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When is the last time you backed up your important data? I’m talking about things that cannot be reinstalled. I know people who have never done it at all, because they simply don’t know how or where to do so! I’m about to tell you about a way you can do offsite backups easily. These guys wanted me to do a video about their services, but I wasn’t too keen on the idea. Until, that is, they offered up discounts for our community!

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When was the last time you backed up your computer? If the answer is “never” or “I don’t know what to use,” then you might try either Backblaze or SpiderOak. Online backup services trump traditional backup methods – so long as you have a broadband connection.

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From: Lars Noldan
Date: September 10, 2008 1:50:07 PM PDT
To: Chris Pirillo
Subject: Online Backup Options

http://chris.pirillo.com/2006/06/01/internet-hard-drive/

Was written June 1st 2006

Over two years have passed, Have you re-evaluated Carbonite.com since then? I’m thinking about signing up for their online backup service but would really love to hear a fresh opinion of it from you.

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Here’s a question that I’m not sure anybody’s answering effectively:

I was watching the video where you were talking about service packs, and you brought up Time Machine coming in Leopard. the question I have about that is how will al that information be stored? That’s a lot of information if you can go back weeks. If you had, say, 60 gigs used on a 80GB drive, You might quickly blow through that remaining 20 gigs in a really short time. If you have a 2GB video that you changed 5 times in iMovie, might that take up 10 gigs of space?

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Lockergnome subscriber Troy Lokitz may have missed our online data backup segment, but his situation may be a bit out of the ordinary:

I currently use the HP MediaVault with mirrored 300gig hard drives to store my data (aside from DVD backups, the mirrored hard drives contain my working copies of my data). I’ve been investigating online backup services like allmydata / mozy / xdrive / carbonite and have had mixed experiences with them. I did some internet searches to see if there is a recent (within the last 6 months) review of online services. The reason I would want a recent one is they are all changing services / support options very quickly and reviews I’ve found are out of date and discuss issues with services that may no longer exist.

I’m looking for a service that will backup up to 50gigs of data on a scheduled / incremental basis from a NAS (mounted network drive). Also, i like the idea of having web-based access to the files/data. So far, I’ve found the following:

Xdrive: my favorite from a price/features perspective, but in the week I’ve been playing, there service has been HORRIBLE. I liked their product enough that I was going to buy it and found that every time I went to try and purchase an upgraded account, the website would tell me the account upgrade options are not accessible due to maintenance. I finally found a number to call on AOL (they bought xdrive) and the customer support desk told me that they are sorry but they are currently doing an upgrade and they have no idea how long it will take before I can purchase the service. Warning bells??

Carbonite: looks good, but doesn’t support mapped drive backups. restoring files can only be done by selecting files, not whole directories, which is a big downer.

Allmydata: looks good. I’m going to play with the trial, but not sure about the stability/strength of the company. I need to know the company won’t go out of business tomorrow. Nothing against allmydata, but I just don’t know much about them.

Mozy: doesn’t support mapped drives.

I know there are more companies out there and was hoping to get your feedback.

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