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<blockquote data-quote="PapaST" data-source="post: 293127" data-attributes="member: 8330">There are so many scenarios that one could face.&nbsp; Any one backup is near impossible to satisfy all of the requirements.&nbsp; First and foremost, any backup is better than no backup.&nbsp; But once you've past that hurdle you start to consider things like your residence facing natural disasters or completely robbed.&nbsp; Or losing your data and having to restore 2TB from the cloud (would take a month at least).&nbsp; I use FREENAS for my onsite storage and Crashplan for offsite.&nbsp; Everything serves its purpose.&nbsp; I will say that cloud storage is really coming down in price now.&nbsp; I'm paying about $60/year for unlimited storage and bandwidth utilization isn't bad but it's fairly slow.&nbsp; I'm still uploading my data to Crashplan and I started back in early March.Crashplan does offer a nifty solution that could be useful to &quot;forum friends&quot;.&nbsp; Basically say Eduard and I both have large TB drives connected to our computer.&nbsp; With Crashplan running on both our computers, I can backup my data to him and he can backup his data to me.&nbsp; It's a free service and it's totally encrypted so neither of us could see what the other person had.&nbsp; And he would have his backup in FL and I'd have my backup in PA.&nbsp; Not a bad plan.That being said, I love my FreeNAS.&nbsp; It's run flawlessly (knock knock) since I brought it up.Of course this is old hat for most of you guys.&nbsp; I figured it's good to reiterate it to new forum members.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PapaST, post: 293127, member: 8330"] There are so many scenarios that one could face. Any one backup is near impossible to satisfy all of the requirements. First and foremost, any backup is better than no backup. But once you've past that hurdle you start to consider things like your residence facing natural disasters or completely robbed. Or losing your data and having to restore 2TB from the cloud (would take a month at least). I use FREENAS for my onsite storage and Crashplan for offsite. Everything serves its purpose. I will say that cloud storage is really coming down in price now. I'm paying about $60/year for unlimited storage and bandwidth utilization isn't bad but it's fairly slow. I'm still uploading my data to Crashplan and I started back in early March. Crashplan does offer a nifty solution that could be useful to "forum friends". Basically say Eduard and I both have large TB drives connected to our computer. With Crashplan running on both our computers, I can backup my data to him and he can backup his data to me. It's a free service and it's totally encrypted so neither of us could see what the other person had. And he would have his backup in FL and I'd have my backup in PA. Not a bad plan. That being said, I love my FreeNAS. It's run flawlessly (knock knock) since I brought it up. Of course this is old hat for most of you guys. I figured it's good to reiterate it to new forum members. [/QUOTE]

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