Members Thunderbroom Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 Do any of you use one? I've heard commercials on the radio from time-to-time but never gave it much thought...until today. My external hard drive that is supposed to be backing up my internal drive in real time seems to have stopped doing so more than a month ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I use IDrive for all of my documents and anything small. 12gigs for free (had to send referral spam to some friends who agreed to it:). I am not sure I would consider a pay service - they are all pretty expensive. I'd use some FTP space somewhere and some open source stuff if I didn't have more than I need at Idrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 Wow, I looked into it and IDrive seems to have lowered their prices -- 15.00 a month for 5 pcs and 500 gigs is pretty solid. 5 bucks for 150 gigs. Definitely usable. I am a big fan of it because you can open it up like a windows explorer window and browse around - really integrated well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I'd much rather keep everything in house. It's not hard to make/configure a server to back stuff up to. Plus online backups eat up a lot of bandwidth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thrustin Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I use Mozy. It took months before it said all of my files had been backed up. I never figured out what the intitial issue was, but after a couple of run-ins with their tech helpers, they got it up an running properly. I do not have any issues with them at this time, however I've haven't had a crash under their watch yet, so who knows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Super Bass Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I'd much rather keep everything in house. It's not hard to make/configure a server to back stuff up to. Plus online backups eat up a lot of bandwidth. +1 I haven't bothered doing this but my brother has a sweet setup for his backups. I can't remember the specifics other than he has two backups of everything. But it didn't cost him that much to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted November 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 8, 2009 I use a local network server and then make periodic copies of the data on it to store in an external drive I keep offsite. Each week I essentially have one copy on my laptop, two copies on my server (RAID5) and at least one copy offsite on an external drive. I've considered moving to online backups, but I'm happy with my setup (at the moment) and I'm always concerned about the sensitivity of my data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thunderbroom Posted November 8, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I am not sure I would consider a pay service - they are all pretty expensive. I'd use some FTP space somewhere and some open source stuff if I didn't have more than I need at Idrive. Carbonite is less than $60 per year for unlimited backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted November 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 8, 2009 I have a local backup. If my house burned down, my local solution is useless. Offsite seems smart to me. No doubt. Onsite only isn't a backup at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I have a local backup. If my house burned down, my local solution is useless. Offsite seems smart to me. There are ways around this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted November 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 8, 2009 Carbonite is less than $60 per year for unlimited backup. Looks reasonable, but without looking more into it, I expect they are backing up current files and not running an archive. I'd have to run a separate archive for things not presently stored on my laptop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thunderbroom Posted November 8, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 There are ways around this. If it is simple to setup and does backups in real-time then I'm open to whatever it is you're talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 If it is simple to setup and does backups in real-time then I'm open to whatever it is you're talking about. All you have to do is set up a computer in a place other than your home, or a safe place in your home, but close enough for a wireless (or wired) connection. Sometimes you have to be creative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted November 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 8, 2009 All you have to do is set up a computer in a place other than your home, or a safe place in your home, but close enough for a wireless (or wired) connection. Sometimes you have to be creative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members oldivor Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 (;-_-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Thunderbroom Posted November 8, 2009 Author Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 All you have to do is set up a computer in a place other than your home, or a safe place in your home, but close enough for a wireless (or wired) connection. Sometimes you have to be creative. Or I could pay a company $60 per year to do it for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members hammer744 Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 Or I could pay a company $60 per year to do it for me. Take your pick... Here's a quick review site (they seem to favor Mozy). http://www.onlinebackupsreview.com/reviews.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 No doubt. Onsite only isn't a backup at all. I have the advantage of regularly visiting my parents out of state. Since documents are all that really need to be backed up (oh noes, I lost my firefox preferences!!!), the total amount of data is actually pretty small. A single external hard drive can back up multiple computers, and a single off site computer (for me, it's the old box I keep in Detroit) can then periodically be used to back up the hard drive. Worst case scenario, if my home and work computers die simultaneously, I lose at most a month or two of data... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rpsands Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I am really happy with the Idrive setup/interface and it does have a continuous backup; that said, I am not really concerned about losing a day's worth of data in most cases, so I just run it once a day (and have it shut my computer off aftwards if I want). It does have incremental backups and can allow point in time restores. Seems to allow up to roughly 30 days of backup sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Kindness Posted November 8, 2009 Moderators Share Posted November 8, 2009 Worst case scenario, if my home and work computers die simultaneously, I lose at most a month or two of data... I used to be okay with that. Now that would hurt a lot. I'm going to have to move from weekly offsite backups (continuous local) to daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted November 8, 2009 Members Share Posted November 8, 2009 I used to be okay with that. Now that would hurt a lot. I'm going to have to move from weekly offsite backups (continuous local) to daily. It's a double offsite though...My home and work would have to die and the hard drive fail all at the same time for me to lose even a month or two of data...if it's only two of the three, I'm covered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted November 9, 2009 Members Share Posted November 9, 2009 I'd get a new external hard drive, rather than using an online service. The entire point to an external drive is to archive your stuff in a secure manner. Sending stuff out-of-house negates security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members King Kashue Posted November 9, 2009 Members Share Posted November 9, 2009 The entire point to an external drive is to archive your stuff in a secure manner. Not necessarily. I couldn't care less about security, I only want to ensure I don't lose the time spent generating the files...It's of no matter to me whether someone can read my new series of lecture notes, but having to do the research again and write it all up a second time? That would piss me off greatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bluescout Posted November 9, 2009 Members Share Posted November 9, 2009 I recommend Mozy. It's cheap, offsite, automatic, unlimited, and archiving. People are their own downfall when it comes to backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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