Okay, I bet most of the users of CloudBacko would like to know the backup speed performance of cloud storage that CloudBacko supports. So, we’ve done a simple test by backing up 100,000 small files to the 6 most popular storage, including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3, Dropbox (free), Google Drive (free), Microsoft OneDrive (free).
Here’s the result:

Microsoft Azure |
6 min 58 sec |
Google Cloud Storage |
7 min 41 sec |
Amazon S3 |
8 min 20 sec |
Dropbox (free) |
9 min 47 sec |
Google Drive (free) |
14 min 15 sec |
Microsoft OneDrive (free) |
47 min 21 sec* |
This test result is for reference only. It may vary upon geographical location, bandwidth available, machine specification, hard drive speed, and other factors. If you want to do the test with the same 100,000 files, you can download the zipped file by clicking here. Unzip it to a local hard drive, and then create an individual backup set for each cloud storage. Run a full backup to each cloud storage to test the speed.
*Due to the limitation of Microsoft OneDrive free account, backup to Microsoft OneDrive took much longer.
Machine used in our test
- Intel Core i3 540@3.07MHZ
- Windows 2008 R2 Standard
- 8 GB RAM
- C: 70GB SAS drive
- D: 1.8 TB RAID 0 (7200 RPM SATA II)
- Internet connection: 100MBit (shared)
- CloudBacko Pro version used: 1.9.0.0
- Backup set created with CloudBacko Pro 1.9.0.0, and the test files (backup source) are located on D drive
- Geographical location: Hong Kong
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