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August 22, 2017 08:00 pm

Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend?

New submitter OneHundredAndTen writes: After having used the services of CrashPlan for my backups for a few years now, I have just learned that CrashPlan is exiting the home backup business. Although this won't be happening for another 14 months, they have the chutzpah of recommending a provider (Carbonite) that does not support Linux. Looking in the net, there are not so many alternatives available -- unless you go with somebody that charges you $5/mo and up for a measly 100GB, or (occasionally) 1TB. Fine for a little phone, but not for the several TB worth of video I have shot over the years. Anybody aware of decent cloud backup solutions that support Linux, and that offer a maximum backup capacity that is not ridiculously small? Reader cornjones asks a similar question: My use case: Backups for several computers, both at my house and scattered family machines Encrypted locally by a key I set, only encrypted bits are stored offsite I have a copy of my data onsite. I primarily want to protect against lost drives or fire (or ransomware attack) Ideally, I would be able to point it at a NAS, which I don't have now. The plan I was on was 10 computers, unlimited data, for 4 years @ $429. Lower is better, but I am willing to pay in that range.Across my machines, I probably have about 1TB of bulk storage and 10 or so machines w/, say, 60GB backups each.

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