I am making a change soon where I can have a local copy and cloud backup. I’d like to hear feedback on my idea and hear some backup and network setups that other Blind members have. I want to set up a weekly / monthly backup or incremental backup to a single archive containing my entire partition layout. Have it save the file to an external disk. Set Google Drive and iCloud Drive to sync this same folder/file. The end result being I have one local copy, one cloud copy (maybe 2 if I can get both services to sync). Total archive for all partitions is 125-150 GB. Home network is strictly retail AT&T. Pace 5268AC for 50 mbps copper (don’t live in a fiber community). Attached AirPort Express just for the audio out. I’d be adding a directly attached Thunderbolt / USB 3.0 disk for the archive.
Google drive may work better if you want to choose what folder to sync. There are many like those. It’s all about how much money you’re willing to shell out. There is a monthly cost and it’s about $3 a month for the 100gb. I don’t know this for sure, but it might be cheaper to write a script that backs up data to aws s3/glacier.
I have a hard drive i keep connected/backups up regularly via Mac time machine. For cloud I use Arq with Google cloud storage and that's backed up nightly and handles incremental updates, restore when I'll need it, etc. Local hard drive I also use to offload pictures that take up a ton of space on disk.
Local and one drive
I use backblaze for online backup and dropbox for sync. So i have two copies. Harddrive at home is a storage space on two mirrored disks
Time machine to attached usb storage and backblaze for the offsite copy. For sync, I plan to look at Syncthing. For sensitive data I use tarsnap.
Sounds like a topic for /r/DataHorder
Amazon Drive from my NAS. Raid 1 there on two drives locally. With delete disabled cause I don’t want to sync deletes that’s a recipe for data loss. Works great. Can’t complain.
Lacie 6big at home
I like to live dangerously. Backups are for losers.
It’s almost in backlash to how many over the top systems people have installed in their homes. There’s no reason to demand data center reliability in a residential zone. In your house, you’re a consumer, with a consumer connection. That’s all. If you have business to conduct, you’re either at work in a commercial building or else it’s 100% on you if you take your work elsewhere. Got many a service call for “I’m trying to run a business! / I’m losing money!” for internet down in a house in a planned community. No business connection, no special SLA, you can’t sue us because your neighbor ran over your temp line with his lawnmower.