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By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:50:57 +0000

Your article is right on! Good job. I agree with alot of your points. I do think you missed a good service that I personally use though. I’ve tried all of the above but backazon.com for online backup has done wonders for me. Check it out!

Eric

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By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:41:17 +0000

@James – Welcome, and thanks for your comment. Most of the services I mentioned provide encryption capabilities as well.

@Jason – Thanks for adding your perspective Jason and the link. I agree, there are tons of great services out there and there are new ones everyday. I’m currently evaluating Mozy and SOS, but will check out AngelBackup as well.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:20:54 +0000

PC Magazine may like Mozy – but not everyone is convinced. Look at http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9752330-33.html for a very informative article on Mozy with regards to defensive computing.

There are plenty of other good services out there. The one I personally use is Angel Backup (http://www.AngelBackup.com). It archives your files forever and keeps multiple versions of each file for those ‘Save’ when you meant ‘Save As’ moments :-)

By: James

James — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:14:00 +0000

I agree with the local, centralized option.

It’s a lot quicker for uploading (at least from the perspective of your laptop).

It’s a lot quicker for recovery. You can restore in minutes rather than hours.

You can encrypt before uploading.

You can even set up with some sort of 1 month / 2 month / 3 month backups to handle deletions, corruptions, etc. The remote server would have the most recent and you could have several months of backups locally.

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By: glblguy

glblguy — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:50:48 +0000

Centralizing the data to one machine, then backing up to an online service sounds like a good plan. WE have 3 computers to back-up. Keep us posted on your learnings. I don’t have near as much data, but enough. Thanks!

By: justin

justin — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:39:39 +0000

I am struggling with this as well.

I have a lot more data than the average user, photos, video, audio, decades worth of email. Code, documents (not much space with those).

I need to backup my data as well as my wife’s. I used Carbonite for a while, but it was lacking in many ways. It would throttle the upload bandwidth when one PC was idle being backed up, as it assumed a single computer household with no options to set the upstream cap.

I am looking at a centralised server that the desktops/notebooks are backed up to, and then having that data sent to an online backup service. S3 seems to be a contender.