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Cloud Backup Recommendations - Pro or Con?
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>>>>I'm looking into cloud backup options for a small business, they'd be looking at backing up ~150GB.
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>>>>This will mainly be for secondary protection against disaster (fire, theft, earthquake etc.), they'll still have onsite backup to external media. Also for protection against CryptoWall-type malware.
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>>>>Anyone have any recommendations, for or against, the various providers?
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>>>Maybe google drive would work??
>>>https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375123?hl=en
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>>Quite possibly, but it looks like we'd need the $10/month plan ($120 per year).
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>>Some other providers are about half that cost and seem to offer features that are better suited to backups e.g.
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>>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2288745,00.asp
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>What about maybe using Microsoft's OneDrive? I think you get 1TB free if you have Office 365.

Hmm, they do have Office 365 - that might be an option. It looks like it's not suitable as raw storage space (for, say, a full disk backup) without some gyrations: http://www.ytechie.com/2014/11/using-unlimited-onedrive-space-for-backups/

They could probably be served well enough by backing up just certain folder trees to the cloud. Folder syncing with OneDrive might work for that. However, that wouldn't provide any protection against CryptoWall etc. I'd prefer a solution that saved multiple versions of files or had some sort of file history function.
Regards. Al

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