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    Join Date: Nov 2012

    Location: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

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    I'm Richard.

    Default Backing up music files to the cloud

    I run a HTPC as my server with two copies of my music on external hdds. I see a lot of people like to use cloud services such as Crashplan or Carbonite for backing up a library.

    Are these two services better than using your average cloud storage provider? I've been thinking about using either Pcloud (prices are good) or Amazon (unlimited storage for £55).

    What services if any are you people using besides backing up to NAS/external hdds?

    If I go with the Amazon service, it has the added benefit of direct streaming from it with Bubble upnp directly to my music streamer should I decide to not use the pc.

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    Join Date: Jun 2014

    Location: Plymouth, UK

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    I'm Barry.

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    I think the biggest issue with cloud storage is your internet upload speed, it took me a couple of hours to copy my music files to a external hard drive, I dread to think how long it would have taken to copy them to the cloud with my very slow upload speed. (less then 1 Mbit/sec).

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    Join Date: Nov 2012

    Location: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

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    Tell me about it! The initial upload would probably take weeks to do, however if you ran the service on a NAS that was on 24/7 you wouldn't really notice it...

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    Join Date: Feb 2017

    Location: Poole

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    I'm Colin.

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    Really like the idea of Amazon one. love to know what they mean by unlimited though.. I have 300 blu rays I am currently ripping that's going to chew roughly 9tb, alongside the 3tb of dvd rips and 1.5tb of music I have (haven't started ripping single artists yet!) are amazon really going to let me upload 13tb ish? Yes, would take an age to upload but I can deal with that.

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    Join Date: Nov 2012

    Location: Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

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    Judging by what I've read on other forums, Yes! Unlimited means just that.

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    Join Date: Mar 2017

    Location: West Sūžsēaxe

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    I'm Edward.

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    I've been using Crashplan for a few years now. Currently at about 2.1 tb (mixture of music, pictures and personal stuff). Initial upload of course takes time - but well worth it.

    Also use Crashplan free on several computers (one in Sydney Oz) to backup to my server (which then gets backed up to Crashplan Central).

    At times I have had to restore specific files/folders - worked perfectly.

    I'm paranoid about security so use encryption - with super strong key.

    Tried other cloud backup services, Crashplan was just the most easy to use and robust. One service I tried failed miserably with restore simply not working (the company said something must have been wrong with how I did things - which was an outright lie).

    Ed
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    Join Date: Mar 2011

    Location: Preston

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    I'm Paul.

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    It'd probably be easier to buy another HDD (or HDDs) and just post it to someone or stick it in a safety deposit box, then either add to it every so often, or buy a USB stick every few months and use that. Unless you have a true fibre connection, uploading TB's will be pretty impractical.

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