6 ms·

Take a look at Arq. I began switching over to it before Code42 announced they were shutting down CrashPlan, and I've been happy with it. And if you do one-day

by uptown 9y ago

Take a look at Arq. I began switching over to it before Code42 announced they were shutting down CrashPlan, and I've been happy with it. And if you do one-day decide you want to put some of your data in a cloud, this supports that as-well. https://www.arqbackup.com/ https://www.arqbackup.com/

maxxxxx 9y ago
I have decided to go with Arq and Glacier. Although Duplicati looks pretty good too.
- devopsproject 9y ago
  Have you calculated the cost of a restore scenario?
  - maxxxxx 9y ago
    It seems it's $0.01/GB or am I missing something? Pretty new to AWS.
    - devopsproject 9y ago
      You get request changes, archive charges, network charges, etc.
      - maxxxxx 9y ago
        How can you calculate these? I have around 100GB
        devopsproject 9y ago
        https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
        maxxxxx 9y ago
        Since restoring will be a very rare occurrence I think it will be very affordable. Unless I am missing something.
        ValentineC 9y ago
        The AWS calculator is pretty useful too: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
      - CareerUnlocks 9y ago
        "As of 21 November, 2016, Amazon has simplified their pricing for retrieving data from Glacier. You pay a flat per-GB rate for the data you retrieve. The rate depends on which tier you've chosen -- Bulk, Standard or Expedited." https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/restoring_from_glacier.html https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/restoring_from...
- uptown 9y ago
  Any idea if Glacier cheaper than Amazon Cloud Drive? I'd started using Cloud Drive when their storage was unlimited, but I'm revisiting that decision since they've added storage tiers.
icebraining 9y ago
Thanks, for some reason I was convinced Arq was Mac-only. It's not clear to me whether it's a point-in-time backup, or continuous like Crashplan, do you know?
- danieldk 9y ago
  It's incremental. The default schedule is to do hourly backups, but you can customise the interval and/or set up Arq to only backup on certain Wifi networks.
  - icebraining 9y ago
    Thanks, so it's not constantly monitoring the filesystem like Crashplan, right? Doesn't it take a toll on the disk performance when it's scanning?
saganus 9y ago
Arq sounds interesting. Just for completeness sake, I see in their features section: "You can back up to your own Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive accounts, or your SFTP server or NAS" So local options are only SFTP and NAS? do you know what do they mean by NAS? i.e. they support a branded NAS like Synology, or maybe OpenNAS servers? any info on this would be great as that would save me some time downloading the trial and setting up stuff just to figure this out :)
- icebraining 9y ago
  From the documentation, it's only SFTP or whatever network volume that Windows itself can mount. https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/strategy.html https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/strategy.html
- astrocat 9y ago
  I use Arq to do both local and cloud (S3) backups. The local backup isn't limited to any particular NAS or local FTP destination; mine just goes to a cheap external USB drive I have plugged into my mac.
- ValentineC 9y ago
  > So local options are only SFTP and NAS? do you know what do they mean by NAS? i.e. they support a branded NAS like Synology, or maybe OpenNAS servers? any info on this would be great as that would save me some time downloading the trial and setting up stuff just to figure this out :) The option is called "A folder on your drive or NAS", and asks you to specify a folder, so external hard disks should work fine.

by uptown 9y ago

maxxxxx 9y ago

I have decided to go with Arq and Glacier. Although Duplicati looks pretty good too.

devopsproject 9y ago
Have you calculated the cost of a restore scenario?
- maxxxxx 9y ago
  It seems it's $0.01/GB or am I missing something? Pretty new to AWS.
  - devopsproject 9y ago
    You get request changes, archive charges, network charges, etc.
    - maxxxxx 9y ago
      How can you calculate these? I have around 100GB
      - devopsproject 9y ago
        https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/ https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/pricing/
        maxxxxx 9y ago
        Since restoring will be a very rare occurrence I think it will be very affordable. Unless I am missing something.
      - ValentineC 9y ago
        The AWS calculator is pretty useful too: https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
    - CareerUnlocks 9y ago
      "As of 21 November, 2016, Amazon has simplified their pricing for retrieving data from Glacier. You pay a flat per-GB rate for the data you retrieve. The rate depends on which tier you've chosen -- Bulk, Standard or Expedited." https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/restoring_from_glacier.html https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/restoring_from...
uptown 9y ago
Any idea if Glacier cheaper than Amazon Cloud Drive? I'd started using Cloud Drive when their storage was unlimited, but I'm revisiting that decision since they've added storage tiers.

icebraining 9y ago

Thanks, for some reason I was convinced Arq was Mac-only. It's not clear to me whether it's a point-in-time backup, or continuous like Crashplan, do you know?

danieldk 9y ago
It's incremental. The default schedule is to do hourly backups, but you can customise the interval and/or set up Arq to only backup on certain Wifi networks.
- icebraining 9y ago
  Thanks, so it's not constantly monitoring the filesystem like Crashplan, right? Doesn't it take a toll on the disk performance when it's scanning?

saganus 9y ago

Arq sounds interesting. Just for completeness sake, I see in their features section: "You can back up to your own Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive accounts, or your SFTP server or NAS" So local options are only SFTP and NAS? do you know what do they mean by NAS? i.e. they support a branded NAS like Synology, or maybe OpenNAS servers? any info on this would be great as that would save me some time downloading the trial and setting up stuff just to figure this out :)

icebraining 9y ago
From the documentation, it's only SFTP or whatever network volume that Windows itself can mount. https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/strategy.html https://www.arqbackup.com/documentation/pages/strategy.html
astrocat 9y ago
I use Arq to do both local and cloud (S3) backups. The local backup isn't limited to any particular NAS or local FTP destination; mine just goes to a cheap external USB drive I have plugged into my mac.
ValentineC 9y ago
> So local options are only SFTP and NAS? do you know what do they mean by NAS? i.e. they support a branded NAS like Synology, or maybe OpenNAS servers? any info on this would be great as that would save me some time downloading the trial and setting up stuff just to figure this out :) The option is called "A folder on your drive or NAS", and asks you to specify a folder, so external hard disks should work fine.