Online backup and storage

Raumarik

Raumarik

Raumarik

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What solution are people using? I've got about 200Gb of data that I'd like backed up somewhere as it's pretty damn important to me. I do backup to an external drive obviously but if the house burnt down that's not really going to help much.

Experiences would be handy, tempted by Skydrive at the moment.
 
If it's purely for backup, rather than online storage (which you can access directly), Crashplan Plus is pretty good - $5/month for unlimited amounts of data (reducing to $3/month depending on the length of time you sign up for), unlimited file sizes, client-side encryption and continuous backup in realtime. A mate of mine uses it for his business, and he says it pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Skydrive is free of course, but you're limited to 7GB per account these days... I don't think you'll find anywhere you can backup 200GB for nothing.
 
I'm expecting to pay, but do want direct access which is why I have a feeling Skydrive/googledrive etc will all be pretty much the same.
 
Halfmad said:
I'm expecting to pay, but do want direct access which is why I have a feeling Skydrive/googledrive etc will all be pretty much the same.
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Oh, right, sure... Crashplan won't be much use to you then.

As far as I can tell, Skydrive only lets you add a maximum of 100GB to your initial free storage, so I doubt if that would be a realistic option either, unless you had multiple accounts (messy).

I guess it's just a case of looking around and comparing prices/features... I've used Dropbox, SugarSync, Spideroak and Wuala, and they all work pretty well, but I've only ever messed around with the free plans, and not with anything like the amount of data you're considering.

I don't know if security is an issue for you, but AFAIK only Spideroak and Wuala out of the online syncing (as opposed to backup) utilities have client-side encryption - on the privacy note, Dropbox have just confirmed that they were recently hacked yet again, although they insist no-one's data was compromised.
 
I'm using skydive, far cheaper than Dropbox and big update coming soon, which should solve my one gripe. Of a max upload size. Hopfully see some bigger tiers as well. Max at moment is 100GB but not sure if you can buy multiples.
 
CaptainCrash said:
If it's purely for backup, rather than online storage (which you can access directly), Crashplan Plus is pretty good - $5/month for unlimited amounts of data (reducing to $3/month depending on the length of time you sign up for), unlimited file sizes, client-side encryption and continuous backup in realtime. A mate of mine uses it for his business, and he says it pretty much does what it says on the tin.

Skydrive is free of course, but you're limited to 7GB per account these days... I don't think you'll find anywhere you can backup 200GB for nothing.
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Had a good look at crashplan, for what I want it's probably good enough. Most of the info I upload I dont' access regularly but I do want to know it's safe! So for that it's certainly the best, apart from anything else I'm already over 200Gb apparently so it'll work out far cheaper :D
 
crashplan looks good i am thinking of getting it aswell as have over 500gb to save. my friend uses livedrive and says its good!!
 
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