Online Backup Sites - Recommendations, Tips, Opinions Requested

PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
edited August 2008 in Nerdery
Anybody use any of the remote backup sites like Carbonite and Mozy? I'm looking to backup keep files like financial data, pictures, and important documents. I have about 750 GB of movies, music, comics, etc as well, but I don't think the upload speeds are fast enough to really make uploading that much data for backup...

Just curious what anyone else is doing as I currently have 4 harddrives and just back up the primary 2 to the backup 2.
Thanks,
Jeff

Comments

  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited August 2008
    Check out BackBlaze.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited August 2008
    Preacher, good to see you here online!

    Sorry, but I don't get it. Why would you want remote backup when you clearly have the technical know-how to backup to external drives? Is this a security issue - not having all your eggs in the same location?


    Check your PMs. :)
  • mas0nmas0n howdy Icrontian
    edited August 2008
    I've just started using Carbonite. $50 per year, unlimited. I've got 85GB out there right now. If you lose everything you just download their client and log in.

    Leo, I still run anything important on RAID 1 and backup to a separate PC over LAN, but it's just the added security that if everything else fails or goes up in flames you still won't lose data.

    EDIT: Also, Preacher. The initial backup took 1 week for ~85GB, and since then the incremental backups go unnoticed by me. It could go faster if you have a good upload; I'm stuck at ~640kbps up. My test restore also was limited by my home connection with 7000kbps down.
  • PreacherPreacher Potomac, MD Icrontian
    edited August 2008
    Thanks, Prime. That definitely looks like a possibility...now I have to decide between between Carbonite, Backblaze, and Mozy.

    Leo,
    Sorry for the delay. I just replied back to your PM. Sorry to be gone for SO long...Just dropped out of the Icrontic Life. Nothing intentional or any issue with anyone/anything on the site; life and laziness just kinda got in the way.

    It's not really a security issue, and I do have an additional backup. However, if the house burned down and I lost my pictures, financial data, family files, papers, etc. It would MAJORLY SUCK.

    Mason,
    Your reasoning and technical plan are very similar to mine. I'm not running RAID, but I do have a simple backup schedule. It seems like you'd recommend Carbonite?
    While I thought I had a fast cable modem in Maine, I'm on a FIOS fiber connection now with 20 Mbps/20 Mbps. It's unreal. I'm actually considering uploading all the other digital detritus I've bought, burned, bartered for, or burglarized over the last 10 years. I have 800 Gb of schtuff....

    I'm feeling wild and crazy enough to try uploading it all over a month or two...
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