Looking at online backups for Home
I like Skydrive because it's free. If you are looking for an option for near real-time backup, take a look at Carbonite or Mozy.
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I setup my CEO with Syncplicity for his home PC $15/mo for 50GB and it works with Windows, Mac, ios, Android, Windows phones and is pretty fast from the initial sync I did for him.
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If you have family, look at Crashplan and you can sync/backup between multiple PCs with encryption for free.
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I've been using Carbonite for about 3 years at home and am generally happy. Once set up you can pretty much forget about it. I do have my backups paused during the day as Carbonite seems to cause...
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I use Carbonite (http:/ Opens a new window/www.carbonite.com) on all 3 of my Macs.There is no throttling at all when I do an upload. I have done a complete restore and it worked great.
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I spoke with carbonite today and they told me there was throtling but it was after 200GB.
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I did a restore to a new laptop of his around 20GB and it finished in something in a bit over 2 hours, he has a 20 Meg connection at home. Now whenever he makes changes on either system it...
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Yeah I only have 75 GB on Carbonite... The other 2 TBs of data of mine is personal and it sits on an open source application called FreeNas.
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I have a just under a terabyte in CrashPlan's cloud. It took forever get up there, but things have been great once the initial upload finished. I've done restores and haven't had a problem. I also...
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Note for Crashplan, the data they house for you is not replicated/backed up. So if their machine that houses the data should crash, Raid 6 goes bust, there goes your data archival. This was confirmed...
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I have used Backblaze: http://www.backblaze.com/ Opens a new window - and found it OK from a laptop being carted all around the place. Initial backup took over a week, due to having a larger HDD, and...
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I use Crashplan and backup to their datacenters and have been using it for about 3 years. It has worked well for me. My data is stored on a NAS RAID system and so I wanted a backup solution that...
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i am thinking about carbonite at this point because it is unlimited and will also do external drive.
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Don't want to jump in too much on this since I work for a vendor of home backup software (Code42, makers of CrashPlan), but I did want to clarify one point on this thread. CrashPlan, at least, doesn't...
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I use Syncback to a 2TB WD drive for everything i.e. music etc. and 50GB Skydrive (~€19 /p.a) for the important stuff like pictures, camcorder vids(the stuff that cannot be redownloaded)
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As other people have said, I don't think you can go wrong with Carbonite, I've heard tons of good things about them. I haven't used them myself, I'm currently using JustCloud for my backups. The only...
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I've got to agree with John - you can't go wrong with Carbonite. Of course as a Carbonite green guy I am biased. :) And to expand on John's point, we do not automatically backup video files with...
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Maybe you could’ve guessed, but I use Dropbox! The first 2 GB are free, and works with Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. It even works when offline, so you can access your...
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There was a very good discussion of online backup security in several Security Now podcasts last year. GRC|Security Now! Episode Archivehttps:/ Opens a new window/www.grc.com/securitynow.htm See these...
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