I currently store most of my data on an unlimited Google Drive system that my school provides, but I am looking to move to something more redundant. Do you guys have backup applications? S3? Something of the like? I am curious.
I would not want to store everything on a Google Drive. If something happens and Google (or some other company with multiple services) blocks my primary address, all my data can go with it.<p>I'd prefer a dedicated backup service. Personally, I use Backblaze for backing up my PC. Still have to set up a process to back up my other devices on to my PC, so that Backblaze automatically takes care of it.<p>Actually, I am also looking for an option to clone my Google Drive elsewhere, perhaps to Box/Dropbox due to the same concern as above.
I store my important documents on Google Drive, and have tarsnap back up that folder twice a day. Code gets backed up to private repos on Github.<p>In the past I've used Backblaze and can really recommend it -- good interface and reasonable pricing for unlimited storage.
I generally like 2 backups of my data (one each on and offsite), and one bootable backup of my system drive for quick disaster recovery.<p>Which specific options to use for each depends on many factors (budget, OSs, how often you're connected to a lan etc), but I've been very happy with Backblaze for offsite. It's unfussy, relatively cheap, and I've found it ultra reliable.<p>My current onsite solution (for a macbook) is Carbon Copy Cloner over ethernet to a Raspberry Pi with a large external HD. I also use CCC for my disaster recovery backup (to a local SSD over USB).
I don't backup, I keep all the stuff I care about in a reputable cloud (iCloud, Office 365) and that's it. My machine is pretty much a thin client - if I ever loose it, I'd only need like 30 minutes to set up a new one with my cloud accounts and get back to work. I religiously try to keep as little local "state" as possible on the machine for this exact reason.
I store my data in a five node ceph cluster via CephFD, backed up to a ZFS RAIDz2 array on another box (pull backups) and also to crashplan for my off-site backup.