Need Online Backup not Carbonite (Vanity)

April 25, 2012 | Mself

[Doug in CA]

With absolutely no monetary interest, try sugarsync. Cheap, unobtrusive, free trial. My wife’s files were critical to her happiness, and therefor to mine, and now we’re good. You can find reviews online.

[Vendome]

If you have been listening to Rush, Hannity et al, you would have heard of a new sponsor http://mozy.com/

[max americana]

“Even though I really have nothing to hide, I wouldn’t trust any 3rd party to have access to my entire hard drives. The potential for monkey business is just too great, IMO.”

BINGO! “Cloud” is just another fancy name for “another entity which hosts your information”. If I wanted my online stuff accessed from another location in the word, we use remote viewers to access our pc’s anytime, anywhere. Or better yet, bring our compact external hard drives.

[Defiant]

Microsoft’s Sky Drive is free and provides 25 GB.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Get two hard drives with RAID capability and if your motherboard doesn’t support RAID then buy a RAID adapter card. RAID can be made to copy to both hard drives at the same time so that one of them is essentially a backup.

[Rum Tum Tugger]

I’ve been doing online backup for almost 10 years.

I never used Carbonite because it was obvious to me that there were much better online backup services.

I used Mozy until Mozy decided to price itself out of the business several years ago. I then looked at all the alternatives and decided that CrashPlan was the best service and the best deal.

I’ve been using CrashPlan for several years and would highly recommend them.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

You could look into “Cloudberry” for Windows.

http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-s3-microsoft-azure-google-storage-online-backup.aspx

This program will cost you $30, it fits into Amazon’s S3 storage which costs about $.10 a GB.

This will encrypt your data so there is no security risk.

Good luck.

[webboy45]

I used to use Mozy but it wouldn’t let me backup my email. I’ve now switched to Sugarsync.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

“Even though I really have nothing to hide, I wouldn’t trust any 3rd party to have access to my entire hard drives. The potential for monkey business is just too great, IMO.”

BINGO! “Cloud” is just another fancy name for “another entity which hosts your information”. If I wanted my online stuff accessed from another location in the word, we use remote viewers to access our pc’s anytime, anywhere. Or better yet, bring our compact external hard drives.

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One word: Encryption.

Encrypt your backed up data and security concerns are essentially nil.

[rmlew]

I would suggest Mozy, which would be the easiest solution. The most flexible suggested so far is CloudBerry S3 Backup Desktop, but you would also need to set up an Amazon S3 account. I haven't used this product, so I cannot recommend it.

[GlockThe Vote]

Thanks . So far I have looked at mozy and crashplan

Both look ok.