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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.

By: Spencer

Spencer — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:16:38 +0000

Chris - Mozy is definitely the best of the bunch. I tried X-Drive earlier in the year and couldn’t ever get it to work. Carbonite is a pile of dung and support is non-existent. Been using Mozy since April and have absolutely loved it. The professional version (MozyPro.com) has the mapped drive support you are looking for.

Good luck!
Spence

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:21:07 +0000

I regularly use Mozy and have no trouble using it with mapped drives. In fact its a good way around having to pay for additional PC accounts.

By: ilya

ilya — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:02:08 +0000

I’m not sure about backing up data to the internet. I’m security anal, I would never do it.

If you want to host the backups your self, look into buffalo NAS (www.buffalotech.com/home). You can get multiple NAS devices that can backup from one nas to the other on a schedule. The buffalo terrastation can go up to 3 TB. On top of that, if you are geeky you can hack the firmware (linux) and replace it with a fully blown debian kernel (www.linkstationwiki.net/). That will give you much more flexibility (ssh access, ftp, www), even adding encryption to it.

The newer buffalo products has an added free service that allows you to access the files in your NAS from the internet (where ever you are).

I have two NAS from buffalo, really happy with it.

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