Online data backup and storage?

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berzin

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I ran into an advertisement for mozy.com and was wondering if anyone out there uses it.

I am looking for a place to store my data until I can get an actual external hard drive to back up my stuff.

If not mozy, is there another site out there that anyone could recommend?

Thanks in advance.
 
berzin said:
I ran into an advertisement for mozy.com and was wondering if anyone out there uses it.

I am looking for a place to store my data until I can get an actual external hard drive to back up my stuff.

If not mozy, is there another site out there that anyone could recommend?

Thanks in advance.
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I'm using Mozy and so far it's been good. I've got about 3tb of data backed up with them. I've also used Carbonite, but between the two I prefer Mozy. Carbonite doesn't automatically backup media files so you have to manually tell it to backup each file. Also their backups were severely throttled after about 300gb.
 
If you have the upload speed to get everything you want backed up uploaded in a reasonable timeframe then go for it. It would take me about 2 years to upload 3tb of data if I maxed out my connection with upload only.
 
hmm..

so Mozy allows large amounts? Like my data drive.. has about 300gb total. 70GB mp3's, etc. Something like Mozy can accomodate that much?

how about complete OS backups?
 
Also look into crashplan. I have moved to using there service and it works really well for my needs. I backup to a server I own and to there cloud storage. I also purchased the Family plan and my parents and sister backup under my account also. Works really well and I know have a backup of every computer my family owns, just in case something were to go wrong.
 
I've been using Carbonite for a while. I only have critical stuff on it though, my design work and photos (less than 100 Gb). It works well if you manually set it up and you can get a great deal on a multi-year plan from time to time.

The client is also fairly light weight which is nice.
 
What's the price on those? Dropbox has a paid-service for 50/100GB capacities as well doesn't it? I guess it's probably considered a step down from those other services mentioned but if you're only backing up your most critical work it could actually be a more seamless solution (you can make folders public, access it thru the site, on OS X/Linux, etc.).
 
I tried most of the big names in online backup and liked idrive the best.

Seem to have the nicest functionality and policies.

www.idrive.com
 
berzin said:
I ran into an advertisement for mozy.com and was wondering if anyone out there uses it.

I am looking for a place to store my data until I can get an actual external hard drive to back up my stuff.

If not mozy, is there another site out there that anyone could recommend?

Thanks in advance.
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berzin,

You might want to check this out for its cost effectiveness...hope suits your needs...

http://www.storegrid.com/
 
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*Disclaimer I work for NovaStor overseeing QA and Support.

I would personally like to suggest NovaBACKUP:
http://www.novastor.com/novabackup11/index.php

This software allows you to backup to CD/DVD/BD, usb hdd, local hdd, NAS for your local backups. FTP, Amazon S3, and we have a host (~20 active right now) of offsite storage providers that are also available in the software. One of them offers either 100GB or 50GB for $50 a year I cant remember off the top of my head. The software also does imaging (think ghost or acronis) to local devices. It has a fully functional 15 day trial, but you can extend it to 30 days I believe in the software.

There are literally tens of thousands of online backup/storage places out there. I know this because the company I work for 'Storage Server' software runs tens of thousands of them.. :)
 
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