What Cloud Service Provider do you use to backup your Red Footage?

[Edson H Philippe]

Hi am exploring different cloud service provider that would allow me to backup my .R3D Footage. What is the best one in the market and what is the average hosting price for 1 terabyte worth of data? What extra service does this cloud provider offer?

 

[Christian Mushenko]

Dropbox allows unlimited content if you have 3 advanced business accounts. These are $20USD each per month, so $720/year.

 

[RyanFrancis]

Backblaze is $5 per month per user and is unlimited.

 

[andrewhake]

Backblaze is outstanding. I have multiple raid arrays connected to my main workstation and have a quick connection and I have no issue backing up an entire shoot overnight. You need to keep the footage on a local drive connected to your machine that is being backed up, which of course is a good idea anyway.

 

[Edson H Philippe]

Blackblaze seems promising. I wonder if they provide playback for R3D file online? For example, if I upload my file into Balckblaze, would I be able to playback the file and see the content of the video online? or will I only see the name of the file, then downlad it before I can play the content?

 

[andrewhake]

As I mentioned, if you are using Backblaze, that means you will have the files also backed up locally (which you 100% SHOULD) so you can easily just play them back off of local storage. DO. NOT. USE. online backup services as your only source of backup.