Cloud Storage for music backups?

I'm using Microsoft Azure storage and QNAP has an app for this.  You just provision some storage and off you go.

We get an allowance as a Microsoft Partner but I'm struggling to work out how much of this allowance it is using as the amount seems to be very trivial!

It works really well though once setup.  Daily backups are automated and email alerts come in should it fail.

Richard

Took a brief look, and for my needs looks like Microsoft would charge about $1650 a year, and Amazon around £450. Think I might stick with my second NAS backup at home and another off-site!

Andrew

This seems very high, you must need a lot of storage!

I've just looked at mine.  I have provisioned locally redundant storage as a page blob and the cost is showing as £1.47 per month per 100 gigs.

I've only got critical files (pictures, business files) and music downloads stored, about 500 gigs.

Richard

The cloud storage is great but if you need to do a full restore of a few TB it is going to be pig slow.  You will be without music while it is restored. I suspose it will be the way to go but for me not yet!

trickydickie posted:

I've only got critical files (pictures, business files) and music downloads stored, about 500 gigs.

Multiply by around 32, and you're just about there!

16 terabytes. That's probably not an average storage requirement!

It's basically an awful lot of music (or some might say 'a lot of awful music'!), with most albums each in a range of formats, from mp3 all the way through to native or upsampled DSD (some of of DSD256), for testing purposes.

So no, not typical: I'm currently writing a beginners' guide to this computer-stored music malarky, and just found myself typing 'for backups, a simple solution is an inexpensive USB hard drive, kept in your 'work bag', your car, your office or a friend or relative's home'.

Fine for most 'normal' collections, but hardly practical for my needs!

With my Macbook on wifi, pulling files from my uServe and sending them to Amazon Cloud, it's pretty slow.  Just under 1tb will have taken me ~36 hours to upload.  I should have plugged the Macbook into my router perhaps.

I buy 1TB portable drives and store them offsite.  Uploading is sooooo slow....

I have a 6TB WD USB3 at my in laws as my off site, I do an incremental update to it quarterly.  Cost was $250 CAD for the drive.  This is for Music and Photos. They just released an 8TB drive too.

I also have local backups, incase of drive failures for the NAS.

My main music collection is on a 6TB drive attached to my iMac & in addition to two NAS backups I use Crashplan. It took months to back everything up, but now it's all there it quickly updates whatever I've then added.

I have not gone down the route of cloud storage just because of upload bandwidth limitations, though to be fair I am on 15megs up now so it would probably be ok.

Two options for me, one is crashplan, its free to back up to a mates computer and really what a cool idea. The other which is pretty decent is microsoft 365, 7 quid a month gets you Office for 5 pcs and/or macs, all your handheld devices and 1TB of storage. Pretty sweet.

I haven been using the Amazon Glacier backup available on the Synology for a while now. It is very cheap and it serves for me as the 'if my house burns down I will have a copy of my files' backup.

A restore will take a long while, but if your house has burned down I guess that won't have priority.