Solved Cloud storage for Macrium backups.

Does Macrium offer cloud storage for backups and if so can you restore directly from the cloud?

No, they do not directly offer that... you'd have to create your backup and store it on Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, etc. on your own. You can not restore direct from the cloud either, you have to have direct access to the files, via recovery drive, network drive, etc.

ElizabethW said:

Does Macrium offer cloud storage for backups and if so can you restore directly from the cloud?

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I doubt it -- but plenty of cheap cloud storage available -- I think Ms offers around 1TB of cloud storage for private users quite cheaply as does Google Drive --If you have Office/365 theres also a reasonable amount of cloud storage offered free as part of your subscription.

100GB for around 1.85 EUR a month (for non Office/365 subscribers) seems a good deal -- typical backup of a Windows system with Macrium is around 40 GB -- always keep data and OS separate,

Of course to recover a backup image stored on the cloud you'd need a working computer with Internet access to retrieve the data.

I use cloud as well as local off line storage. That way you are doubly covered.

Ms cloud storage ((One Drive) seems to be super resilient and secure (backed by the Military Strength security of it's Azure commercial cloud service). Google Drive is also pretty reasonable and resilient too.

Cheers

jimbo

Storing Macrium images in the cloud may not be advantageous unless you have a very large upload pipe. Backups can get very large.

As Jimbo says, with a Microsoft/Office 365 subscription, each account gets 1TB of space.

Macrium not offering recovery directly from the cloud is the game-decider for me.

I have done this several times with Acronis cleanly and efficiently using only the emergency thumb drive. That means that if my local drives where I also store backups are ever compromised then I have a fallback.

Acronis costs me more than Macrium would but it is restoration, not backing up, that is what should IMHO be the deciding factor.

Thanks for all your help and suggestions.

@ElizabethW


To me... storing backups in the cloud is like storing your money in your mailbox.

I understand what you say about backing up your backups, but I do it a bit differently.
I literally make copies of my backups on yet another drive.

Some people copy their backups to external drives also.

I just use a free program called Karen's Replicator to copy one storage drive to another.
Karen's Replicator has it's own scheduler too. So you don't even have to do it manually.







In case you can't tell... I don't really trust the cloud. ^^

Like Ghot, I don't really trust the cloud. And apart from that, my upload speeds make cloud storage impractical.

Most of my machines have a separate data partition where its monthly Macrium Full image is stored, for the others the image is created directly onto an external HDD. Each image is then copied to two other external drives. At any one time I have at least three copies of the latest image, and as a backup I keep at least one Full image from the previous two months.

I store mine on my local network using a Synology DS218 NAS, nice an safe under the desk!

Bree said:

Like Ghot, I don't really trust the cloud. And apart from that, my upload speeds make cloud storage impractical.

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If I was going to store my macrium backup in the cloud, it would certainly be an encrypted backup.

my upload speeds also make storing backups in the cloud impractical

I encrypt all my Macrium backups - don't want a hacker being able to browse through my system at their leisure. My backups are to a fast local nvme drive. I make copies to an external hard drive that are normally offline.

If you encrypt, use a strong password and cypher strength in Macrium, especially if you are going to store it on a removable drive or in the cloud (which, as oothers, I would not do myself). I use a 16 character password and AES-256 (yoiu need 15 characters for this). With medium compression. This takes me about a minute to backup my C: partition.