Comments on: Online Backup Service Options

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:31:00 +0000

Currently using IDrive online backup, but I just found out that all my
ISOs are not supported. No fault of the iDrive system, but only for your
information. I’m trying Carbonite now. They allow you to back up the
ISO.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:51:00 +0000

Wow….Its informative article.I enjoyed to read it . I just switched to Mozy for my need online backup. And I must say is a great service for personal use or people looking for online backup at low cost. It is very easy to use with features such as automatic incremental backup and scheduled.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 13:32:00 +0000

Great post to here.Indeed all online backup services have both Mozy and Mozy pro. But the side of the face remains that actually helps a lot especially when it comes to data security.

By: Winydrexy

Winydrexy — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:19:47 +0000

I think that everyone has an online backup which works best for him or her.I have tried very many online backups but i was never satisfied with the services offered.It was untill i switched to an online backup solution called Safecopy backup.Safecopy backup offers very fabulous services because i can now backup multiple computers on a single account and with that i only pay $50 a year for 200GB space with a free unlimited 3GB trial version.This is so great.

By: JohnnyBoyClub

JohnnyBoyClub — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:05:22 +0000

Over the internet there are a lot of online backup services from where to choose but you must be carefull witch one you choose because your safety and security of your files depends of that.
I am using [redacted] and i didn’t had any problem with my files or the software , and i allways recovered my files without any problems. Their software is free and also they are offering good online backup service free up to 3gb for free members ( they have larger packs at good prices comparing with others )

By: daav

daav — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:39:41 +0000

I used Mozy to test first, signed up for free 2GB space, uploaded 800MB from my client installed on my PC and tried to web-restore at a different PC, it was simply a NIGHT-MARE – Stay away from Mozy folks.

Worth nothing more than dung. Signup with monthly fees??? hell no.

By: gyan

gyan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:54:30 +0000

I’m in the same situation… this may be the ticket…
http://www.memeo.com/autobackupstd.php

By: Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:15:57 +0000

Oh and I forgot, the company is Seattle based.

By: Bill Fulton

Bill Fulton — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:14:59 +0000

You really should check out Data Lodge Pro. It supports mapped drives, Exchange Server, SQL Server, Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. Also, there is a free 30 day trial (no credit card required). You can backup up to 100 GB of space free for 30 days.

By: Troy Lokitz

Troy Lokitz — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 17:38:45 +0000

Thanks for your comments! So far, Idrive seems like the best candidate. Mozy Pro is probably my REAL best option, but it’s more money than I wanted to spend.

Anyone else have any options I missed?

Thanks,
Troy

By: Chuck

Chuck — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 13:37:28 +0000

Chris-

We just released a network-drive ready version of Mozy Pro. (Not Mozy, Mozy Pro.) You can check it out at http://mozypro.com/

It’s a little more expensive than Mozy, but it will do exactly what you need it to with your NAS device.

Chuck
Lead Support Engineer
Mozy.com

By: Rob V

Rob V — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:43:27 +0000

I really like Mozy, but I have a major concern about its claimed security. If you choose you own private key, and then restore files via a web download of a zip file, they come back to you encrypted. You then need a mozy-decrypt program (and your private key) to decrypt them. Now encrypted data should appear essentially random, and un-compressible, but if you look at restored versions of files with a lot of repeated characters in them (like, say, any Word doc, since they are full of binary padding…) you find loads of repeated chars in the encrypted output, which compresses quite a bit.

This I suspect would then be vulnerable to an attack to find your private key, and then an attacker could decrypt all you stuff…

I am not a cryptographer, but this does look really dodgy.

By: Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 20:32:20 +0000

It’s still in beta, but people should seriously try
S3 Backup.

http://www.maluke.com/s3man/

It uses Amazon’s S3 storage space and is an order of magnitude less expensive as a result.

By: Joe Messman

Joe Messman — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 16:00:25 +0000

idrive is the best online backup that I have used for my clients. It also offers mapped drive support and the interface is as granular or simple as you want. Go to idrive.com and check it out.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:24:14 +0000

Carbonite does in fact allow you to restore entire directories and even entire drives if you had them selected to be backed up. It also allows you to restore folder/files to any location you want, not just where they were originally. I just had an OS meltdown and Carbonite worked very well getting my files back. I have more than 40 gigs backed up on Carbonite – definitely worth the $50 a year to me.