Secure storage like Google?
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Perhaps if your question weren't so vague you'd get some more answers.
How much data is "a load" ?
Does it have to be free or will you consider a subscription?
Do you want a pure backup solution or do you need to access actual working data online?
Are you going to share it?
Is there anything that might contravene some providers' terms of use (eg nudity, copyrighted material)?
Is there any sensitive data that needs to be encrypted?
Any other information which might be relevant?
How much data is "a load" ?
Does it have to be free or will you consider a subscription?
Do you want a pure backup solution or do you need to access actual working data online?
Are you going to share it?
Is there anything that might contravene some providers' terms of use (eg nudity, copyrighted material)?
Is there any sensitive data that needs to be encrypted?
Any other information which might be relevant?
Sorry what I meant is rather than relying on sky drive or iCloud and so on how could I secure my own data just for my own purposes as I'd rather have total control over my stuff incase skydive or iCloud ever shut or got hacked. I was asking how to do it and be safe from data loss in the event of my drives failing.
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Some sort of cloud storage service with the files in small(1gb or so, depending on size) truecrypt containers?
Or passworded zip/rar archives?
Edit
r do you mean storing them on your own pc/server.
If so a couple of drives in raid1 to secure against a drive failure?
Or passworded zip/rar archives?
Edit
r do you mean storing them on your own pc/server. If so a couple of drives in raid1 to secure against a drive failure?
Sure. Then if one hard drive dies, your data should be safe.
If one hard drive goes faulty and starts corrupting data, there's a reasonable chance it'll corrupt the data on the other. If the mb controller or psu go wonky, both will die. If you drop the box, both die. And so on.
Raid is for high availability servers. If you don't care about five minutes downtime, or even an hour's downtime, you want one hard drive and a second as a backup, in a draw. Possibly a third in a draw at work. Not raid.
If one hard drive goes faulty and starts corrupting data, there's a reasonable chance it'll corrupt the data on the other. If the mb controller or psu go wonky, both will die. If you drop the box, both die. And so on.
Raid is for high availability servers. If you don't care about five minutes downtime, or even an hour's downtime, you want one hard drive and a second as a backup, in a draw. Possibly a third in a draw at work. Not raid.
