What's The Easiest and Most Reliable Way to Back up My Data?

draouht on 28/11/2019 - 22:34
Last edited 02/12/2019 - 04:00 by 1 other user

Hey guys,

Looking for a good reliable budget way to back up my data. At the moment I have all my photos/movies spread across Google Photos/One Drive/my pc.
I've been using Plex (which I'm wanting to step away from as it's really not that great) and running that from my PC to run movies to my TV.

Pretty much I have come up with the following options
A) Consolidate all my photos into Google Photos and pay the $25p.a for 100GB which would be enough for my photos and pick up an external 1TB SSD for movies
- I figure downloading and copying to an SSD is quicker than mucking around with Network media players

  • Will my TVs be able to read my SSD and run videos off of it? (as I know some can't run a hard drive e.g power issues)

B) Buy a WD MyCloud NAS and just run everything through that

  • I've just read bad reviews that its UI is clunky and they aren't that spectacular

My devices that I use are:
-Windows PC
-iPhone 11
-Macbook Pro

So whatever option I take I want to be able to access my photos my phone and my movies from my macbook/pc.

Would really appreciate any thoughts or experiences you guys have or if there is a better option.

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Comments

  • Hybroid on 28/11/2019 - 22:36
    +2

    If you have an iPhone, use iCloud, seamless and works great without losing image quality like Google Photos does. If you don't, option A is easiest.

    • draouht on 28/11/2019 - 22:39

      I've only recently got my iPhone, previous to that I was Android, I'll have a play around with iCloud some more and see if I like it. Thanks!

    • Doovik on 28/11/2019 - 22:40
      +3

      iCloud is great but sounds like OP clearly has a lot of files and 5GB is not enough, also iCloud is more expensive and there are monthly payments for it. But yes iCloud is the best way if it were cheaper and had more storage.

  • Laziofogna on 28/11/2019 - 22:38
    +4

    I am paranoid and put everything on two different hdd, in case one breaks down. I am so paranoid that I can’t trust any cloud or similar.

    • apsilon on 29/11/2019 - 06:54
      +2

      I agree, I'd never trust cloud storage as my only backup. Smaller ones could go out of business without warning and even larger ones if you search you'll find people saying files have randomly disappeared (especially common on photo sites). You're also completely at their mercy. I've seen one guy lose access to all his photos as they said he was storing copyrighted material yet every one of the photos he'd taken himself. No avenue for appeal, just gone.

      Non confidential stuff can be backed up online but also keep local copies, one at home and one at work for example (encrypted of course). Not a bad idea to keep multiple media types as well if possible.

  • bulldoges on 28/11/2019 - 22:50

    Get google business https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html $15.12PM for 1TB storage but they dont enforce the 5 user rule and you can get unlimited storage for that price

    • Meeb on 28/11/2019 - 22:59

      At that price might as well go with Crashplan Small Business, unlimited storage for a similar cost ($10 usd). It is per device pricing though, but unlimited space.

      • Diji1 on 29/11/2019 - 00:20
        +2

        A trap with a lot of these services is retrieving backups. If you have a disaster then you may be retrieving TBs of data at tyhe same time and the speed is shaped to very low speed with sustained transfers.

        • Meeb on 29/11/2019 - 07:34
          +2

          I recovered a lot of data recently from them and they didn't throttle me. They have local a Australian datacentre too.

    • draouht on 29/11/2019 - 09:16

      I hadn't seen that before, it's interesting but at $15p.m, in the long run, is going to be quite expensive. Also it doesnt say it includes Google Photos anywhere which is what I'd ideally want for its photo management.

  • o53djz7qTPY4der on 29/11/2019 - 05:08
    +1

    Backblaze.

    But, why don't you like Plex?

    Are you trying to create a backup or a local/remote media sharing service?

    I use Plex for my photos, it works great. They are stored locally but also backed up to backblaze. It costs about $1pm for 120gb in B2 storage.

  • 87percent on 29/11/2019 - 08:30
    +1

    even my 2013 Panasonic Plasma runs a 1TB HDD

  • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 29/11/2019 - 08:51
    +1

    I just store everything on OneDrive and occasionally save important stuff to Google Drive as a secondary backup.

    Any reason you don't like Plex? It's fantastic!

    • draouht on 29/11/2019 - 09:08

      I just find that its incredible buggy and always crashes. I tried running it from my TV, Firestick and PS4 and just constantly drops out and I spend more time trying to get it to work than actually watching content.

      • Typical16-bitEnjoyer on 29/11/2019 - 09:23

        Crashes and drops out are different things. Which is occurring?

        It's more likely your network causing issues than Plex itself. Highly recommend jumping on their forums. Heaps of people would eagerly assist you, it's a great community.

        I've setup Plex for entire extended family and it's so easy to use that between that and Netflix 95% of their media consumption is catered for easily.

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