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I was sold on Backblaze. Until it would continually time out when backing up my 5TB pseudo-server/HTPC. And then it would restart. Just as it reached 5TB. I thi

I was sold on Backblaze. Until it would continually time out when backing up my 5TB pseudo-server/HTPC. And then it would restart. Just as it reached 5TB. I think I have finally found my solution with rclone (I moved to a Linux system after Backblaze was a no-go) and Amazon Cloud Drive. All my data is encrypted and it is trivially easy to add fresh backup copies. All of this is mostly for my media. All non-media is in my dropbox account and I back up to a physical drive. I used to be high on BackBlaze (I had issues with CrashPlan taking forever too, BackBlaze was faster) but when it would continually just have my backups magically disappear, I left.

josefresco 9y ago
I only backup about 1.5TB (4.4M files) so yeah - it seems every tool has it's limits.
glenneroo 9y ago
I've been able to backup close to 1 million files (7.7TB) to CrashPlan, granted I had to manually edit the .ini file multiple times to increase the Java Heap memory allocation to allow that many files. At least the fix is documented on their support page (although I still can't figure out why after however many years this bug exists, they don't just add an option in the software directly). The only problem I have with them is that they have an upload limit, which changes from day to day, but over here in Europe I get between 100-1000 KB/s, which according to support is throttled depending on how many users are currently active. They offered to let me send them a hard-drive... to their US address, haha! It took about 2 years of leaving my PC on 24/7 to finally back everything up, let's hope they don't go the same way as StreamLoad (MediaMax), where I lost ~2TB of time-lapse footage due to being unable to download everything before the service went offline. It's even documented on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linkup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linkup). p.s. I made this comparison of cloud image backup solutions back in 2012 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWx6wbL6NYbhjY1_ISNapAgXbi-JuKJJaF2K5RPAZLk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWx6wbL6NYbhjY1_ISNa...), it's crazy how many of these services are now defunct.
- mcgrath_sh 9y ago
  That is a really long time. I was able to back up most of my media in a little over a week and a half...
  - glenneroo 9y ago
    Yeah it was painful. Thankfully ~50% of that time was at the office, where I don't pay the electricity bill. A lot of the latter half was using a very unreliable DSL connection, which, due to rotting copper cables (and multiple chew-throughs from rats), I only get about half of the promised throughput, so upstream is limited to ~120 KB/s at best. I finally caved in and bought an LTE modem last year which gets me ~1 MB/s (on good days).
- kalleboo 9y ago
  I can't imagine having the patience to wait 2 years(!!) to upload everything. It took about 24 hours to backup my internal 750 GB drive to Backblaze... At that point I'd just build my own system that uploaded to Glacier or something.

josefresco 9y ago

I only backup about 1.5TB (4.4M files) so yeah - it seems every tool has it's limits.

glenneroo 9y ago

I've been able to backup close to 1 million files (7.7TB) to CrashPlan, granted I had to manually edit the .ini file multiple times to increase the Java Heap memory allocation to allow that many files. At least the fix is documented on their support page (although I still can't figure out why after however many years this bug exists, they don't just add an option in the software directly). The only problem I have with them is that they have an upload limit, which changes from day to day, but over here in Europe I get between 100-1000 KB/s, which according to support is throttled depending on how many users are currently active. They offered to let me send them a hard-drive... to their US address, haha! It took about 2 years of leaving my PC on 24/7 to finally back everything up, let's hope they don't go the same way as StreamLoad (MediaMax), where I lost ~2TB of time-lapse footage due to being unable to download everything before the service went offline. It's even documented on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linkup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linkup). p.s. I made this comparison of cloud image backup solutions back in 2012 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWx6wbL6NYbhjY1_ISNapAgXbi-JuKJJaF2K5RPAZLk/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mWx6wbL6NYbhjY1_ISNa...), it's crazy how many of these services are now defunct.

mcgrath_sh 9y ago
That is a really long time. I was able to back up most of my media in a little over a week and a half...
- glenneroo 9y ago
  Yeah it was painful. Thankfully ~50% of that time was at the office, where I don't pay the electricity bill. A lot of the latter half was using a very unreliable DSL connection, which, due to rotting copper cables (and multiple chew-throughs from rats), I only get about half of the promised throughput, so upstream is limited to ~120 KB/s at best. I finally caved in and bought an LTE modem last year which gets me ~1 MB/s (on good days).
kalleboo 9y ago
I can't imagine having the patience to wait 2 years(!!) to upload everything. It took about 24 hours to backup my internal 750 GB drive to Backblaze... At that point I'd just build my own system that uploaded to Glacier or something.