Advice on multiple cloud backup services

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I'm running primarily on a desktop Windows 7 and do work for multiple clients. I'm paranoid about backup - I've come too close to disasters. I use Acronis True Image to do incremental drive backups to a Drobo NAS in the same room. I run SYncback Pro to make backups of crucial data onto two different NAS units. I have Carbonite backing up crucial data and I have Crashplan backing up to their cloud and to another desktop in the same building and to a second computer in a building 5 minutes away and also to the Drobo.

I'm still considering another cloud backup service such as Backblaze - but I'm concerned about bandwidth fights between different backups.

I planned on doing some backups to BluRay and storing them off-site- but it never seems to happen.

The big weakness is that the only full drive backups are stored on the Drobo in the same room.



 
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You have drive images and data backups in multiple locations.

What would you do if your main PC were to die right now? Not just the drives, the entire PC (or your house) gets hit by lightning or flood.

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You have drive images and data backups in multiple locations.

What would you do if your main PC were to die right now? Not just the drives, the entire PC (or your house) gets hit by lightning or flood.
 
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MDG

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Buy a new PC- install at the office 5 minutes away. Buy a Windows 7 DVD [oops probably not for sale any more] - retrieve an offsite USB flash drive with a program that has crucial web sites/passwords and software serial numbers

use the DVD from Acronis Rescue Media Builder. [oops I don't have one offsite and the one here is outdated] to start things moving - connect the Drobo [assuming it was not destroyed with the desktop crash] and restore drives.

Use Carbonite or Crashplan to more restore recent files since the drive backups are weekly

I see I need to work on this more