Best Online Backup

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It seems Mozy are ditching they're unlimited plan so this means I need to find a new online backup provider.

I have about 126gb that I need to backup. Can anyone recomend anything, currently looking at carbonite and livedrive.com

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Are these backup online sites really reliable? I'm tempted to try this since it's only $5 a month but I have 600GB+ of files so that would take forever to upload!
 
Are these backup online sites really reliable? I'm tempted to try this since it's only $5 a month but I have 600GB+ of files so that would take forever to upload!

Yes, they are but it's always best to have a local backup, just in case.

Crashplan is my favourite at the moment. I tried Backblaze and found it to be a little basic.
 
What are their transfer speeds like?

I never really looked into online backups as, up until recently, my upload was woeful. Would have been faster to post a HDD to a data centre! :p

If I can happily rape my 8-9mbit upload this will become a great extra layer for me. I do already have my own hosting, but there is a clause about not using it for personal backups. This hasn't necessarily stopped me - as I still host a couple of websites - but a dedicated service would be preferable.
 
Nothing wrong with my current software [I do full disk imaging using Macrium Reflect] and it doesn't look like I can use the Handy Backup online service without using their software.

Still, thanks for the suggestion. :)
 
Mini Review!

LiveDrive

Pro: Simple set up. Nice GUI and website
Cons: Stupidly, absurdly slow upload

If you have all year or not much to back up, then this will probably be quite good. If you have anything remotely sizeable, don't bother. The best upload speed I got was 600KB/s average was around 200KB/s. Hardly making use of my 7-8Mb upload.

Crashplan
Pro: Lots of backup options and locations
Con: Slow upload speed.

This has better upload speed than LiveDrive, but it struggled to get up to any kind of decent speed. For a while it was at 1mb, which is pretty damn good, but would regularly drop to useless speeds. It was quoting well over a week for "just" 50GB.

BackBlaze
Pro: None
Cons: Awful GUI, awful website, awful installer

Wow what a piece of crap. First it was the only one that wouldn't install on my server OS, so had to install it on my desktop. The installer is buggier than the underside of a rotting log and the program crashed twice before I could get anywhere near the settings.

You also HAVE to backup your C:\ drive, regardless of what you may actually want to backup. I never tested the upload speed because I couldn't even get it to back up what I wanted it to backup.

Carbonite
Pro: No idea
Con: GUI, speed

Awful, awful, awful GUI. A third-degree burn would look better. Upload speed is woeful. Took it 30 minutes to upload a 50MB file.

Conclusion
If I had to pick one, I would go for Crashplan, since it seemed the most consistent with upload rate, and also had the highest speed. GUI is nice and easy to set up. The rest I would toss out the nearest 10 storey window.
 
LiveDrive, Crashplan and Carbonite all encrypt your backups iirc. Though it will do no harm to encrypt it yourself first! :)

Yer I always think it's best to do the whole cloud security thing yourself were possible. Not sure if the services you mentioned ask for a user password? Or do they just encrypt it and handily keep the key for you :p + there could be backdoors/weaknesses in their systems to.

paranoia++ :D
 
Carbonite lets you create and manage your own key. The others had no obvious options, but speed was my main focus.

After a few hours of testing my recommendation is to either buy your own hosting or convince a mate to let you use their machine as one of Crashplan's backup locations.
 
i'm not bothered about off-site backups but if i was, i'd use an external drive and put it somewhere safe. sod faffing around with home broadband upload speeds for this type of malarkey. :p
 
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I use Acronis True Image for my local backups. They have an online backup system available now. The local system is good so I would hope the online is as well.
 
i'm not bothered about off-site backups but if i was, i'd use an external drive and put it somewhere safe. sod faffing around with home broadband upload speeds for this type of malarkey. :p

I already go to my brother's house as often as possible to deposit my latest backups. I was hoping to simply add an extra layer to my backup's safety. I still have my own hosting to upload to which is faster than any of the dedicated solutions I tried. It is just technically I am not supposed to use my hosting for backups! :p

I have anywhere up to 10MB upload, so it would have been pretty nifty if I could get a constant upload rate. None of the above could manage that.

I use Acronis True Image for my local backups. They have an online backup system available now. The local system is good so I would hope the online is as well.

Crashplan and the others may be perfectly good services. But they are epically slow. Meaning aside from people with massive patience or very files, it is a bit useless.
 
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