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Published:
2017-02-10 17:06:03
Imported:
2021-09

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I've been struggling with how to backup my YT channel for a while now. Google Takeout produces 600 GB archives, which I really have nowhere safe to put. I have a 1 TB RAID array at home, but it's mostly full of hard drive images. I bought 1 TB of Google Drive storage a while back, but that only holds a single backup at a time, which means that in order to make a new backup, I have to delete the current one. Not good practice!

So today, I spent about $400 upgrading my backup system so that I can keep good backups of my channel. What a disaster it would be if I lost all my content somehow! And I was able to spend that money thanks to you all. Just wanted to let you know that your support is making a big difference for me and say thanks very much.

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Anonymous

Thanks again, Joshua. Your content is invaluable for anyone involved in this hobby. It'd be a disaster if any of it were lost.

Anonymous

You are most welcome Joshua and thank you to you too for making such great contents

Anonymous

You make some excellent content so paying so the small monthly donation is really worth it. Have you considered Amazon's s3 servers for backup?

thedroneracingengineer
>>3888492

I signed up for the free trial of Amazon's cloud storage, but the user interface was BAD. Really bad. The other thing is that Google Takeout needs to be able to upload to the cloud service natively. Otherwise, I have to manually download 50 files, one at a time, by doing right-click download. Currently, Google Takeout only supports OneDrive, DropBox, and Google Drive. And OneDrive (which I also have 1 TB of storage on, via my work's Office 365 subscription) times out halfway through and fails. I figured since Drive is a Google product, it's sure to work. The other problem is that Drive will sell you 1 TB for $10 / mo, and 10 TB for $100 / mo but nothing in between. If I could buy 2 TB for $20 / mo I would.

Anonymous

Backups are damn important =) I love my old / small HP microProliant server. And when my mdadm sends me a mail that one of the HDDs "died" I cry for the money of a new HDD but not for my files ;) Enjoy the security =)

Anonymous

I use Amazon Glacier storage and use Arq as the tool to locally encrypt and upload whatever I want. I have dozens of gigabytes and and pay less than 3 dollars a month in storage. It's great for disaster retrieval. I have a 4 disk dual gigabit readynas at home with just under 5 TB of storage where all local backups go.

Anonymous

Glad to hear it! Would be horrible to lose all that. Such a wealth of information! Thank you!

thedroneracingengineer
>>3888605

The big disadvantage of Amazon is that I have to manually download and re-upload the archive. Google Takeout creates 50 GB archives at the biggest, but in reality the way it splits up the data means that I would have to manually download 50 some-odd files by doing right-click save-as. If I use OneDrive, Dropbox, or Google Drive, Google Takeout can automatically export to them. I wish it would automatically export to Glacier. That would be amazing.

Anonymous

I guess I'm not following "exporting" I can pick and choose specific files to retrieve from the Amazon Blob via my Arq program and it just exports whatever I desire.

Anonymous

Your welcome Josh...keep up the great work brother

Anonymous

I am utilizing your older content as I am still new to quads. If you lost it I would be in deep Do-Do. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Anonymous

Joshua, take a look at the pricing for Amazon Glacier, archive storage so not a 'drive' as such, but pretty cheap and effective for backup. Tool I use is 'Fast Glacier' $0.004 per GB/Month

Anonymous

We use Dropbox for our backup. It is automatic. I am not sure if this will work for you.

Anonymous

Awesome!

Anonymous

just signed up to your patreon as promised joshua. you make amazing content so anything to help you keep up the good work!! when i work out how to send you a message unless i can do it here i would like to be invited to the chat room you have for some technical support on a new board i have coming :) thank you.

thedroneracingengineer
>>3888762

It would, but it's more or less the same price as Google Drive I think. Drive is useful because it's guaranteed that Google Takeout will export directly to Drive without me having to download all the files locally and then re-upload them. Since they're both Google products, that is. When I try to export from Takeout directly to OneDrive, it often fails for some reason.

thedroneracingengineer
>>3888654

I mean transfer the backup (600 GB) directly over the Internet from Google to OneDrive, DropBox, or Google Drive, without me having to download it locally and re-upload it to the cloud storage over my 50/12 Mbps home Internet.

Anonymous

welcome mate, glad you're backing up. well worth the dollas.

Anonymous

No problem Joshua. It's for you educating people in the quad racing hobby. If you ever have to be transparent, make sure you use a separate account and consider a second backup at another location for your videos if you care about them.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

Backup is a very good idea. You never know. It would be horrible to lose all that great YouTube work. ;)

Anonymous

Sounds worth while man...