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The chink in the armor of all these strategies is upstream bandwidth. I have lots of data to back up. If I had to upload it all, it would seriously soak up my upstream bandwidth. If I had symmetrical, 1Gbit Google fiber I wouldn't have to worry, but I don't.

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I know Crashplan will let you mail them a hard drive for the initial seed. I think other services have this too. The solution posted isn't really much less than Crashplan from what I can see.

Backblaze AND Amazon will do this as well. You can mail a drive to both of them.

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