Hey Greg I was using Mozy until they stopped offering unlimited backups. I decided to look around and am now using Crashplan. I was impressed by the software and got their 4 year deal with the "leaving Mozy discount" they had running some months back. I think it was about $200 or so (forget exact amount), but around the same as Mozy for 4 times as long (and unlimited), for up to 10 machines in the one household. (Instead of 3 machines).
Only complaint was that it seems to be slowing down my machine during backups. I changed the schedule from always backup to only backup during the evenings when i'm not using my machine. It has a cool feature that lets you backup machines locally (or your friends as well.). I'm backing up my brothers laptop from wherever he is. Obviously bandwidth needs to be considered but you have granular control over what you backup, and you can throttle both lan and wan backups. Like I said, I was so impressed after a few hours of playing with the software, I paid for 4 years worth. I did need some support (it was not indexing/backing up all of my selected disks for some reason) and the support was quick. They got me to enter some commands into the client which told it to reindex the backup plan and away it went, not had a problem since. Restores (the important part!) can be done locally through the client, or via their webpage where it zips up your file selection and then lets you download the files via normal browser. I know what you mean about the ones that make you feel like it was targetting a non computer user. I felt the same when I looked around. Crashplan won for me. I also use Dropbox for file syncing between machines. 2Gb (plus extra if you refer someone or get referred by someone). Its handy for getting files from whereever you are. Might be what you are after if its just 200Mb of files. Was going to say it wont help if you corrupt your file but just remembered it has some versioning built in. Never used that option though, but it is there. Just had a look and context menu in explorer opens up a web page with versioning history for the file you selected. cheers, Stephen On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, yeah it’s me again, futzing overtime. > > > > I’ve been reading the results of web searches on expressions like “cloud > backup” and I’m getting interesting results, but some of them (like > Backblaze) want to treat you like a dummy and have some locally installed > utility run backups for you. Some are really expensive (mostly AU), and some > are suspiciously cheap. As usual, it’s like trying to pick fruit at the > market, too much choice and too many options. > > > > Has anyone here chosen a cloud backup provider that just gives you a vanilla > service for pros like us who know what and when we want to back things up? > No fancy UIs or patronising apps, or at least ones that have a small > footprint. > > > > I personally wouldn’t want more than about 200MB of space for my vital > files. > > > > I have backups on memory sticks, and on a removable drive, and I have > monthly DVDs with alternate ones placed in the tool shed for offsite backup. > But, I’d still like the convenience of zipping files when I feel like it and > sending to cloud backup. > > > > Lord knows about the security issues! That’s something I’d like to be > reassured about. > > > > Greg
