Online backups?

[Ns1]

Looking for a decent one at a decent price (ie looking for good value, not cheapest option)


Not even sure what features I need. Anyone use one they'd recommend?

 

[corkyg]

I would not use any of them. As volatile as this type of market is, businesses come and go rather quickly. After you are all backed up to an off site server, what happens if that company goes belly up? I prefer to control my own backups via external drives.

Anyway, a current top rated one is MozyPro for whatever that's worth.

 

[sourceninja]

Mozy is owned by EMC, so I wouldn't worry too much about them disappearing.

Personally, I like crashplan. They are priced well, plus you can do peer to peer backups.

I backup to a friends house (encrypted of course) and he backs up to mine. This way we pay no fee's to crashplan. I am going to get crashplan service though so that I can backup to them for an extra layer of support.

So I have time machine, crashplan to friend's house, and crashplan to the crashplan service.

 

[Dark Penguin]

I like Mozy Home. The 2GB version is free so give it a try.

 

[RebateMonger]

I've used Mozy, Mozy Pro, and Carbonite. For home use, I prefer Carbonite because it's easier to see what's being backed up and because you can control both the start and end times for online backups.

I don't use online backups for primary backups. I prefer system images of each PC, backed up to local hard disks. I use online backup for secondary backups of data that I can't afford to lose under ANY cirumstances.

 

[Miramonti]

I use Jungledisk software with Amazon S3 online storage. Iirc, its about $.18/gb. Jungledisk is excellent software and Amazon is going to be around for a very long time and not suddenly fold up overnight. S3 is also very reliable in terms of uptime. I also pay jungledisk an extra $1 a month to be able to access files over the internet.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I like Syncplicity

 

[Ns1]

Thanks for all the replies guys.

I'm already backing up data onto external drives, just looking for an additional layer.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Get a dedicated server at a place like theplanet and just do the backups that way. I use rsync over key pair ssh to do mine automaticly every week.

 

[Scouzer]

I don't know how you guys can use online backups anyway. Personally my monthly upload quota is 4GB which isn't much backups.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: Scouzer
I don't know how you guys can use online backups anyway. Personally my monthly upload quota is 4GB which isn't much backups.

I would hit that quota in a day or two at most.

 

[Dark Penguin]

I don't back everything up to Mozy Home. Just the stuff I really do not want to lose. Stuff like my music is backed up locally. If I lose the originals and the backups I can always re rip from the CDs. Any music I've purchased from Amazon is backed up to Mozy Home. So I have about 160GB's uploaded. It took a while.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I think Backblaze is pretty cool. they charge 5$/month but have an unlimited quota! it's worth looking into. I believe it even backs up external drives you have connected and are on.

 

[Gooberlx2]

I only backup some documents and scans folders right now, so I don't use a lot of space.

As a result, I just use a combination of Windows Live Skydrive, Gladinet Free (to mount it) and a task-scheduled robocopy.

There's enough space left (they give you 25GB) I could probably backup all of my pictures as well.

edit: Actually, for some reason, the performance of Gladinet is very slow and robocopy didn't want to schedule in Win7. So I started trying out the Mozy Home's free 2GB last night. Super easy, seemed to work well.

 

[Madhattan]

I use Dropbox and mozy.

Both are really good imo, but I like the extra features found in Dropbox. It lets me sync all my important stuff with all my computers, which is amazing!

 

[Zensal]

Originally posted by: jjsole
I use Jungledisk software with Amazon S3 online storage. Iirc, its about $.18/gb. Jungledisk is excellent software and Amazon is going to be around for a very long time and not suddenly fold up overnight. S3 is also very reliable in terms of uptime. I also pay jungledisk an extra $1 a month to be able to access files over the internet.

Ditto. Jungledisk encrypts the data when you send it, so Amazon S3 only sees garbage. You have full control over your data and Amazon can't see anything.

 

[boran]

Another vote for Jungledisk and S3.

 

[LR6]

My vote is for Jungledisk and S3. It works great for me.