Cloud backup alternatives... MozyHome Free ending

[OldShooter]

I am another one that doesn't want to entrust my private data to anyone.

I have a Synology 2-drive RAID box on our local network. Synology's suite of software includes a cloud app "Cloudstation" which maintains copies of files (of our choice) from our individual machines, so any file is on both my computer and on both of the RAID drives and immune to disk failures. It's totally seamless. Every once in a while I back the Synology box to a large SATA drive that I keep in my fire-resistant gun safe. So I might end up screwed after a really big house fire but short of that I think my data is pretty safe. Monthly cost? Zero.

[TheRunningMan]

Always remember, if you are not paying for the product, you are the product.

I currently have a $99/yr. MS Office 365 subscription that gets me all of the apps for my devices and 1TB of Onedrive cloud storage for each of 5 users. I do keep my Mac backed up with Time Machine as well.

[TheRunningMan]

What is the up-front cost of the software + 2 drive RAID and how often would you replace or upgrade it?

[ransil]

I lost my 2 year old hard drive last week no warning just dead.
most of my stuff is up on google drive, I have an older backup to restore older files but have not been keeping up.

best to get a basic configuration on your computer and then clone that for a backup, then keep data elsewhere.

Not a show stopper but has been a PITA to get everything configured as I had it.