It's pretty cheap, and you can get a Firefox extension that makes management painless. You only pay for what you use bandwidth-wise, and there's the storage fee. Quote:Originally posted by crestfallen:You could look at Amazon S3. But it's not meant for heavy-duty backups and archiving. Then it's gone.Don't get me wrong, I like Mozy a lot, and recommend it to every "casual" user I know. So if you delete a file on your machine, Mozy only keeps that file for a certain amount of time. It keeps a "mirror" of your data, and only for a while. ![]() Right, but like I said, if you are generating a lot of data, Mozy will never "catch up".And, Mozy doesn't archive stuff. So? You still have the external HDD as protection while Mozy is chugging. quote: Even backing up 20 or 30GB of data via Mozy can take days. Quote:Originally posted by Emkorial:quote:it's $10 a month for 100+GB which would be adequate for my needs Why would you play $10 for 100GB when Mozy is $5 for unlimited? I have Syncback running on all the computers in the house which backup all data to an external HDD on my computer, and then that computer has a mozy account which backs everything up to them. Even backing up 20 or 30GB of data via Mozy can take days. But if you are generating more than a gig or 2 every day, forget it. If you aren't generating a lot of data every day, then it is great. This is the simplest and fastest method to get good backups at home.Mozy is fine, but like all the online backup services, it's just too slow to backup lots of data. Then you rotate them, so that one is always "off-site". So my query is this: do you use a web (or cloud) based backup service and if so, which one? Do you like them? What's the pricing like? Is it encrypted? How intrusive is the backup client?Thanks Ars! You need a second external drive (and possibly a third). A friend suggested Spider Oak for this kind of service it's $10 a month for 100+GB which would be adequate for my needs, but I'm not sure about the company itself. ![]() I have a free Mozy account that I never use, however, and 2GB (or whatever the free limit is) is nowhere near enough. Given that having a tape drive at home is prohibitively expensive and somewhat ridiculous, my "backup" regimen consists of robocopying my critical data (documents, pictures and music) to an external 500GB drive as well was praying to the various computer gods that I don't lose both the laptop and external drive simultaneously.Obviously, I need a better backup solution. Quote:Originally posted by Thallium:I'm a poweruser with a laptop and a gaming PC, with a lot of data spread across both machines.
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