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Is there an reasonably-priced icloud backup service that works with the Mac Mini Server?

I'm looking to backup 3 HDs attached to the Mac Mini Server (about 3TB total) to an icloud service. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Mac mini, OS X Server

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 9:15 AM

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Mar 5, 2015 4:18 PM in response to Mapmaker01

You seem to be unable to agree to any of these recommendations based on the 'estimates' for the upload times. These will vary wildly based on how busy your internet connection is & if you have enabled any throttling in the app etc.

Have you considered doing an actual test?

Create a 1GB folder with of a mixture of your files, sign up for each service, see how long it takes to upload the same folder, disable each service (or uninstall) after each backup to be sure it isn't stealing throughput from other services.

You may be able to do it using the free trials.



Another option is Arq (which uses Amazon S3, Glacier or Dropbox).

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/


You may be better off asking a neighbour to store a NAS that you can sync over wifi if the internet is too slow for the data - how often does the 3TB change too, offsite may be impractical for all of it with large change sets & a slow connection.

Is there an reasonably-priced icloud backup service that works with the Mac Mini Server?

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