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http://live.pirillo.com/ - What is a good off-site storage solution for backing up my files?
Getting your data backed up and off site - either by storing a bunch of DVDs in a security deposit box or by using an online storage service - is very important in today’s digital world. The last thing you want to have happen is to lost all of your important personal information.
Backup solutions have been pretty expensive in the past: they required special SCSI tape drives and dozens or hundreds of tapes to store your data. Thankfully there are more and more services and software that will let you back up over the Internet.
JungleDisk backs up to Amazon’s S3 service:
- Store an unlimited amount of data for only 15 cents per gigabyte
- No monthly subscription fee, no startup fee, no commitment
- Your data is fully encrypted at all times
- Data is stored at multiple Amazon.com datacenters around the country for high availability
- Access files directly from Windows Explorer, Mac OSX Finder, and Linux
- Automatically back up your important files quickly and easily
MediaMax offers 25GB free storage:
MediaMax, powered by Streamload, gives you a private and secure place to upload, store, access, and share your personal videos, photos, movies, music, and files.
Mozy came highly recommended for its unlimited storage service:
- 2GB of free, secure storage (Or go Unlimited for $4.95/month!)
- Open/locked file support
- Block-level differential backup
- 128-bit SSL support (to secure your data during transport)
- 448-bit Blowfish encryption (to secure your data on our server)
- Continuous or scheduled backup options
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Backup in the cloud » Moving Walkway
June 5th, 2007
at 11:06am
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Piffles
June 5th, 2007
at 12:49pm
Hi folks,
Personally, concerning backups, I think there’s no substitute for manually copying your files over to external media such as nother hard disk stored in a safe place or CDs/DVDs.
I’m not too fond of using backup managment programmes, because, in the end, it always means you, to a certain extent, lose control over how your data is saved. And that may bring some nasty surprises along when you actually come to need the backups (Ooops, I can’t make the decompression programme work; for instance).
Manually copying things over, with your own folder structure etc. forces you to maintain a certain order in your documents. In the long run, that order will make your life easier and you’ll be sure, when you need your backups, that they contain exactly what you intended them to contain.
So, my method is just a bunch of CDs, DVDs classified by type of data. The nice things about DVD-Rs is that you get a hell of a lot of data on them, so you won’t actually need all that many of them to backup all your stuff, not like in the CD-R days.
Just my view on the matter…
Cya,
Piffles.
Caffeined
June 13th, 2007
at 11:56pm
I do back ups to an external HDD and online. I like the idea of an offsite backup that I can access from anywhere with an internet connection. I use the free Mozy which is easy enough. I’m not crazy about having to install their upload app. Anyone have experiences/opinions with the other online services?