.

I wonder how it determines one computer, etc. I currently use a Seagate NAS for my primary storage unless I am actively working on it. Then I copy locally.

Does anyone have experience with restores from crashplan?

One more question... is there a difference in transfer speed between CrashPlan+ and CrashPlan Pro, being that Pro is aimed more towards a business?

i can't get the restore from crashplan website but i have no problem to launch the program from the computer and restore. it is plain simple.

I started the 30 day trial with crashplan last night and started my backup around 9pm local time. It has been 19 hours and it has already backed up 121GB.

Can't complain about that... so far performance has been great.