The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/crick_in_my_neck on 2024-07-09 14:10:19.
I back up my computer's two disks by creating an image/incrementals with Macrium Reflect and putting them on external drives. Twice a year or so I switch those out with ones in a safe deposit box. In case of earthquake or fire or whatever (the bank is not far) I would like the ability to create a full restore from the cloud as well (for the main drive--the other drive is just file storage). It's proving more difficult than I thought. Backblaze and IDrive get poor marks for actually saving all of the files you think they are saving, and while IDrive offers a physical disk to restore from (EDIT: BB does as well, actually), one person said it took over a month to get 1.5TB of data from them this way. I've thought of uploading my Macrium images somewhere for the sake of simplicity but it would take 3 days every week to upload a fresh image. If I uploaded one image for restore and then just did the regular IDrive/Backblaze backup process in addition from then on (instead of incrementals for that specific image) I would still face the issue of not knowing if everything was truly saved like other people have found (also don't like the accumulating versions of files and this would end up with me getting gouged for overages or paying for twice what I need). I figure the Disk Clone feature might solve at least the problem of knowing if files were backed up since it is (theoretically) the whole image, but it has no feedback or reviews at all anywhere. This is also true for IDrive Mirror, which is cheaper and appears just meant for this alone: https://www.idrivemirror.com, but appears to be even more obscure and unknown. None of this solves IDrive potentially slow-walking a recovery disk in case of catastrophe, but at least that would be something if it existed and was coming eventually.
I don't want to pay for a service and find out too late like many people seem to that it doesn't have my info when it counts. Has anyone used IDrive's Mirror or Disk Clone offerings? I don't have a spare computer to test recovery on with a trial...Thanks. Any alternate suggestions to my needs (full bare-metal restore from cloud for about 1TB for my regular drive, and another drive of files that can just be saved regularly at 3.25TB) would be most welcome.