Everybody knows NAS drives, and everyone knows Dropbox. But my quest for cloud webspace lead me somewhere else – pCloud. Read on to learn more. Taking the recent news of the horrible malware that simply wiped out data from My Cloud NAS drives by Western Digital in account, I wanted to write a little bit about my personal backup solutions. 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. 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. For my personal backup, sync and transfer use-cases I rely on completely different services though. Backups: On-Site and Off-site Experts say it’s best to have an on-site and an off-site solution. For my backups, I usually use bare HDDs in a docking station like this one . Here I can quickly create two identical backups of important data, mainly footage. Usually, I take one back home and leave one at the office. That’s very simple and should be standard :-) Backups: Online and Offline On top of that, I use a cloud-based backup solution called Backblaze. This added a third backup of important data off-site and online. Also, all of my devices kept a constant backup of system data as well – that is convenient. Network-attached devices or USB HDDs stay backed up as well for...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 1 July, 2021