New hubiC offers
hubic.com
hubic.com
Have you found a better alternative for duplicity backups?
Actually hubiC doesn't want you to use its API unless you're a developer, which means you must pass the steps necessary to "create an application", after which you will be able to use all API calls. It's burdensome but doable.
hubiC makes it astonishingly hard for someone to create an app where a user just puts your account username and password and starts using it. If I was negative I'd say it's a scheme to prevent people actually filling their whole quota, because the only simple way they can do it is through the web ui or through the official syncing app.
Love the services, but the billing system must cost them a huge amount of customers - both customers that find it too time consuming, or customers that forget and are forcibly ejected!
Maybe someone from Stripe can persuade OVH that PayPal is not the best way to process payments (please?)
It also does not depend on me having a credit card. Which I do not, because I do not require one and having one would add a fee to my account.
The best solution is iDeal, but sadly that is a national thing.
The system could definitely do with an overhaul though the wording in some places was very confusing.
I think there is a distinction to be made between syncing (Dropbox, Google Drive, Barracuda Copy, Microsoft OneDrive and so on) and back ups. The providers try to blur the lines with features like trash can (where files go when you delete and you have to delete again), file history so you can go to a previous version of a file, selective synchronization so you can only download files you need and so on. However, I'd say the distinction still remains because we need to measure backups by how easily and quickly we can recover in case of a disaster.
At 10 TB, I'd imagine OP falls in the latter category. If they limited us to 200 kbps unless we paid extra, that'd be a big fail.
That being said, I doubt they'd do that. Here's a screenshot of me reaching 37 mbps peak upload:
https://i.imgur.com/1tSr48U.png
Edit: I take it back. Upload from the web interface stalled. https://i.imgur.com/UC8qWA4.png
My experience is about half a year old now but back then it has been a horrible piece of engineering not only from the client but also from their website (EULA in french only).
Personally, I felt it was not good value for money but rather a cheap service that I wouldn't want to trust with my data let alone backups.
That said, I'd rather have my backups on many cheap providers than on a single expensive one. There are inherent risks in relying on a single company.
This is like the fragmented 20TB hard disk (considers the magnetic upper limit) - even if you had a disk that size the seek times would mean months to take the data off.
It's nice to have but the uplift needs to occur throughout the whole network for there to be benefit.
We're far from the country with the fastest connections, but even here you can get one where it would only take 20 days to upload, and less than a day to download everything, for less than $30/month (and that includes cable TV and a landline with free calls).
The seek times don't matter if you want to read large chunks of data, it's the sustained read/write speeds that do, and it certainly won't take months. Also, I don't think we'll be using magnetic disks for much longer. 1 TB SSD's can be had for <$400 already.
> It's nice to have but the uplift needs to occur throughout the whole network for there to be benefit.
That uplift is happening. South Korea, Japan, and several US cities can already do symmetric gigabit connections to homes at very affordable prices. The world will follow with time.
The vast majority of us can benefit from this. If not your home computers, then your VPSs or something like that.
Someone downthread quoted 10 days at 100Mbps is fine - when that's two years at 1Mbps a common end to end throughput.
Cloud computing is a massive game changer, but while the economics have changed, the laws of physics and calculus of reliability has not - at some point I cannot imagine not saying "my really important data is, once all is said and done, mirrored across those two physical hard disks in this physical location. Preferably encrypted with this key."
Moving across the network to retrieve from disk is always the slowest part of an operation. This is unlikely to stop being true. And until the entire internet thinks nothing of 10TB as a transfer then storing that much "somewhere" is always going to be far far less reliable than planning a storage stack taking into account topology, relevance, usage and risk.
We used to worry about fitting things into 1KB, not a word doc takes 1MB, neither of which trouble any modern network.
But to me, and I may be wrong, we are in the 1KB internet while these guys are offering cloud storage for 1MB word docs.
For example you may want way to backup huge video files, panoramic photos or any other huge files. Obvious solution is your own storage, but usually you'll want at least one extra backup point because HDD these days a lot less reliable than cloud services.
> The upload time / cost must be enormous (on my home DSL it would take all year to upload.
It's sad that not everyone around the world have fast internet connection, but with 100Mb/s it's would take just about 10 days. I personally don't have that fast speed, but from my experience Microsoft OneDrive can handle like 70Mb/s upload just fine.
Despite having a connection that is advertised for 50Mbps down - and I have achieved that speed when accessing hosts relatively close to me - the average speeds I get among all the sites I visit and download files big enough to notice the speed from would appear to be in the 1-2Mbps range.
I'm using OVH for other services (dns, servers) and I'm quite happy with their services though.
Well, duplicity can usually use it. You may have connection problems, because hubic.com is TLS version-intolerant; it'll only use TLSv1.0 (and does NOT negotiate with TLSv1.1/TLSv1.2) with AES-256, AES-128 or 3DES, with RSA and no forward secrecy.
Not what I wanted to see.
> The hubiC infrastructure is made up of 3 server pools, each one with several hundreds of servers and physically hosted in 3 geographically distant OVH datacentres: two in the north of France and one in the west.
The government is however, currently brewing an awful local version of the Patriot Act just as the US seems to be dismantling it.