And last but not least there was pCloud – a company that I did not have on my radar at all – but they jumped on the map with an intriguing offer: a one-time payment for a lifetime license at 65% off (an offer they have right now as well).ĭropbox is the “top-dog”. iCloud was an obvious candidate as well, as I am living in a total-Apple environment. The final three options came to be Dropbox, as a proven and reliable partner in the past years. And there are plenty of different companies and offerings – all with their pros and cons. But before I simply took the “D-train”, I went searching for possible alternatives. Then Dropbox introduced the limits of synced devices on their free account and pushed me to invest in cloud space. And having the complete Backup on Backblaze, this system was good for me. For the sync with Dropbox, I used a free account and was quite happy with the limited but through friend-referrals and other offerings extended 15GB space. For collaboration and client exchange this is defacto industry standard. Cloud-Space & File Sync: Dropbox – the industry standardįor years I opted for Dropbox for the most current projects to stay in sync on all of my devices. And for about 5 bucks a month it’s also very affordable. Network-attached devices or USB HDDs stay backed up as well for 30 days after disconnecting. Also, all of my devices kept a constant backup of system data as well – that is convenient. This added a third backup of important data off-site and online. On top of that, I use a cloud-based backup solution called Backblaze. That’s very simple and should be standard :-) Backups: Online and Offline Usually, I take one back home and leave one at the office. Here I can quickly create two identical backups of important data, mainly footage. For my backups, I usually use bare HDDs in a docking station like this one. Backups: On-Site and Off-siteĮxperts say it’s best to have an on-site and an off-site solution. We still had the drive connected as a backup for some template files and some fun photos, but quickly disconnected it as we read about the data breaches.įor my personal backup, sync and transfer use-cases I rely on completely different services though. We have one of these WD Drives at the CineD office, that we used to transfer files to our editors abroad before we switched to frame.io. Taking the recent news of the horrible malware that simply wiped out data from My Book Live NAS drives by Western Digital in account, I wanted to write a little bit about my personal backup solutions and how I fell in love with pCloud – a dropbox alternative with killer features and a really attractive pricepoint. But my quest for cloud webspace lead me somewhere else – pCloud. Everybody knows NAS drives, and everyone knows Dropbox.
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