Backup Software

[captive]

TLDR: please recommend a backup solution that offers very high gb or unlimited plans and is *compatible with windows server*


As some of you may remember crash plan totally fucked many of us. They had an unlimited consumer plan and then... they didnt. I had literally finished backing up i think around 8 or 10 TB of data to them and literally not two weeks later is when they changed their plan. Despite fighting with customer service they offered to only transfer 4TB to the new business only plan, which is ridiculous cause they still had my data and could easily transfer it and keep me as a customer. so ive just kind of been rolling without a backup because i moved somewhere with even slower internet upload.

I now have faster internet upload.

So.. i tried to use crash plan. It errors saying it doesn't support server OS. Which is ludicrous. Reading online some seem to think its because servers are likely to have more data? Who knows. Either way its fucking stupid, i could re-image that server to windows 10 and still have the same amount of data to backup.

So, what is a good backup solution to try?

 

[Deleted member 18944]

Why not use a physical onsite backup solution?

 

[captive]

Why not use a physical onsite backup solution?

Click to shrink...

because that does nothing for me if my house gets hit by a tornado or catches fire?

 

[samoscratch]

I use backblaze unlimited for work and personal files for like $6/month

edit: and it seems to support windows server

 

[xxracerxx]

Was going to suggest Backblaze, but they don't support Windows Server as well.

https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217666318-Supported-Operating-Systems

edit: Ahh that is just for Personal Backup, you need the B2 plan.

 

[riverfr0zen]

Can you just put everything in an S3 bucket? (make sure you secure the bucket)

 

[Deleted member 21709]

I use iCloud + local backup on external.

 

[Komo]

because that does nothing for me if my house gets hit by a tornado or catches fire?

Click to shrink...

Use B2 BackBlaze.

If you want to manually do it Amazon Glacier.

 

[B4mv]

If you're decently tech savvy, S3 bucket is probably the way to go. It's something you can teach yourself in a couple of afternoons. Any cloud backup solution is just a front end for throwing your data in an S3 bucket anyway. Veeam community edition is free, you can use an S3 bucket as a target.

Do you need it to be a cloud solution? Because if not, it's pretty easy to just get a NAS, throw two 12tb drives in it in a Raid 1 config and let it be a target.

 

[Calm Killer]

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