Must have an unavailable or offline backup. At least one backup should be in a geographically separate area from me. We can assume that all keys and hardware tokens will be lost in a disaster so those must not be required to restore. So must have offsite backups in a different geo-location. If a fire sweeps through North Idaho burning every building but I somehow survive I want my data. My backup threat model (these are the threats which my backups should protect against): If you don’t do this exercise you may not think about something important… like keeping your only backup in the same location as your computer. It’s best practice to think through all the threats you are protecting against. Now if Ting could get permission to run fiber under the railroad tracks and to my house I’d have gigabit upload speed, but until then the less I have to upload from home the better. I like this a little better because living in North Idaho I don’t have a good upload speed so in several cases I’ve been in situations where my remote backups from the NAS would never complete because I don’t have enough bandwidth to keep up. I had been using a strategy where all local and cloud devices backed up to a NAS on my network, and then those backups were relayed to a remote (formerly CrashPlan) backup service. This also gave me a good opportunity to review my backup strategy. I either want to provide my own hardware or pay by the GB.

I’m tired of “unlimited” backup providers like CrashPlan not being able to handle unlimited and going out of business or altering the deal. Protect against my backup threat model (below).Efficient with bandwidth, time, and price.I don’t want to check on the status periodically. Between the demands from all aspects of life I already have trouble doing the thousands of things I should already be doing and I don’t need another thing to remember. I am not going to remember to do something like take a backup on a regular basis.

To start with I noted my requirements for a backup solution: Pray I don’t alter it any further.ĬrashPlan used to be the best offering for backups by far, but those days are gone. Deleting files with no advanced notice is something I might expect from a totalitarian leader, but it isn’t acceptable for a backup service. So long, CrashPlan! After using it for 5 years, CrashPlan with less than a day notice decided to delete many of my files I had backed up.

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