Jud Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 Quote If my local music files are unavailable for a couple days, while the restore is running, I'm OK with that. Heh, I winced when I saw that sentence. 🙂 But good that you found the solution that works best for you. Also, the sheer volume of music you've got relative to me makes it much easier for me than for you to consider options that multiply storage needs. Adding myself to the list of folks interested in reading the next article about 10Gbps networking to the Mac. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 9 hours ago, firedog said: Started a trial of Backblaze. I have 5TB to backup, most is music files. So far 4 days have gone by and only about 200GB have uploaded. At this pace, the trial will end before my upload is even finished. I only have an ADSL line, but this is still incredibly slow. Interesting. For me, upload on another service brought the rest of my network speed to a screeching halt, while uploading to Backblaze went fast and didn't interfere with the rest of the network. Do you have QoS settings or anything else that may be limiting speed to less than the maximum your ADSL is capable of? I believe Backblaze offers to ship a USB drive for your files, at least in the US, though I don't remember what the cost was. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 6, 2023 Share Posted February 6, 2023 12 hours ago, firedog said: Started a trial of Backblaze. I have 5TB to backup, most is music files. So far 4 days have gone by and only about 200GB have uploaded. At this pace, the trial will end before my upload is even finished. I only have an ADSL line, but this is still incredibly slow. 3 hours ago, Jud said: Interesting. For me, upload on another service brought the rest of my network speed to a screeching halt, while uploading to Backblaze went fast and didn't interfere with the rest of the network. Do you have QoS settings or anything else that may be limiting speed to less than the maximum your ADSL is capable of? I believe Backblaze offers to ship a USB drive for your files, at least in the US, though I don't remember what the cost was. I checked and no, unfortunately Backblaze doesn't offer a hard drive for initial backup, only for restoring if you've lost a bunch of files. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Popular Post Jud Posted February 8, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted February 8, 2023 General information: - Ars Technica likes iDrive. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/ars-archivum-top-cloud-backup-services-worth-your-money/ While Backblaze, their second choice, has faster upload/download, they aren't pleased with the Backblaze app UI. (It's adequate for my purposes, though I can understand their complaints about it.) iDrive is offering large discounts on 1 year of service (at least here in the US). After that, iDrive is very price competitive up to 10 TB for personal backup (no fancy S3 compatibility), and even for the S3 compatible plan that opens up capabilities for lots of nice 3rd party apps it's reasonably price competitive up to 2 TB. After that, the price difference with Backblaze's unlimited personal backup plan is probably too great to ignore. - I'm very, very intrigued by Storj, which seems reasonably price competitive up to a couple of TB and has a uniquely resilient and secure method of storing your backups. https://www.storj.io/pricing https://www.storj.io/how-it-works Bertel and The Computer Audiophile 2 One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 10, 2023 Share Posted February 10, 2023 9 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: @bobfa I think this has something to do with the perfect combination of sync type, file system, and filename. A lot of people have has issues with double quotes (") in the name over the years. now I know, after having the issue and looking it up. It might be more surprising if the algorithm “realized” it hadn’t backed up the files it failed to detect needed to be backed up. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
Jud Posted February 15, 2023 Share Posted February 15, 2023 2 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said: OK, I re-ran the iDrive backup from scratch and have some information about number of files, size of backup and length of time it took to run. Backup Start Time: Sun Feb 12 22:04:05 2023 Files considered for backup: 336482 Files backed up now: 336482 Backup Set Size: 15.04 TB Backup End Time: Wed Feb 15 09:36:24 2023 That's roughly 15TB uploaded in 2.5 days if my math is correct. What's your max upload speed from your ISP if you know? Did you check during the upload to try to see actual speed? Here we've got 1.2Gbps download but only 40Mbps upload. One never knows, do one? - Fats Waller The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. - Einstein Computer, Audirvana -> optical Ethernet to Fitlet3 -> Fibbr Alpha Optical USB -> iFi NEO iDSD DAC -> Apollon Audio 1ET400A Mini (Purifi based) -> Vandersteen 3A Signature. Link to comment
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