For your wife, I would recommend Mozy Home. It's transparent with
a decent user interface, it's free up to a certain size, cheap
after that, you can have a private key or one that can be
recovered from Mozy. You just can't do filesharing... only
backup and restore.
db
DB, I just signed up for Mozy at home. Price was great for unlimited
storage. But, it is so S-L-O-W that it's almost pointless to have.
It will take me YEARS to back everything up at this rate. I have 450
GB of music,podcasts,tv shows, photos,plugins and documents to back
up. I am on a Mac....maybe that makes a difference but it has Mac
software. I had it running for 24 hrs and it had only uploaded a
tiny fraction of a % of the total files! So I stopped it and set it
to only backup my documents folder which is 13GB. It has been
running all day and only has 10% uploaded so far. It also slows down
my web browsing and I couldn't get email to go out unless I stopped
it. It's running now and email is going out so not sure what changed.
All in all, unless you only have a tiny amount to backup, I don't
think it's such a good solution. And, you can't go on and "see" your
files. You have to redownload the backup to see it. Guess I'll
stick with external drives and try to remember to take it to my son's
house.
Oh, I'm on Comcast Cable with currently 19703 kbps down and 1511 kbps up
Paula
IN/USA
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arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather
to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body
thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a
ride!" Have a wonderful day!
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