I haven't heard anyone mention CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com), which has it's own comparison of pricing terms to its competitors http://b2.crashplan.com/consumer/features-compare.html
>From what it shows, 2TB can be stored at $54/year for one(1) person, which is pretty reasonable in comparison to their mentioned alternatives (Carbonite, Mozy, Pure Amazon S3). I've used CrashPlan's free version in the past, and I think the interface is pretty stellar, as it allows you to specify what you want to back up as opposed to having to do a blanket upload of your entire hard drive. -Nick On Feb 13, 3:27 am, grydholt <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just heard Joe's search for an online backup solution. As I understood > him, he does not need instant online access to the files ("I like > robots"). My low cost solution would be to buy a large 2TB drive and > put it into a Mac (I guess Windows is not an option in this case). The > drive would then be used to consolidate all the photos. In other > words, all photos from various sources (other laptops, desktops, and > various harddrives) should be copied onto this drive. Then open a > Carbonite account and backup the photos for a flat $55 a year. The > advantage is clearly the price, some of the disadvantages: > > - Can only backup internal drives, you need to copy all photos to > this drive > - You cannot easily access the data from other places, this is a > local backup solution only. If you need access/backups from various > computers, you'll need something like dropbox or spideroak, but that's > pricy > > Personally, I am running spideroak for all data, but it is running > close to my 100GB limit. I plan to split my data into two tiers. One > tier is that the data I want to easily share between computers like > mp3 files and photos. I'll be able to keep this under 100GB for the > foreseeable future. The other tier will be flac files and home videos > (which kind of kills the Posse's argument that the normal user does > not need TB's of backup). This tier, I plan to backup using something > like Carbonite since it has a flat rate. I've set up my parent's > computer with Carbonite and it was very user friendly (backup default > Windows folders automatically). > > <tinfoil hat on> > For Europeans, note that the data will probably be uploaded to the US, > and I don't know if Carbonite falls under safe harbour agreements > between the U.S. and the E.U. Of course, the data is supposed to be > encrypted with your own personal key, but you never know... > </tinfoil hat on> > > /grydholt -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
