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The simple solution, get a NAS (Synology) to save files locally. Get a NAS that has RAID and also allows you to backup to an external USB drive that can be swapped out on a regular basis. Have the network drive and local computers back up to iDrive.com daily.
You now have your primary files (NAS) A backup (USB Drive) and a cloud backup
Hey u/StoicPuppet 👋
Have you tried saving the login for idrive.com manually yet? If not, give it a shot and let me know if it fixes things for you!
What I did for our home/personal files and our business files was set up a Network Attached Storage device (I have a Synology). It physically sits in my home as I have a faster connection at home.
The NAS backs up to a local hard drive as well as to the cloud (idrive.com)
It took a bit of adjustment, but I was able to set up a system that would allow our computers in our business to VPN into the NAS. This allowed us to map the drive to make it easy to access.
After crashplan I have been using arq with Google Drive and Wasabi. I also use idrive.com. Now I am looking for a replacement for arqbackup. I bought lifetime updates for 1 user with unlimited users in May 2018. Now it is 1 install per computer. What other software are people using. I haven't looked in nearly 2 years.
I was looking for an alternative for Crashplan as well. I switched to iDrive.com for backups. This is really cheap with many discount codes. Also, edu discounts if you are a student. You get 5TB across all of your computers connected to the account and can mail in a drive for the original ingest. The iDrive client is also really nice since you can specify multiple targets (e.g. local backup and cloud backup). If you are looking at a homebrew solution, yes Wasabi is cheap, as is Backblaze B2.
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For the OS choice, I used to do Linux-based systems. I have since moved to a Windows Server license, The Storage Spaces is as good, if not better, than ZFS. It's basically a single-node Ceph distributed storage model. I can run virtual machines using Hyper-V from within Windows, no need for Vmware or anything else. And from within a CoreOS Hyper-V VM, I can run my Docker containers as well. This model also allows me to not care about a hardware RAID card or anything, and just use a SAS expander or SATA ports. Growth with SS is easy as you can replace drives in the physical backing store, or just add one-off drives. Instead of having to replace as part of a pair or whatever model you have in ZFS.
ARQ is great after months of testing many different software tools I purchased ARQ. Tested on multiple systems and OSes. I went with idrive.com, G suite Business account and Wasabi.com One of the datasets is 4.2 TB it took about a month off and on at 10 Mbps to upload the data initially with ARQ. On the rare day when there isn't a change in the dataset, ARQ scans the files in less than 5 minutes. The OS is Windows 8.1, i5 Processor with 8GB of RAM. The data is on the local hard drive and 2 NAS boxes on gigabit connections. The ISP upload is 10 Mbps.