With all that being said, you could use whatever cloud service you want, as the important part comes with.ĭuplicati, an open source file duplication and encryption software. I think I pay about $1.30 per month to keep about 300 GB stored there. If you ever do need to recover your data, Z is the highest figure (but is still not really that expensive at all). It costs $X per Kb to upload to the B2 server, $Y per Kb per month to keep it stored there, and $Z per Kb to download from the B2 server. You don't pay a fixed amount per month for unlimited access, instead you pay by the amount you have stored. I searched for a solution to this for a long time, and ended up deciding upon using Backblaze B2 + Duplicati.īackblaze B2 is just the cloud storage solution I chose to go with because I really like it's payment structure. I personally use B2 as it's among the cheapest cloud storage providers out there as far as I know. Keep in mind though that the only complete protection against disaster (like a housefire etc) is to have an offsite backup. This will increase your resistance against disaster scenarios. So one thing you could do if you're nervous about your current backup external HDD failing soon, is to get a second drive and schedule RSync to essentially mirror the backup data from drive #1 over to (new) external drive #2 (or a cloud storage target).

You could use this, for example, to back up your main files to your current external drive.Īnother tool, RSync, automates basically direct copying of files from one place to another (as far as I've heard it can also do local drives as well as cloud targets). The major benefit of this is that you set it to backup entire directories with filters (with full ability to exclude specific subdirectories or folders as you wish), but after that you don't need to remember to copy-and-paste over the files you want to back up, it handles it for you including added stuff. There are lots of tools out there for this, but here are just a couple:ĭuplicati is a free, open source tool that will make scheduled incremental backups from anywhere on your computer to any of a number of backup storage destinations, including cloud providers (Amazon S3, Backblaze B2, etc) as well as local options like another hard drive on your system or a network drive on your home network. But IMHO you might want to ramp up and automate a bit. For one-time use, just copy and paste or clone the drive as previously suggested.

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