[REQUEST] Onsite Backup or Cloud Backup for Home Users?

[Yosebas84]

Hello fellas, i was looking for some provider who allowed me to backup an entire PC on the cloud the cheap way, and i found Acronis Cloud Backup, charges $50 per a year subscription and gives you 250GB, allowing you to create a System restore backup (that's what i was looking for).

To be honest.. i really like Veeam, works great, never had an issue i couldn't solve but i don't know if the Veeam Cloud is cheap enough for a home user (just asked for a quote)

Is there any other option you guys know/use for what i'm trying to achieve? or do you think that old fashioned get a portable HD for 50$ and use free veeam for the backup is the best approach for home users?

 

[nerd2u]

Backblaze gives you unlimited cloud backup for $50/year

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[timeshifter]

Except Backblaze if just file backup. I think what @Yosbas84 is describing a full system image backup in the cloud.

For home and some small business users that's been my one-two punch. Veeam Free Endpoint backup with a portable hard drive, plus Backblaze for $50 per year.

Only drawback is that users don't check the status and can go months with no backups if their drive disconnects or whatever... even though you place conspicuous icons for them and tell them how important it is to check them.

 

[Markverhyden]

@timeshifter has the plan. You don't want one backup system, two is the way to go. If the machine dies and you only have one backup then you don't really have a backup if the machine fails, just an "original".

Cloud image backups are a great idea but the bottleneck can be a problem. These companies don't give you a large pipe. So 250gb restore could take days. The best is to do local image backups, rotate offsite or what ever, then use the cloud for the data only. With cloud large stores you can usually pick and choose so grabbing the important stuff can happen quickly.

 

[goldmercury]

+1 for backblaze

 

[Yosebas84]

Yeah, i like the idea of having both, i'm gonna give it a try and see how it goes, thanks for your ideas!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Test the product you want to try first.....even though your internet pipe may be 50 megs, doesn't mean you'll be downloading that clients image at 50 megs. I've seen various products downloads span for dayssss.
Really best to get a local speed vault ...which "syncs" with cloud backup. That way you have an image with various retentions locally, as well as offsite in the cloud.

We used to start our backup packages at 25 bucks a month for up to 25 gigs (basically a buck a gig), and we went up in tiers from there in 5 gig chunks. But now we try to start at 35 bucks a month as the minimum for workstations and 75 bucks a month as the absolute minimum for servers..but we usually have that server bundled in with a larger support plan with labor on it. This is for our SolarWinds BDR product. For clients with higher needs..we use Datto.
We used to use iDrive for our entry level backup, but mostly got rid of that except for a very few small handful of clients. Used to also do JungleDisk.

 

[Yosebas84]

Test the product you want to try first.....even though your internet pipe may be 50 megs, doesn't mean you'll be downloading that clients image at 50 megs. I've seen various products downloads span for dayssss.
Really best to get a local speed vault ...which "syncs" with cloud backup. That way you have an image with various retentions locally, as well as offsite in the cloud.

We used to start our backup packages at 25 bucks a month for up to 25 gigs (basically a buck a gig), and we went up in tiers from there in 5 gig chunks. But now we try to start at 35 bucks a month as the minimum for workstations and 75 bucks a month as the absolute minimum for servers..but we usually have that server bundled in with a larger support plan with labor on it. This is for our SolarWinds BDR product. For clients with higher needs..we use Datto.
We used to use iDrive for our entry level backup, but mostly got rid of that except for a very few small handful of clients. Used to also do JungleDisk.

Thanks! That's the plan, give it a try with my own 700Gb backup and start testing (never sell a product/service without testing).