Offsite backup

[Peanuthead]

Since crash plan seems to be leaving the home market and in calculating the cost for backing up terabytes worth of data using another service it seems like it might be more worthwhile talk Colo a server.

Does anyone have any recommendations for where to Colo a server? Or does somebody recommend a different offsite backup service? At minimum I want to be able to encrypt the data at the Colo which obviously would fall on my end. Ideally I would also have a VPN connection from point-to-point. Thinking the data would just back up to a spare synology I have.

 

[ELit3]

Since crash plan seems to be leaving the home market and in calculating the cost for backing up terabytes worth of data using another service it seems like it might be more worthwhile talk Colo a server.

Does anyone have any recommendations for where to Colo a server? Or does somebody recommend a different offsite backup service? At minimum I want to be able to encrypt the data at the Colo which obviously would fall on my end. Ideally I would also have a VPN connection from point-to-point. Thinking the data would just back up to a spare synology I have.

Any preferred location or is it price/reliability based?

 

[nitrobass24]

I just upgraded to Crashplan Pro and it resulted in the following outcome:
My existing subscription is now a "Pro" subscription at no cost for the remaining period (10 months)
They gave me 12 monhts at 75% off ($30 total)

I have unlimited backup of my Synology to Crashplan Pro for the next 22 months for $30. Will be $120/year after that.

 

[Peanuthead]

I am on the east coast. Not really but ideally on the east coast. Cost would have to be near equal or less to some other service like crashplan business.

 

[Peanuthead]

I missed signing up for crashplan home so no grandfathering me in

 

[ELit3]

I am on the east coast. Not really but ideally on the east coast. Cost would have to be near equal or less to some other service like crashplan business.

Crashplan is about $10 per month your not going to find any colo for $10.

 

[Peanuthead]

That is per device and I have multiple devices so. I may just rock the Pro version until next year that I can figure out the whole multiple backups at multiple sites thing.

 

[ELit3]

That is per device and I have multiple devices so.

How many devices do you have I have a few servers multiple places on the east coast I could recommend what's the budget?

 

[StammesOpfer]

When backing up multiple devices it MAY make sense to aggregate backups to a central location locally and then backup that centralized data to the cloud.

 

[Aestr]

Agreed with @StammesOpfer. This is how I deal with the crashplan limitation. Since I don't have that much data on my non-NAS devices it doesn't chew up that much space and gives me a much more convenient local restore option.