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Web backup solutions, your help is requested
| By Rich Tretola | October 10, 2008 |  Print This Post
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I have been investigating web based backup solutions like Mozy, iDrive, etc. So, I am looking to the community for some feedback on these types of solutions. Who do you use? What kind of experience are you getting with your solution? Oh, and this would be for a Mac in my case.
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October 10th, 2008 at 5:24 am
dropbox rocks for me!
http://www.getdropbox.com/
Rich Tretola Reply:
October 10th, 2008 at 7:40 am
dropbox is pretty sweet for sharing files and I have already installed in on my Mac and Window machines. But, I was looking for move of a simple remote file store.
October 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Hello,
I am using Cobian Backup (http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm) that supports strong encryption and host my files with dropbox (getdropbox.com).
As cobian is a little slow I am also using SyncToy for a fast replication of my workspace to other drives
Hope this helps
October 10th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hi
I use both Mozy and Dropbox on OSX 5.5. Mozy is a decent enough solution - it does the job but offers nothing special. The mac client is also less feature complete than Windows’, I’ve been told.
Dropbox, while not a really backup solution, is absolutely awesome so far. I think I’ll drop my Mozy pro account for a dropbox pro account sooner or later.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I just rsync to protected folders on my web hosting account. They give me way more space than I need at bluehost.com so it’s fairly painless.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
I prefer IDrive over Mozy. Mozy and others are much slower compared to IDrive. If you have sizeable amount of data to be backed up, you are better off with IDrive.
The difference is speed is even more visible for restores.
Also I found IDrive easier.
I like dropbox too for its sync features. But way too expensive if you have lots of data.
October 10th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
If you decide that you like the look of Mozy make sure you get a 10% discount at signup. The latest discount codes are at http://www.unlimitedbackup.net. Don’t sign up without it!
Thanks
Martin
October 10th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
I use http://www.carbonite.com
I use it because it cost very low, AND it is not limited to the size of you backup…
My current backup (Picture, movies, project, etc) is 24Gb. and counting… they have no problem with the size…
Worth it.
btw: it’s quite, and un-noticeable!
just bought two years of it for $89
October 11th, 2008 at 8:04 am
I backup my files and emails with a very easy to use software called Titan Backup, the destination is a 500gb WD harddisk, but the company stated that an online feature is under work also. Give it a free trial here.
I also got my hands on a 30% discount coupon from them, during the order process enter this coupon:NEOB-M5VL
October 13th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Dropbox is awesome. uses amazonS3 as backend, so you are assured of a proper backup. its super simple (drag and drop) to upload and download files. uses delta blocking, so you don’t have to upload whole files when a little bit has changed. never deletes anything, so you can go back to infinite history. you can collaborate/share folders with other groups. (acts like a simple svn). I use that all the time for uni group projects.
dropbox is free (2GB free), you can upgrade for more. And the developers really rock.
October 14th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I’ve been using Mozy for last year and a half. Seems to work great though the client is not very intuitive. One concern is that my hard drive fried about five months back and I could either download a backup of my 60 GB of data over about three days OR order DVD’s. I was in a rush and chose the latter and they never sent them. Took me three weeks to get a refund, by which time I had managed to recover the data from my HD. So iow - I actually need to look for a new service myself - Mozy seems to work great - though jury still out on how good they are when you really need them, which is of course the whole point of a backup service.