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Online backup: Which do you prefer?
GnomeTank
What the what?Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
What the what?Portland, OregonRegistered User regular
I am finally gonna bite the bullet and get an online backup setup, because I have probably 1500 dollars in drum'n'bass singles I use to DJ that I simply can't lose. I've converted my entire vinyl collection digital plus I buy all digital now, and to lose it would be...very bad. Plus I have family photos and such.
Which do you guys prefer? The two big ones I know of are Carbonite and Mozy. Any pros and cons to either that you guys know of? Are there any smaller alternatives that I haven't heard of that are really good?
Obviously long term data security is important, so I'd like to stick to one that is big enough that it will likely be around in five or ten years.
Which do you guys prefer? The two big ones I know of are Carbonite and Mozy. Any pros and cons to either that you guys know of? Are there any smaller alternatives that I haven't heard of that are really good?
Obviously long term data security is important, so I'd like to stick to one that is big enough that it will likely be around in five or ten years.
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I would highly recommend Acronis True Image backup. Its very simple to setup and use, plus it's inexpensive.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/index.html
Opinions are appreciated!
EDIT: If you go with Dropbox use someone's referral so you both get extra space.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
If you only had about 2GB, I would think Drop Box would be enough for your needs. Although I've never used it myself. No risk to try it when it is free though...
This would require me to take my lazy ass to a bank every few months. Unlikely, as good as the suggestion is.
I'll give dropbox a shot (Smart Hero gets the referral because he was first and pro-active).
Has anyone tried this? Waaaay more trouble than it's worth?
Carbonite is probably the best right now. Not only does in encrypt files but it allows you to access information as if you just had files saved on a remote drive. Their service works very well.
I personally use MS Sky Drive because it's free. Mozy I don't have any experience with.
Dropbox uses S3 :winky:
Also, you can get up to like 8GB for free from Dropbox, if you jump through some hoops. I think. I can't connect to their website, which means I just jinxed them. The service is up though.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight, it's heavy stuff.
In practice the distinction is largely meaningless
Current Mozy user here, and something similar to this happens to me. I don't think it's a problem on their side, though, since I run into issues loading web pages too (Chrome says it can't find the server at all, but hitting refresh gets it to work).
It seems to have worked pretty well apart from that, though, but I haven't (knocking on wood) had the need to retrieve files from the backup service yet.
Another thing to note is the software now has the option to use an external hard disk as a backup location too, in addition to the online storage. I don't use that option, though, since I don't have an external drive that's big enough :oops:
The difference in purposes comes through in the pricing and capacities. Mozy is $5/month for unlimited data. For DropBox it's $10/month for up to 50GB and $20/month for 100GB.
I also use dropbox and have been considering getting the 10 GB upgrade and just using it instead of jungledisk. The nice thing about dropbox is that it is available on my iphone and my CR-48. You have to adjust to putting things in your dropbox folder instead of just keeping them where you had them before but everything syncs everywhere and you don't have to fuss with backup settings like what file types or folders to back up.
I have heard good things about Carbonite but have never used it. You can use dropbox up to 2GB for free so you can see if it works for you otherwise go with something like carbonite.
The backup part of it is great and runs in the background so you'll never notice it going. I do find the restoring to be kind of weak though. There isn't much to the status on the restore and it's not very user friendly for choosing what to restore or any good way to manage what is currently backed up on their service. I also had one issue where it was complaining about restoring a particular file and getting stuck on it until I removed it online (luckily a non important one). I've been thinking of getting a windows copy to try out and see if their UI is any better.