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What storage cloud do you use?
Feb 1, 2020 11:19:57 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Every file you move to the cloud will have a touch of grey ...
(and they are saved for a cloudy, rainy day.)
Feb 1, 2020 11:21:36 #
srt101fan wrote:
Only if they're OLD files.....😕
Wait, I resemble that remark.
Feb 1, 2020 11:22:33 #
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all ...
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all ...
Feb 1, 2020 11:23:49 #
Longshadow wrote:
Carbonite is my disaster recovery, like if my PC and BOTH of my local backups blow up.
That would be a disaster!
For "operating" backups I would just use local ones.
But I don't have the intentions of using them as "working" backups.
That would be a disaster!
For "operating" backups I would just use local ones.
But I don't have the intentions of using them as "working" backups.
I also use Carbonite. One time I had to restore everything from Carbonite to a new laptop ... took FOUR days. That’s when I also started backing up locally.
A real benefit for me was when I was working and on vacation I only took my iPhone. A few times I was contacted by business associates, looking for certain documents and spreadsheets. Using my iPhone and accessing my Carbonite account with it, I was able to send those files from Carbonite. It’s a great Cloud storage solution.
Feb 1, 2020 11:29:23 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all ...
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all ...
...red is gray, and yellow white,
but we decide which is right,
and which is an illusion.
Feb 1, 2020 11:44:46 #
davidbrok5 wrote:
I’m looking to back up photos personal photos, both from my laptop and phone. I want to have folders I can neatly organize and access to them from an app at any time. I don’t want them using my phones storage and also don’t want every picture I take to automatically upload, only when I manually do it. I have an iPhone and a ten year old MacBook Pro that all my photos are currently on. I wouldn’t mind paying a small monthly fee.
I bought a Western Digital "My Cloud". It is a automatically mirrored set of network attached drives that I can access from anywhere on the internet. I bought the 8 TB version so I have 4TB of drive space backed up. You can get them in varied sizes. You have total control over who has access and the like. No monthly fee at all. Lovin them. I bought the Ex2 Ultra box from B&H, they had a great tax and with Payboo, I could the tax value discounted!
http://mycloud.com/#/
https://shop.westerndigital.com/c/nas-and-cloud-storage
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1224323-REG/wd_wdbvbz0080jch_nesn_8tb_my_cloud_ex2.html
Update - and btw, I have the cloud as a network drive on my machine so when I'm home, it's like have a file server and its wicked fast as though its locally stored. Online anywhere once you log in you can access, download or upload to your own cloud.
Feb 1, 2020 11:57:42 #
Pumble wrote:
I bought a Western Digital "My Cloud". ... (show quote)
From anywhere as long as your computer/internet is working.
Probably not from your neighbor's house if your house is on fire.
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Feb 1, 2020 11:59:36 #
Homie, I'm too high in the clouds to ever have to worry 'bout that ...
Feb 1, 2020 12:02:29 #
Pumble wrote:
I bought a Western Digital "My Cloud". ... (show quote)
That’s a very interesting solution and something I may consider when my current NAS system gets full. I noticed that it is only $10 more to get 12 TB over 8 TB. I would invest in a third drive to store offsite for a disaster backup.
I don’t quite understand how the data can be accessed ANYWHERE there is an internet connection when the unit is only plugged into the local WiFi modem. I read the specs on the device but the answer was unclear.
Feb 1, 2020 12:05:48 #
davidbrok5 wrote:
I’m looking to back up photos personal photos, both from my laptop and phone. I want to have folders I can neatly organize and access to them from an app at any time. I don’t want them using my phones storage and also don’t want every picture I take to automatically upload, only when I manually do it. I have an iPhone and a ten year old MacBook Pro that all my photos are currently on. I wouldn’t mind paying a small monthly fee.
Backblaze and an external HD
Feb 1, 2020 12:09:35 #
Fredrick wrote:
I also use Carbonite. One time I had to restore everything from Carbonite to a new laptop ... took FOUR days. That’s when I also started backing up locally.
A real benefit for me was when I was working and on vacation I only took my iPhone. A few times I was contacted by business associates, looking for certain documents and spreadsheets. Using my iPhone and accessing my Carbonite account with it, I was able to send those files from Carbonite. It’s a great Cloud storage solution.
A real benefit for me was when I was working and on vacation I only took my iPhone. A few times I was contacted by business associates, looking for certain documents and spreadsheets. Using my iPhone and accessing my Carbonite account with it, I was able to send those files from Carbonite. It’s a great Cloud storage solution.
Many people don't realize that 250Gb over the net through an encrypted router takes a LONG time.
One doesn't get 100% contiguous time to do the transfer over the net, your information is transferred via time slicing, just like everyone else's information. Even transferring files from one of our computers to another, just through our router, takes time.
For MANY files, it's quicker for me to copy the files to a thumb drive and sneakernet it to the other computer.
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Feb 1, 2020 12:24:35 #
GrandmaG wrote:
That’s a very interesting solution and something I may consider when my current NAS system gets full. I noticed that it is only $10 more to get 12 TB over 8 TB. I would invest in a third drive to store offsite for a disaster backup.
I don’t quite understand how the data can be accessed ANYWHERE there is an internet connection when the unit is only plugged into the local WiFi modem. I read the specs on the device but the answer was unclear.
I don’t quite understand how the data can be accessed ANYWHERE there is an internet connection when the unit is only plugged into the local WiFi modem. I read the specs on the device but the answer was unclear.
It opens a port on your router that allows traffic in and out of your internal network. That is great for accessibility but degrades perimeter security. There are ways to obfuscate traffic, but that is another discussion and thread.
Feb 1, 2020 12:25:23 #
Feb 1, 2020 12:28:15 #
CHG_CANON wrote:
Doin' fine up here on cloud nine
All these files, none of them mine
All these files, none of them mine
Feb 1, 2020 12:39:24 #
Longshadow wrote:
From anywhere as long as your computer/internet is working.
Probably not from your neighbor's house if your house is on fire.
Probably not from your neighbor's house if your house is on fire.
The MyCLoud does not require a computer to operate, it sits like a mini fridge just running. I have mine set to spin the drives down if I don't use it over a certain time. I also have it set to automatically power down at midnight and turn back on at 8am.
As to the internet and fire silliness, I suppose I could say the same for anyone's facility. The reality is unless it is a matter of life and death, we simply are annoyed but not put out by the occasional internet or power outage. As to theft, well that would be a problem, and one could keep a copy outside their home.
That it runs a raid 0 (mirror) automatically is good enough for me. And btw, history is full of commercial accidents, data breaches, fires burning up what was thought to be absolutely safe... https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-jun-04-fi-universal4-story.html
No tin foil hat here...
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