imdavid555 Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 Was thinking of making a cloud backup of my arcade cabinet with something like Crash Plan or Back Blaze. Does anyone have any experience with this/currently doing this? Asking because I'm not sure what would happen since I have lots of roms.
Jason Carr Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 I use CrashPlan for everything currently, and I highly recommend it. They will encrypt all your files with your password, and supposedly they don't even have access to them. I've been using them for 5 years and never had any issues at all. Not to mention they've saved me from hard drive failures many times. I've literally uploaded (and downloaded) over 25 TB to their servers. 1
imdavid555 Posted September 29, 2016 Author Posted September 29, 2016 Thanks Jason. That's good to hear! Didn't even realize crash plan will encrypt your files until you mentioned it just now. Back Blaze does this as well apparently. Now I feel much more confident that it wouldn't be a problem doing this. I'm hesitant to pull the trigger though on Crash plan because Back Blaze is $50 compared to Crash plans $60.
imdavid555 Posted October 12, 2016 Author Posted October 12, 2016 Just thought I'd give an update. Did some Testing and more research. Crash Plan definitely seemed the way to go especially since they keep deleted files forever making it worth the extra $10. After doing some testing with it on my cabinet, it was taking up 1 GB of ram while running in the background. Contacted support and they forwarded me to an FAQ where they recommend having at least 1GB of ram for every 1TB of data being backed up. https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Troubleshooting/Adjusting_CrashPlan_Settings_For_Memory_Usage_With_Large_Backups Thought that was pretty dumb, so it started trying out BackBlaze. It barely takes up any ram on my system and seems to run really well. Upload speeds seem to be the same as crashplan hitting the 10Mb mark which is my max (Live in NYC and upload speeds with Time Warner Cable blow!). Only thing is Backblaze keeps deleted files for up to 30 days only and retrieving files isn't as easy as crash plan since you have to go to their website and do it. Aside from that, it seems great! Probably going to go with BackBlaze once my trial is over. seems to be the way to go for my setup. Have about 3-4TB of data to backup which is going to take forever lol (Shows maybe 4 months)
Jason Carr Posted October 12, 2016 Posted October 12, 2016 Yes, that is admittedly my experience with Crashplan. I tend to run 16 gigs of RAM on my systems lately so it's not much of an issue for me, but I can see how that would be a problem.
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