A website to backup data to, that I don't need to install anything to use?

JonJ678 · 17 Nov 2010 at 00:18

I'm looking for a way to backup well under a gb of coursework, as carrying usb sticks around is proving unreliable. The closest I've come so far is dropbox, but making it work without installing anything doesn't seem to be possible. So I'm currently emailing everything to myself, which is a touch crude.

All I'm after is a website I can rsync data to and from. Preferably one which doesn't publish my coursework to the entirety of the internet. This is proving difficult to find, any ideas?

CaptainCrash · 17 Nov 2010 at 01:24

I seem to recall Amazon S3 supports rsync, should only cost a few pence per month for less than 1GB.

edit: this any good?

lokkers · 17 Nov 2010 at 06:48

JonJ678 said:
making it work without installing anything doesn't seem to be possible.

You just go to the dropbox website and upload/download the files? It doesn't need anything installed :confused:

I'd install the client on your machines (for convenience), and just use the website for machines you don't want to install the client on.

If you decide to give it a go let me know and I'll give you a referral link - it'll give us both some extra space for free

mdb08 · 19 Nov 2010 at 12:08

You could use, docs.google.com which provides up to a gigabyte of free storage in formats not supported by google, however if it is a format that google does not support that counts towards your gigabyte allowance. Alternatively, you could use the recently launched service by Microsoft of Skydrive that would allow you to do the same as on google docs. However, you would only be able to store up to 25GB of any format on this service. Personally, I use google docs on a day-to-day basis, and Microsoft SkyDrive to back up my course work to. As I find their interface to be much much slower than googles.
Hope this helps

JonJ678 · 20 Nov 2010 at 02:17

Cheers guys, I'll have a play.

3dcandy · 20 Nov 2010 at 10:55

mdb08 said:
You could use, docs.google.com which provides up to a gigabyte of free storage in formats not supported by google, however if it is a format that google does not support that counts towards your gigabyte allowance. Alternatively, you could use the recently launched service by Microsoft of Skydrive that would allow you to do the same as on google docs. However, you would only be able to store up to 25GB of any format on this service. Personally, I use google docs on a day-to-day basis, and Microsoft SkyDrive to back up my course work to. As I find their interface to be much much slower than googles.
Hope this helps

Used both, and although they work they are both quite slow. That's the price of paying nowt! Also seen stuff that uses gmail as a virtual drive!

manic111 · 20 Nov 2010 at 13:21

You can use Dropbox without installing anything, just do it all through the Dropbox website

JonJ678 · 23 Nov 2010 at 05:44

After spending a fairly long time trying to get skydrive to play nicely with debian ( a fair amount of the coursework is written on ms office, so this would be convenient ) I've decided life is too short and installed dropbox. There's now a folder called Dropbox which apparently I can't rename, but anything I move into it duly turns up online. That'll do for now.

Thanks for all the advice