Cloud Backup?

[lxskllr]

Would I be wrong in thinking that file versioning would potentially expand the storage needs by a LOT?

Someone working all day on a complex CAD drawing, saves his work every 10-15 minutes ... 30 to 50 versions saved of, say, a 100MB file. That would add up.

Yea, that would be overkill. I think ideally you'd have a daily snapshot. That way if things went tits up, you'd only lose a day of work. Even that might run into space issues though, even for our small office.

Not really sure how to approach it all yet. I think the first thing is getting offsite backup while it's still fresh in everyone's head. I've wanted to do it for awhile, and this is a good opportunity. After that, I can do a little reading on autocad, and poke around the directories to see how it's all stored, and maybe something will come to me.

 

[Exterous]

Would I be wrong in thinking that file versioning would potentially expand the storage needs by a LOT?

Someone working all day on a complex CAD drawing, saves his work every 10-15 minutes ... 30 to 50 versions saved of, say, a 100MB file. That would add up.

Good versioning software only tracks the deltas between the files and doesn't actually have full copies of each iteration

 

[JSt0rm]

I have 12.5tb on backblaze. It wont backup network attached storage so make sure you are mirroring that on the actual pc you are using for backup.

 

[JSt0rm]

Would I be wrong in thinking that file versioning would potentially expand the storage needs by a LOT?

Someone working all day on a complex CAD drawing, saves his work every 10-15 minutes ... 30 to 50 versions saved of, say, a 100MB file. That would add up.

But that adds up on the local drive as well.

 

[JSt0rm]

What I do is a timemachine back up every night of my actual projects drive. I then have backblaze uploading my projects folder along with my old projects and all my assets. I have 2 copies of my sound effects library locally.

 

[Hoober]

I’ve used crashplan pro for years for a small business. Works well.

 

[JSt0rm]

I’ve used crashplan pro for years for a small business. Works well.

crashplan killed the home line. I was on it until then and migrated to backblaze. Honestly backblaze is faster but you cant upload network attached storage. I bit the bullet and mirrored my synology to internal disks,.