Do you regularly back up quite large amounts of data (~500GB) from your home PC to a remote location?

Question

Backup

What is the best way to solve this problem? I regularly make backups on the HDD, which is in my apartment - but I want to protect myself from fires, etc. I found the solution for myself in that once every six months I upload a backup to a Yandex disk, but the slow upload speed (1 - 2 Mbps) upsets me. I don't know how to influence the rate of return upwards. Maybe there are some more convenient methods than casting to the cloud?

Answer 1

What is the best way to solve this problem?

See what the problem is.
If the problem is in the transmission speed, you need either a wider channel, or minimize the amount of transmitted data.
For example, you make a backup for six months - do you really add 500GB in six months that need to be archived? Or are you just retransferring data that is already in the archive?

Answer 2

Try copying only the data that has changed.
For example, the rclone... utility allows you to use the sync key.
Checks and compares files and copies only changed data.