Online "Backup" Services for Safeguarding Footage?

[Tom Lowe]

I've been trying to build a little system of backing up important footage. I have a bunch of external drives, and I keep one at my dad's place just in case my house gets robbed or burned to the ground. But it's tough to update that drive frequently.

I'm thinking it would be a good idea to sign up for one of these online storage/backup services. I probably need about 200GBs of storage for now. Can anyone recommend such a service?

I will continue with my current scheme of backing up to external harddrives like crazy, but I figure the online thing would be a great safety net, and possibly a way to upload limited footage on the road, assuming the hotels have a decent net connection!

Shooting on the road makes me especially paranoid, because if your car/SUV gets ripped off, then you really lost everything.

 

[Pietro Impagliazzo]

I use Dreamhost for website hosting.

They advertise some crazy numbers that I'm not really sure you get that.

Anyway, go to dreamhost and check their plans.

http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

 

[Alexis Hanawalt]

These days you can get that kind of storage from GoDaddy for like $6/month

 

[Nick Wolf]

Whats the usual deal with them look like in terms of liability for any damaged or lost data?

Would it be feasable to dump everything into their storage for cutting corners budget wise?

Does anybody do it that way?

DogDay

 

[Noah Kadner]

I'd think the amount of bandwidth you'd need to upload all of that data would make it not worthwhile, unless you have Michael Bay Fios. I'd recommend as an alternative getting a nice LTO drive, that's what we use. Fairly bullet-proof and cheap cost. You can always put the cartridges into a fireproof safe deposit box somewhere if you're really paranoid.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_110tlto3?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

Noah

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

That's a hell of an idea but you'll need one badass connection for it.

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

I'd think the amount of bandwidth you'd need to upload all of that data would make it not worthwhile, unless you have Michael Bay Fios. I'd recommend as an alternative getting a nice LTO drive, that's what we use. Fairly bullet-proof and cheap cost. You can always put the cartridges into a fireproof safe deposit box somewhere if you're really paranoid.

http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pvaul_110tlto3?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

Noah

the tapes are cheap too, right?
never used one of these....how do i feed them?
any known problems with macs

 

[Noah Kadner]

They work like an FTP server- it's drag and drop through a web interface. Very reliable. And tapes vary in price but you can expect to pay around $30-40 for a 200GB tape. Not bad once you swallow the cost of the drive. But hey you're in RED land- you're used to paying a bit more.

Noah

 

[Tom Lowe]

We've got a supremely badass connection at the office, for a one-time upload.

From home or the road, what would be important in a backup site is a good download/upload manager client interface, so if the connection gets killed, you can resume the upload where it left off. Most of my files are 3-8GBs.

Right now my webhosting plan gives me unlimited storage, so in theory I could upload my files there via FTP, I suppose. I'm not sure how secure that would be.

 

[Noah Kadner]

I use Cachefly for online storage. Their connection is hella fast upload and download.

Noah