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which Online Backup Service?

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WildViper

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Sup All,

I have reasearched this a bit and found that most articles are from 2006 or so. I was wondering which online backup service ranks the best?

THese are somethings that are important:

1. less chance that a company will go bust.
2. Easy to use. Transfering, Retrieving.
3. Data spread across several data centers.

Cost is not so much of a factor as most of the pricing is coming down anyways. I think most will be under $20 per month for 50 Gigs of data.

I like Jungledisk, but am not sure if they are just a "software" service or what.

I am leaning towards S3....but what is your guys take.
 
Just for personal use.

Mainly for media files..pictures, mp3s, videos and so on.

Also, Reliability would be an important consideration as well.

Thanx
 
Mozy - $4.95 a month for unlimited data. Restoring is easy as right clicking a folder and select restore! Works well and if you have bulk loss and need it back ASAP you can pay for them to overnight you DVD's. I've never had to do this but hear it's good.
 
Mozy sounds good, but...are they big enough to weather the storms, per se?

My main concern is that I do not want to back up everything to one place and then they go out of business in a year or two.

Then I would have to repeat the whole process again. I rather just give it to one and know that they will be here tomorrow morning when I wake up. 🙂

That is why I am leaning towards S3...but just curious what others think.

Thank you.
 
I think that Online backup is a good idea, but I'd also recommend some local image backups of the entire PC. Having to restore a whole PC from scratch is very time consuming. Also, it's hard for most folks to know where ALL their data files are and it's not uncommon to find that their emails or other valuable files haven't been included in their partial backups.
 
Originally posted by: RebateMonger
I think that Online backup is a good idea, but I'd also recommend some local image backups of the entire PC. Having to restore a whole PC from scratch is very time consuming. Also, it's hard for most folks to know where ALL their data files are and it's not uncommon to find that their emails or other valuable files haven't been included in their partial backups.
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Image solutions are ideal for whole system backups. I've found that online backups are great for things like family pictures and other things you'd rather not lose.
 
I do have full image backups. In fact I have 3 backups plus the original data.

2 Backups on internal drives (2 different drives..different manufacturers)
1 backup on External drive
1 original on a separate drive from the other 2 internal drives.

In addition, I backup some pictures by uploading to smugmug and DVDs.

Everything is synchronized monthly currently since I am not adding that much data currently.

I have a pretty elaborate backup system as you can tell. I have been burnt before and planned on never again.

Since we all take pictures in digital now and rarely print, I feel this is important to me for future.

I have always wanted online storage, but never had time to research. Rather than keeping an off-site harddrive, this is a better option for me. Especially with the fires we had, keeping things in a Safety Deposit box is NOT a viable option. Even though they are fire-proof...they are not "Heat-proof". That is my concern.

 
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