cloud storage…

[khushy]

Hi

Living in the country, we have never had broadband that works at a decent pace - UNTIL NOW - with full fibre to the house just gone live - we are at 500Mbs!!!

Have successfully used dropbox for over 20 years and I have now gone all-in with dropbox - all our files, all our photos, music, memories and everything - obviously I have a locally sync'd copy of all our data as well but I want to make 100% certain that I am covering all and every single data-loss eventuality - so . . .

\I have a google drive and a one-drive which I want to use for copying everything too as well - I can get the right amount of storage with both and I have tested both - they seem to work well.

My plan is to have 3 copies of everything - in 3 different places.

Has anyone got any tips/comments that I should be looking out for - we are currently at 2TB of precious data.

[eeLee]

what devices do you have in the house and with how much storage?
what do you think you need to protect against?

[alock]

khushy said:

...we are currently at 2TB of precious data.

Why is it precious?

Do you want your next of kin to get access? Do you expect them to trawl through all 2TB?

[Robbidoo]

3 cloud providers seems like overkill but you do you.

Get a NAS in your house - have all your data on it, and configure it to back up to dropbox, google etc. That way you don't need to keep checking the status of all the laptops, leaving them on overnight etc etc

These guys do decent ones: https://www.synology.com/en-uk/products/DS423

[somouk]

I use a Synology NAS, it synchronises all my cloud data to it, then has a backup drive local I can remove when we are away on holiday and store offsite.

It also then synchronises to the synology backup service just for good measure.

[khushy]

Ive signed up for a sync account - 6TB for $20 a month

FYI - most of the data is photos and videos - very precious

I now have dropbox and sync as cloud storage - sync mirrors dropbox - all saved locally on a G-RAID nas thingy

Now feel its sorted and future proofed

Thanks