Do You Use An Online Backup Service?

joelsgirl

joelsgirl

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Recently, I thought I had lost my EHD while I was traveling, and I realized I really need to find a new backup service. I had a bad experience with the last one I used, so once my subscription expired, I just stopped backing up to a server.

If I had actually lost my EHD, I would have lost all of my layouts (except the ones that I haven't printed yet) and all of my supplies. Basically, I would probably have just given up scrapbooking altogether if I had; I'm barely hanging on by a thread anyway. But now that I've found it, I've renewed my love for scrapbooking and want to make sure my stuff stays safe. Any recommendations?
 
I finally learned my lesson after way too many computer crashes and hard drive failures.

I use Backblaze now and it’s been amazing. Since I started using it several years ago I’ve had two catastrophic failures and it’s saved my butt every time.

You download the software and it takes ages to do the initial backup, but once that’s done it backs up as often as you set it to- manually, once a day, once a week, etc.

When you have a major event, like a computer failure, they send you a hard drive with your backup on it (for free). You have a set amount of time (I want to say a month) to transfer all of your data and send the hard drive back. If you don’t send it back on time they charge you extra for the hard drive.

I think you can also download all of your data, but that would take a very long time. Although you do have access to your files online. So let’s say you deleted one file by accident and backup daily, you could login online and download that one file.

Hope that all makes sense.

I was hesitant at first about the investment, but it’s honestly not that cost prohibitive and it’s absolutely worth the time and energy it saves… not to mention the heartache of losing old photos or old scrapbooking kits that can never be downloaded again.
 
I also use Backblaze and am so thankful for it because my laptop crashed and the computer tech wasn't ever able to get it started. I was able to redownload what I needed directly from the website. It took a long time but at least it was safe.
 
It's scary to think how easily our scrapping stuff could be wiped out!!!

I used Backblaze for years but all of a sudden things weren't backing up properly. I now use iDrive and it's been great (knocking on wood). I've had to do a complete restore and they sent an EHD to me. I copied everything from that back to my computer and sent it back to them - it was easy peasy.
 
I also use backblaze for all my scrapping stuff. I use amazon photos & google photos also for my photos- but not scrapping stuff.
 
I use Backblaze. They saved my butt one time when I was poised to lose everything. At that time, they sent me an EHD with all my digital content, and I had to pay for the EHD. Now, they send it to you on an EHD, but you are able to retrieve your documents and then return the EHD at no cost to you.

I don't really think about it backing up. It just does. I do get notifications if for some reason the app gets closed or something else I've done causes it to stop.

I can't rate them highly enough. Money well spent in my opinion!
 
I use OneDrive cloud service. I like being able to log on from any computer and access all my stuff instantly.
 
I've used Backblaze for years. I love the peace of mind I have that if one of my EHDs was to die, I could recover everything easily!
 
I use Backblaze as well. Months ago my external hard drive died and they sent one with all my files on it. I could either pay and keep the one they sent or copy the files and send it back. I copied the files because I bought an external hard drive with more space.
 
Like JillW, I used Backblaze for many years but then it didn't backup consistently and actually caused me to lose internet connection quite often. I found out when my computer got fried during a power outage during a tornado warning. For awhile I used multiple EHD's and even now when I purchase new stuff it gets saved on both my hard drive and an EHD.

10 months ago, after getting fiber internet, I signed up for iDrive. It has worked flawlessly since then. I'm very happy with it.
 
I follow the "3 2 1" rule: have three different backups, two different forms of media, one off-site copy. Here's a link to a Backblaze article about that rule. (Yes, I'm linking you to an explanation given by a cloud storage service, which may seem self-serving of them rofl, but it's a good breakdown.)

Currently I have four EHDs at home. I keep as much as I can on my desktop as well, but I don't have room for *everything*. I also have 2 EHDs at my parents' home, which I usually update or swap out once or twice a year. They live in a different part of the country than I do, so fingers crossed a natural disaster where I live won't take out their home as well. And I use Backblaze as my cloud backup. I haven't had a problem with them, but I also don't fully trust The Cloud because all it is is a bunch of storage devices located somewhere else. Whatever issues could befall my EHDs can befall their massive storage.

What I might suggest is backing up the full-resolution JPGs of your LOs to Amazon Photos, if you have Prime. They have unlimited photo storage, and thankfully to Amazon, all JPGs are photos. :) Plus, you can also back up your actual photos there. I am not as consistent with backing up to Amazon, but it is a nice way to back up your photos/LOs. Plus, if you have an Echo Show, you can set up your device to show your photos. I love looking at my Show in the kitchen and going down memory lane in the morning as I make my cup of coffee.
 
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