Backups are one of our specialties. First off, if you're in the market for a data recovery on your Drobo, I strongly recommend getting in touch with Gillware D

Backups are one of our specialties. First off, if you're in the market for a data recovery on your Drobo, I strongly recommend getting in touch with Gillware Data Recovery: https://gillware.com/ https://gillware.com/. Their prices are very fair, they have great staff, and they have a system that lets you preview your recovered data before paying anything. We got a new business client entirely because his RAID 1 NAS pooped itself and Gillware was able to recover everything he needed from it. If you've got a lot of data, online backup services are usually not an option. My usual advice then is to have a completely separate device that automatically pulls data from your primary device and stores backups in an archival format. If you have the time and inclination to do the setup on it, I really recommend BackupPC for this: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. I've used BackupPC for years for larger-scale backups; it's very reliable, it's not too difficult to get going, it does deduplication and compression and pooling and uses rsync (when possible) to reduce network load, it can easily be configured to send you an email in the event of trouble, and it has a simple web interface you can check into on a regular basis. I've yet to find a commercial shrink-wrapped product that does what BackupPC does as well as BackupPC does it. The downside of course is that you still wouldn't have offsite backups, so in the event of a fire or other local disaster, you might still be looking at complete data loss. If at all possible, try to pick a few of the most important directories of files, and get those backed up online. I haven't heard so many bad things about Crashplan or Backblaze, so I'm curious what you've heard.