[ale] CrashPlan Home, cancelled

[gcs8]

Takes too long to push ~40TB to a new place, the good news is I already
centralized everything in my SAN/NAS and was pushing it up from there, so I
just converted to CPP, even after the year of discounts, it will still be
cheaper than my old family plan.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> And for stuff that doesn't change (old financial records, etc) use MDisk
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/2933478/storage/m-
> disc-optical-media-reviewed-your-data-good-for-a-thousand-years.html
>
> and keep a spare, known-good-and-reboxed CD drive. Park disk copies in a
> locked box and bank safe deposit box. Use encryption on the files and print
> to acid free paper the key/password/barcodes and store _those_ in a sealed
> envelope at a trusted location noted in your will. Use split keys and store
> the second half with a trusted person NOT noted in your will but getting
> stuff (like your computer gear).
>
> Use your OWN gear to back up YOUR data. Verify it can be restored in a
> time frame that is acceptable. Do this verification at least biannually so
> you remember the process. Any data you've never tested a restore on is not
> important enough to back up in the first place. This lesson is often
> learned the hardest way possible and includes the most pain that can be
> imagined.
>
> 1. Client #1 claimed they would back up their own laptop and for me to not
> mess it. He was the CFO of a growing 50+ person company. Laptop hard drive
> died the same day he got the audit notice from the Federal IRS. ALL, and I
> mean __ALL__WITH__NO__EXCEPTIONS__, of the corp finances were on that drive.
>
> 2. Client #2 had their local admin - out of state home office - I was
> local office admin and their backups WORKED - set up backups. Their CFO
> fubbarred the books so badly she - grossly incompetently - just deleted the
> entire accounting folder and went to restore from the prior day and start
> over on her process. Restore didn't work. Backup tool claimed the backups
> were good but the admin never tested the restore process. All financial
> records for a 200+ person federal contracting company were lost. The feds
> called a project audit later that day. For unknown reasons the idiot admin
> didn't get fired.)
>
> Unless you have stupid money to spend on lawyers, a tape drive is cheaper.
>
> On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 17:23 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>
> Not perfect, but costs are well understood and the data never leaves
> your control ...
>
> * Get a couple HDDs and a USB3 dock for backups.
> * Swap just the disks between home and work every week.
> * Use the one at home for daily, versioned, automatic, backups to the
> encrypted file system on it.
> * The one at work is your off-site backup from last week. Encrypted.
>
> 8TB disks have been $160 this month, but 500G disks are probably more
> than enough for most "critical data" in a home.  500G was enough for
> over 10 systems here.  Just deal with large media stuff separately.
>
> "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes
> going 70 mph on an interstate."  I know it is much greater than my
> Comcast links.
>
> On 08/24/2017 01:34 PM, Kyle Brieden wrote:
>
>
> BackBlaze is not being subtle about their willingness to take on all the
> people flocking away from CrashPlan, but that doesn't help us.  I think
> BackBlaze doesn't have a native client for Linux, though.  That being
> said, some people were suggesting standing up a Windows VM/Host to
> collect backups from all your devices and then push up to BackBlaze.
> That comes with some extra overhead on your own part for restores, but
> it does have the added benefit of backing up your whole network while
> only having to pay backblaze for a single machine.
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/crashplan-alternative-backup-solution/
>
>
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