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Although this question is a personal opinion, it may help to several other people if we put the positive and negative points of every technology.
I have a server in the USA, with link 1 Gbt/s Full Duplex, today not consumption nor 2% of this band. I need to make an application to backup photos on that server. Today with almost 5 million photos and 300GB. On average 1000 photos of 400kb every day. I store these photos physically and their names are in MS SQL.
Which is best:
Make an application that will store in my Onedrive account (1tb) or locally in my company?
I initially tried to create a Onedrive drive drive mapping and would do so via Robocopy (command application that does bulk copy) to that drive. But Windows 2008 R2 does not allow me this feature.
Advantages of Onedrive (I believe it will be faster than downloading the photos from that location)
Downside: The Software will become more complex since I will probably need the Onedrive SDK.
I accept suggestions and points that I should consider in this type of application. How to download file by file or from a single ZIP file.
Backup on Onedrive is probably safer. If this service provides an API or something, for integration with other applications, I believe it is the best option.
– mau humor
looks like it does. https://dev.onedrive.com/
– mau humor
There is an api and even some code ready for the onedrive sdk, it would be more complex than a simple download program, but it has the advantage of being cloud and in theory there works as if it were network, I download the onedrive at 20mb/s
– Dorathoto