Anyone here use online storage services?

[archcommus]

I'm considering some options to keep a secondary backup of a few of my files in addition to my external hard drive. I have tried my thumb drive, but that requires zipping them with a password just in case I ever lose it and that's a bit of a pain. I was thinking about free online storage services. Are any decent and secure? Anyone use one or many? I'm not interested in monthly payment services.

Edit: What do you think of Xdrive?

 

[RossMAN]

How about 600MB online storage with FTP access for free?

No domain required, you can use a subdomain like http://archcommus.atotchat.org

 

[Laughingman12]

box.net

 

[deadlyapp]

how much space needed?

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
How about 600MB online storage with FTP access for free?

No domain required, you can use a subdomain like http://archcommus.atotchat.org

FTP access! How can I pass that up. Totally forgot about this.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: deadlyapp
how much space needed?

I'll pretty much use what's available.

 

[archcommus]

I got the ATOT Chat account, thanks again for that suggestion!

For more storage, what do you think of Xdrive? 5 GB free, run by AOL apparently.

 

[dighn]

I use gmail for this purpose
the files I backup regularly are very small (text/xml files)

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: RossMAN
How about 600MB online storage with FTP access for free?

No domain required, you can use a subdomain like http://archcommus.atotchat.org

FTP access! How can I pass that up. Totally forgot about this.

Did you figure it out?

I also use BQBackup.com

 

[DrPizza]

Two away from home back-up copies of stuff that's important: one gets mailed to a gmail account as an attachment, the other to a hotmail account as an attachment. 1 email and I have some redundancy.

 

[dquan97]

25GB through http://amd.streamload.com

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: RossMAN
How about 600MB online storage with FTP access for free?

No domain required, you can use a subdomain like http://archcommus.atotchat.org

FTP access! How can I pass that up. Totally forgot about this.

Did you figure it out?

I also use BQBackup.com

Yep I have the ATOT Chat account working fine, thanks. BQBackup seems nice but it costs, I'm looking for free options since this is only to supplement my external hard drive that already has everything on it.

Originally posted by: dquan97
25GB through http://amd.streamload.com

25 GB, seems great. But, only 1 GB of downloads per month? So say I had 12 GB stored and I actually needed to fetch it due to drive failure or whatever, does that mean I'd have to get it 1 GB at a time over the course of a year?

 

[archcommus]

Xdrive seems to offer some great services. It has a utility you can download which lets you access your Xdrive storage space as if it was a network drive on your LAN. Using this utility you can even schedule backups so it'll start synchronizing and uploading to your folder overnight or whenever.