Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.

One reason Cloud backup is not realistic for me is that even in the unlikely event of optimal conditions, assuming I had already put in the several months of 24-hour a day uploading it would require to put my data into the Cloud, in the event of catastrophic failure it would take almost three weeks of continuous downloading to get it back. ...
Some cloud backup services will/can FedEx your entire backup to you on a new hard drive. So recovery can be via overnight courier.

Same for sending the original 'seed' backup to them. You create a backup set, courier the hard drive, then increment backups from there via the cloud.

The big win with cloud backup is that the saved data is physically far removed from your locale and within the cloud service is also redundantly protected. And the continuous incremental cloud backup process means the data exposed to actual loss is only the most recent few minutes or hours worth.


Edited by K447 (26/04/2017 18:09)