FredFredrickson;372698 Wrote: > You know, with such a large library that I have, I've given up on buying > more and more hardware, keeping things painless and safe are hard to > do. > > So I've decided on using an online backup program - there's an > unlimited one for $5/month, no size limit called MOZY. Now I have 150GB > and a 768kbps upload connection, so the initial backup is taking a few > months- > > but once that backup is done, it automatically updates the backup set > with new and changed files, and does so quickly. So it turns out to be > a really good solution. > I looked into online backup services, but decided against using one (at least for now). Not only does it take months just to do the initial backup of hundreds of gigabytes, if you ever need to -retrieve- the files, it will take months to get them back. The speed of your internet connection isn't the limiting factor. The backup services intentionally limit the rate at which they trickle out data to any one user. Most of the services won't even tell you the data rate you can get copying files back out. And worse, if one of these services is going of business, they do not guarantee that they will provide users enough advance notice to download all their files before the plug gets pulled on the service.
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