Miles

Can anyone recommend an online backup service for my personal stuff (like photos and the wife's files) at home? No more than 5Gb at the moment. I'd quite like some sort of agent which would run every week and do an automated incremental or something. Don't mind paying - have heard too many stories about people loosing stuff!

Did have a Google but there appears to be many outfits offering this sort of service.

stevem2k

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Miles

Great minds eh? - just trialling that at the moment

RichB

Interested in reading your findings on this chaps.
Anyone using it to backup a webserver - I am considering it for wwwroot and log files only. Does it compress do we know?
I'm thinking of using something like retrospect to process the log files into a catalog and then every night get the catalog files pushed across to DDB. It implies it only copies across 'new data' and uses a mail file as its example. If that is true it does sound promising.

Rich

stiscooby

Why not just use an external Hard Disk and plug it in once a week to do an automated backup?

I do a similar thing and use a piece of software called ViseVersa Pro 2. It is basically file synchronization software.... you can setup an automated job to do basically whatever you like e.g. replicate all from source to destination, replicate only update/newer files etc etc.

You can download a trial from here ViceVersa Software: File Synchronization, File Replication, Windows Backup Software if it's something you would want to use I know of a place where you can find a code to **cough cough, unlock the 30 trial, cough cough**

Iain Young

An external hard disk isn't as good a a proper off-site backup though. What happens if your external disk goes belly up? At least with online backup site they backup their backups.

It all depends on how secure you want to be, and how much you want to spend

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personal bookmarking?

Miles

Iain, exactly! I wanted some software that would automatically backup my data to a location offsite with the minimum of fuss and hassle - the actual cost isn't terribly important. With my new contract I'll be away from home during the week, perhaps even for weeks on end, and I want the backup process to work with the minimum of involvement for my wife.

For cost, two decent USB external drives would cost about Ł100, with the crowd I'm trialling they will be charging about Ł4/Ł5 per month. Online wins

Miles

Wassat?

stevem2k

the one I suggested is compressed & 448bit encrypted , not even the admin staff can see the data , even with root passwords . It's in 3 physical diverse locations ( not adjacent racks ) and the data is still valid if 2 of them are wiped off the face of the earth...before anyone even thinks about backups ... only deltas are transferred after the initial backup. The backup client is a java applet that does the encryption before transfer so nothing is sent in the clear.

How secure do you want your data

ChrisB

I've been meaning to try Jungle Disk which provides an interface for Wintel, Mac or Linux to Amazon's S3 service.

stiscooby

Keep your data on your current hard disk (inside your PC) as it probably is at the moment then connect the external hard disk to your PC as and when you configure the backup to run.

Chances of both your internal & external hard disks packing up are rather slim id say.

Or burn it to a DVD.

Miles

Stiscooby, if my house burns down, I'll be left with the charred wreckage of my external drive and PC; hence the reason behind off site storage. Agent based as it minimises the hassle for my non-techy wife when I'm away.

SteveM2K, your solution a bit pricey for my needs and if anyone has the time to go through my holiday snaps and some project work for ten year-olds, good luck to them . Being serious, if I was storing financial data or similar I'd use it.

cottonfoo

USB disks used for backup are about as useful as a chocolate teapot unfortunately. It's amazing (and I know some) the number of people that assume a USB disk is more "hardy" than an internal hard drive.

The only way to reliably back up data is using offsite storage in multiple locations, as these places seem to offer, at not bad prices either really. I'd definitely want it encrypted though - not because I wouldn't trust the service provider to look, but in case their systems were compromised.

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xdrive (xdrive.com)

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sorry Miles, personal bookmarking is a site that you can store anything, almost files, websites links etc so you can locate them when your away from your own computer

MrShades

Some of the above look good, but I'm using Mozy - which is superb...

https://mozy.com/?code=C8C49B

The best part is the cost:

2GB is FREE (and if you use my referal link above, we both get another 256MB)

and, if you want more, then UNLIMITED is $4.95 per month.

On top of that, the backup application that runs on your machine sorts everything into backup sets intelligently, backs it all up over an encrypted link nk (their key, or yours), you can bandwidth throttle, it even backs up Outlook stuff.

Check it out, it's great!

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