[colug-432] Recommendations for inexpensive and secure cloud storage?

[Jeff Frontz]

1) What is the quantity of data that you'll actually want to protect (is it
actually 4TB?)?
2) How often/much does the to-be-protected data change?
3) What sort of access (frequency, amount, platform) do you need to the
to-be-protected data?
4) What threats do you want to protect it against? and
5) How fast do you need to recover if said threat should materialize?

I use everything from hardcopy to flash drives to phones/pictures to google
docs to backuppc/timemachine to jungle disk to crash plan to tapes to
mirrored/removed-to-offsite hard-drives (and CDs/DVDs): different data gets
handled differently.

Jeff



On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Dan Kaiser <dank2878 at gmail.com> wrote:

> [tldr: looking for recommendations and/or testimonials for cloud storage
> solutions)
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> In the next month or so my family will be temporarily relocating to the
> east coast while our two youngest children undergo intense medical
> treatment for the next year or so.  We will be storing everything, renting
> the house out, and living in the hospital or communal housing while there.
>  This means tight living quarters and no direct access to the internet
> router.
>
> I had been trying to set up OwnCloud as my own personal Dropbox platform
> for self-hosted, backed-up, storage for all of our media and more important
> files, but now I will need to put that plan on hold.
>
> Does anyone in this group use or recommend a hosted storage platform?  I
> want to ensure we have access to all (or at least most) of our digital
> media and other important files (read: tax and financial data, etc.) while
> we are away.  I'm planning to bring along at least one 4TB external drive,
> but I'd hate to rely on one spinning disk for a year without a
> backup/redundancy plan.
>
> I have 50 GB each in Dropbox and Box, but we'll need a good deal more than
> that.  I thought about setting up a box running Crashplan at a family
> member's house to have everything back up automatically using their
> "friend" backup solution, but there are a lot of things that could go wrong
> with that.
>
> Reviews and opinions abound on the various services (Carbonite, JustCloud,
> Amazon, Mozy, Back Blaze, etc.) so I'd like some input from folks on this
> group if there are specific services that are highly recommended.
>
> Cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS, Win7, iOS, Android) functionality is a
> must.  Most of these services offer web interfaces, but
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Dan
>
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