Thanks Brian. I use Carbonite as my cloud backup paid service. Do you consider Carbonite* as one of the paid services you referred to? What do you use as backup? I store my media on the service and why DropBox sends me messages that it's full and no longer syncing but I don't know if it's worth paying the additional cost to have more storage on DropBox, and therefore drop Carbonite or have both. I also backup to a Toshiba external harddrive, that doesn't allow me to look at my files. This Toshiba harddrive was recommended by a computer repair person who also can't configure the hard drive to where I can open folders and files. *I have the lowest tier of Carbonite. It took over a week to download all the files from Carbonite to my computer when I had computer trouble, and why I'm shopping around.
Thanks for all your tips and help! Gloria :-) On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 1:34 AM Brian Kelly <exma...@gmail.com> wrote: > There are several cloud backup/storage services: > Some offer Free storage that is usually adequate for a Legacy Database > but may not be sufficient if you also store your media backups on the > service. My Media backup for example is a 2.7 Gigabyte file my Legacy > Backup is only 10 Megabytes > These offer free storage > Dropbox > OneDrive by Microsoft > Backup and Sync by Goggle (Goggle Drive) > > They also have expanded storage for a fee. > > There are also a number of paid services which provide cloud based storage. > > For Dropbox, Goggle Drive and OneDrive there is a special folder on your > local hard drive set up by the service/App. Files stored there are > automatically synced to the cloud by the App. For those apps you only > need to set your backups to use the special local folder and the App > will send a copy to the cloud. > > Most of the paid services allow you to specify folders and/or files > which the service will backup to the cloud. Designating your Legacy Data > and Media folders in those services mean you can store your files and > backups wherever you wish and the service will sync them to the cloud > storage. > > Because those cloud storage services are syncing files/folders from your > local hard drive there is no need to have a second backup to the cloud > option once the legacy cloud storage shuts down. > > There is a suggestion to modify the backup to allow making backups in > multiple locations, you can add your vote for this by submitting a > suggestion using the Link on the Legacy Home Tab or by email to > supp...@legacyfamilytree.com > > Brian Kelly > > On 15-Dec.-20 11:08 p.m., scjo...@optusnet.com.au wrote: > > > > /I have been using Legacy Cloud, but as it is to cease, I am now looking > > for recommendations for another cloud program. / > > / > > / > > /I liked on the back up screen, it also asked if you wished to back up > > to the cloud. Would it be possible to enter the link to another program > > there?/ > > / > > / > > /Many thanks/ > > /Susan Jones/ > > // > > // > > // > > /Researching; Pegrum, Aitchison, Armstrong, Mewburn, Elliott, Crawford, > > Haggis, Rafferty, Price, Gough, Pearman, Foley, Whitelaw, Loftus, > > Frawley, Riddell, Watt, Hunter/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Email sent using Optus Webmail > > > > -- > > LegacyUserGroup mailing list > LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com > To manage your subscription and unsubscribe > http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com > Archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >
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