Drobo Storage array yay? Or nay?

[dchuk]

I'll definitely check out Backblaze, but the problem of slow upload is still there. It would take me months to upload everything. Having redundant storage locally isn't pointless however. Most people have one hard drive in their one computer and do sweet fuck all to back up their stuff. The first step in any backup scheme is hardware redundancy. The second step is offsite backup which I have to some degree with my dedi.

In the meantime I'm confident in knowing Spanish brick and concrete houses don't burn easily and I live on high ground. I live in a gated community and I have bars on all my windows. I also have a big black dog that makes most Spaniards piss themselves in fear when they see her. Plus I rarely ever leave the house, so meh.

whatever works man. My philosophy is that my life blood (code, design work, anything business related) takes precedence for backups, and images and everything fall second. I use spotify so don't care about music downloads, I stream or torrent all my movies, and photos I take I put into dropbox automatically.

As for business stuff, all my code is on github but is also on dropbox, so I would need a really really bad day to be high and dry (not impossible, but very unlikely). I also do a weekly time machine backup just for peace of mind.

As for fast uploads, you're most likely going to be limited by your own broadband as the services accepting your data will be almost always be able to download faster than you can upload. I have 20mb/s downloads here, but like 0.9mb/s uploads.

Just sign up and let that baby run at all times (or just at night if you need all your bandwidth). Once it's caught up, it's only incremental uploads anyways so won't be too big a deal for it to keep up with new stuff.

 

[nickCR]

I'll definitely check out Backblaze, but the problem of slow upload is still there.

I found a solution to this problem by acquiring another ISP. With cable and dsl running side by side into a Dual WAN Cisco router, allowing me to "route" traffic in/out of certain ports via a specific connection. So setup the port the backup app uses to use connection B, where all your browsing, skype, etc goes on connection A.

Also you wouldn't want to backup everything you have. Just photos, files, apps, etc..

 

[50saysHeEatsIt]

It just so happens I was looking into Drobo yesterday, and found this excellent review and warning:

I’m Done with drobo | Scott Kelby's Photoshop Insider

Rather than sending $100 to drobo on a solution that I’m going to abandon shortly, I’d rather just give the money to you to help me find a better solution.To that end I’m offering a $100 bounty to whomever can help me choose a new photo archival storage system now that I’m “dumping drobo”

He gets a ton of comments with suggested solutions.

 

[nickCR]

So I actually went ahead and tried to setup the above mentioned solution with dual ISP's but fucking Backblaze doesn't offer port selection and does all it's business on 443 which is great if you want to avoid being blocked by corporate firewalls but sucks if you are like me and actually need a specific port to forward.

Anyone else have a solution that communicates on a specific port within the app?

 

[BigWill]

I use dropbox + drobo together. Drop box for docs and such. Drobo for mass media. I have like 3 TB used up on it.