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Backify - free 512 GB of storage in the cloud | Edit: Bad idea apparently

SViper

SViper

Senior member
Use at your own risk:

https://www.backify.com/

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ba...treaming-video-streaming-briefcase,13695.html

Get 'em while they last. Free 512 GB of free cloud space on Backify. No idea on how well this company will do long-term (they went live yesterday apparently). They also are a re-seller for www.livedrive.com.

I personally would use a unique password in case this thing goes down in flames (i.e. hacked).

Their original confirmation emails had users' passwords in plain text, but as of 5 minutes ago when I signed up for an account, the password was hidden.

YMMV. Don't blame me if your sensitive data gets out in the wild. I personally wouldn't put anything sensitive on there to see how this goes.

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Edit: Nice bait & switch move pulled by the company: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5116/backify-closes-free-accounts-starts-to-charge-for-storage

Here is the email I got from Backify:

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Dear SViper,

First of all, we would like to thank you for using Backify. We hope you really liked our service and enjoyed using it.

We regret to inform you that we can not provide free backup services anymore. All free Backify accounts will be closed on November 22, 2011.

In order to prevent your account from deletion, please login into your account and update your Billing Details.

Update Billing Details
Once again, we thank you for using Backify. Please update your billing details before November 22, 2011 to continue using the service.


Thanks,
Backify Team

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After that, I got an email from LiveDrive:

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Dear SViper

We are writing to you regarding BACKIFY.COM who you recently created an online backup account with.

BACKIFY.COM was a reseller of Livedrive (http://www.livedrive.com). Livedrive provided the technology and service behind the product offered to you by BACKIFY.COM.

We are writing to inform you that BACKIFY.COM is no longer a Livedrive reseller and the services that they purchased from our company on your behalf have been terminated. If you are using a service provided by BACKIFY.COM and powered by Livedrive then this service will now have stopped working.

We would also like to advise you that we have received a number of complaints about BACKIFY.COM from their customers and from industry organizations. We would like to advise you not to provide any credit card information to BACKIFY.COM. If you have provided credit card information to BACKIFY.COM then we would suggest contacting your card provider and informing them that your card may be used fraudulently. If BACKIFY.COM have charged your card for services not provided you should contact your card provider and ask them to initiate a chargeback procedure.

Please note that this advisory is being sent to you in good faith because we feel you should be informed that BACKIFY.COM is no longer a Livedrive reseller and of the complaints we have become aware of. No contract exists between yourself and Livedrive and we are not able to assist further in any dispute you may have with BACKIFY.COM.

If you have installed the online backup software provided by BACKIFY.COM we highly recommend you uninstall it from your computer by following the steps below:

On Windows:
Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel and select Add/Remove Programs (or ‘Programs and settings’), select Livedrive and select uninstall.

On Mac:
Go to Finder > Applications and delete the Livedrive application.

Please note that any data you backed up using BACKIFY.COM cannot be retrieved and we recommend you establish an alternative backup service immediately.

Livedrive does provide a very similar online backup service to the one provided by BACKIFY.COM and you can read more details and, if you wish, signup for a trial on our website at http://www.livedrive.com. Please note however that we do not provide a free service as BACKIFY.COM did.

Other online backup vendors you may wish to consider include:
Carbonite.com
iDrive.com
Mozy.com

We are sorry for the inconvenience this situation may have caused you.

Kind Regards

Livedrive Limited
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Probably a teaser rate to lure you in. Once they have your data and it's renewal time the real rates kick in.

Still, if you prepay for a year ($36) and they don't go bankrupt it's your cheapest option for a year of bulk storage.
 
Their data center looks quite impressive, actually. Looks like it's fairly easy to expand and add more space as required.

floppy_disk_striped_RAID.JPG
 
It's funny because I've always wanted to try that so I googled it and turns out it's been done. I wonder at what point is the speed actually acceptable lol.
 
I still use Amazon s3 and love how competition keeps pushing amazon's prices lower. I think they are $.14/gb now, was .18 when I signed up. (they aren't the cheapest, but knowing a cloud company is going to be there tomorrow is worth a premium.)
 
jjsole said:
I still use Amazon s3 and love how competition keeps pushing amazon's prices lower. I think they are $.14/gb now, was .18 when I signed up. (they aren't the cheapest, but knowing a cloud company is going to be there tomorrow is worth a premium.)
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S3 is cheap as hell, I always wonder why no one uses them, haha.

Does S3 have any software to let you back up/sync between devices?
 
ViviTheMage said:
S3 is cheap as hell, I always wonder why no one uses them, haha.

Does S3 have any software to let you back up/sync between devices?
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No, I don't believe amazon has their own front end software. I use jungledisk for gui/backup/sync. (I bought it when it was a permanent license @$30 iirc, but now it is subscription based.)
 
jjsole said:
No, I don't believe amazon has their own front end software. I use jungledisk for gui/backup/sync. (I bought it when it was a permanent license @$30 iirc, but now it is subscription based.)
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Is there anything that does repo-like diffing a la DropBox? I definitely need an offsite back up for my stuffs.
 
I have 80GB of pictures I do not back up remotely, that I probably should ... I hav elocal back ups, but nothing remote for my pictures...critical stuff is out there though.
 
ViviTheMage said:
I have 80GB of pictures I do not back up remotely, that I probably should ... I hav elocal back ups, but nothing remote for my pictures...critical stuff is out there though.
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I just bought a cheap external drive, copied my photos, and keep it at work. I have close to a TB so it would take a long time to upload everything.
 
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