I've seen crash plan and I used DropBox and iDisk with mobile me All cloud based backups for me though suffer the same problem, I lack symmetric bandwidth and enough data allowances in Australia to make that work for me.
So for me its 1TB drive and Time Machine. It's cheaper just to have two drives, one at work, one at home, backup in two places.... On Feb 14, 10:42 am, klauer <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't heard anyone mention CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com), > which has it's own comparison of pricing terms to its > competitorshttp://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.
