Hello from Stirling, UK

[ThyWhiteHawk]

Hi,

This is my first FreeNAS (and indeed FreeBSD) project, but luckily I've been using Linux since the mid '90s... so I'm not a total noob to the CLI ;-)

I'm currently making my home file-server ( http://www.gavsworld.net/?page=The Server ) more rugged, since CrashPlan have announced that they are stopping support of their "home" product (meaning that computer-to-computer backups will be no more, and the "small business" plan is much more than I'm paying for the "home" cloud service). I'll still have a backup solution (currently undecided, as I've got until September before my CrashPlan "home" stops), but I figured that having a more rugged file-system on the server in the first place will help

Cheers,
Gavin.

 

[Nick2253]

Unless you data needs are small, unfortunately there aren't many good Linux-supported cloud backup options. In my research, the CrashPlan SMB plan at $10/mo is the most cost effective if you need 2TB or more of backup. Even Amazon Glacier exceeds $10/mo at 2.5TB, and then you're stuck with extremely high latency recovery (not to mention having to pay for that traffic).

Backblaze B2 is pretty competitive at $0.005/GB, and is well supported by many open source tools, but you're still looking at $10+/mo if you're backing up any kind of volume.

I'd be happy to be proved wrong, so if you come up with something better, please let us know.

 

[ThyWhiteHawk]

Yeah, I've pretty much come to the same conclusions myself. I suspect that when my "home" subscription runs out (September), that I'll probably switch over to SMB - at the end of the day it's only an extra $5 a month more than I'm paying just now (although, it is a 100% increase if you look at it from a different angle!)

I'll probably end up running CrashPlan on my FreeNAS box - I suspect that my current Intel Atom low power server will end up as another desktop PC in the house... and no point setting up a Linux VM to run it when it can simply run in a FreeNAS jail