Rev Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 What do some of you guys use online as a file/pic/rom storage back up? I want a central place to safely store everything. Or should I use a disc? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 I mainly rely on a local NAS for backups and point my computers' built-in backup services to it. Devices (phones, tablets, etc.) tend to automatically put things up onto my OneDrive account. (Got a nice benefit a few years back to have a permanent 100GB for free.) If you want something low-cost and offsite, I'd imagine most of the Dropbox/GoogleDrive/OneDrive/Amazon/Apple services will meet your needs -- depending on just how much storage you need, etc. etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tarzilla Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Microsoft Onedrive is decent, Stevens right, how much stuff are your storing and what is it? For family photos and videos I have a copy on 2 different NAS devices and on two portable drives. One of the drives is always at my mother in laws in case my house burns down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Photos are small enough that you can probably use Google Drive (15GB free per account). I think you can have up to like 5 or more accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Microsoft Onedrive is decent, Stevens right, how much stuff are your storing and what is it? For family photos and videos I have a copy on 2 different NAS devices and on two portable drives. One of the drives is always at my mother in laws in case my house burns down. Tarzilla's got much closer to the truly safest approach running there. A coworker of mine actually has several family members across the country involved in a rotating system -- along with safety deposit boxes! Quite elaborate and involved. I.e. multiple redundant offsite backups of various ages. All that said - the main point is to get at least one approach set up so you have a recent offsite backup. I'm sure those more into the various terms of use for the different biggies will chime in. Like so many technology services, passions can run intense on those opinions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+the1hatman Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 I get by using Photobucket. It's how I link all the pis of the boxes I make here. But I think you have to pay after a certain GB limit, which I've never even come close to hitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Just to be clear we're talking about pron, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Just to be clear we're talking about pron, right? This is Rev we're talking about so obviously it's pr0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freewheel Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Crashplan. Ridiculously happy customer for a few years now. Pretty simple to set up, and if I'm "somewhere else" and need to pull something from it, it's very straightforward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 Just intv roms, pics, and related files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Just intv roms, pics, and related files. = code for soooooo much pr0n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share Posted May 1, 2016 No just intv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 "Related files" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Spear Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Main computer has an external HD. Every now and then I use a script to recursively copy all director is I care about to another computer in the basement. Once or twice a year I get an external HD and copy everything to that and send it to a relatives house all padded properly, they keep it in their home. I will move part of the process to use Azure Backup since its included in Windows 10 so I have less manual work to do, but will still incorporate the "extra drive in cold storage" part. For source code, I have Git repositories set locally with echo to DropBox, but I am moving that to OneDrive once my DropBox fee for the year runs out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 (edited) No just intv Where do you get Intellivision pr0n? Ug, never mind. I'm reminded of Rule #34, and now I'm afraid to search... Edited May 2, 2016 by DZ-Jay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Tarzilla Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 Just intv roms, pics, and related files. How big? If it is just retro game pr0n then you can do a couple of things. Get a Microsoft OneDrive account and use their Sync tool to keep a mirror of your files. Then get a Dropbox and point it at the same folder. Better yet, keep two separate folders and just periodically update the dropbox one with a copy and paste. Go to Cosco and buy a 1 terabyte USB drive and copy paste update it whenever you update the dropbox copy. Lots of other ways to automate, but I'm considering the source of the question in my answer. I haven't used Google Drive but you could probably do the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted May 2, 2016 Share Posted May 2, 2016 (edited) Microsoft just dropped my free OneDrive storage from 15GB to 5GB. Google Drive is still at 15GB. It may not matter now but you might want do more with it in the future. And they're not all that expensive it you want to pay for more storage. For backups they both work the same way, there is a designated directory on your local drive that their utility syncs with. You can store your data directly there for automatic backups. I rather keep my data separate, I have another utility that backsup my data to the "designated directory". You can also just copy files directly to their website and not install their utility at all. Not sure how dropbox works. When working with large amounts of data you can consider discs for archiving, and cloud storage for active projects. Edited May 2, 2016 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BBWW Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I have used Dropbox. Through getting folks to signup I have a lot of room there. I use it mostly for business, no gaming stuff or porn, just lots of photos of my wood, from all angles and exposures. :-) Each client will get a custom box full of photos of my wood. Never thought my wood would be so popular. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 I use my cellar for storage, lots of room there only hassle is down loading things there.. Stairs are steep as F!!! lol obtw I occasions I do find rare forgotten treasures down there.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nurmix Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 (edited) Carbonite. Unlimited space, backs up in the background without user intervention, files can be accessed from any PC (or Mac). The Personal Basic plan is $59.95 per year (which covers internal hard drives, not USB - other plans available that cover those if needed). I can get it for you for a discount through my business if you decide you are interested, Rev. Sent from my Intellivision ECS using Intelli-Tapatalk Edited May 4, 2016 by nurmix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Metal Jesus Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 I am a big fan of DropBox... just because their OS app integrates with the file system so well with things like "Right Click to Get Public URL"...AND your smartphone probably supports it too, so you truly have access to your files everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7800fan Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Wish there were way to get online backup that isn't slow. I tried Carbonite, I was getting at best 8KB per second. Try uploading 200GB worth of digital pictures (15 years) over 56k dialup pace. My DSL upload is capped at half meg (64KB) so it is not the upload bottleneck with my ISP. :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nurmix Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Wish there were way to get online backup that isn't slow. I tried Carbonite, I was getting at best 8KB per second. Try uploading 200GB worth of digital pictures (15 years) over 56k dialup pace. My DSL upload is capped at half meg (64KB) so it is not the upload bottleneck with my ISP. :/ Carbonite throttles down if you are using your computer, especially if lot's of other applications are using your Internet connection. The best course of action if you've just installed it is leave your computer running over night, with other applications closed, then Carbonite will operate at its full capacity (which, according to their FAQ, is up to 10Mbps: http://support.carbonite.com/articles/Personal-Pro-Mac-Windows-Backup-Speed). If you have a large initial backup, obviously you may need to do this more than one night. Once the initial backup is done, then you're only doing incremental backups, which obviously happen much quicker. One other thing to mention, they also do 'versioning' - you can recover multiple/older versions of files if needed. As they say.. your mileage may vary. Sent from my Intellivision ECS using Intelli-Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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