I use Skydrive to keep working files in sync between my various laptops and workstations (though seems a bit more fussy about firewalls than Mesh Beta was), but for backups you need a real backup solution. You accidentally delete a file on a sync service and you'll soon realize the difference (as Mike M will attest).
I eval'd Mozzy, but eventually went with Crashplan. I'm paying for the unlimited, multi-machine option, which seems to work pretty well. After the wife's laptop died the kind of sudden violent death that only SSD's can really manage I'm a bit more sensitive to backing *all of them* up, and this is definitely a step up from occasionally burning DVDs and sticking them in my desk drawer. Crashplan also has a mode (usable in the free version) where you can backup to a friend / family's PC (if they've got lots of free space). Even better if they're in a different country, far from the impending disaster. One limitation with Crashplan is that (mostly due to the licencing model, but there are some technical reasons too) backups from UNC shares are not supported (possible, just not supported), so your NAS devices are exposed. (As an aside: one of these guys should team up with one of our major ISPs to offer an integrated, unmetered service. They'd clean up I reckon. Anyone from IINet listening?) On 1 June 2011 09:14, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen, > > Windows Live Mesh works great. It's free for up to 5Gb and uses the Windows > SkyDrive to store the data: > http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh?os=other > It's more of a sync service than backup (if you delete a file it gets > deleted from the cloud storage and it does not store older versions of > files) > > I just love it. I sync data with multiple computers and has basically zero > CPU usage during sync. > The other services is DropBox. Quite good. > > Corneliu > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Luu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> You could also sync/backup your stuff to Windows Live SkyDrive - >> http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive >> >> >> On 1 June 2011 10:30, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Stephen, Crashplan looked great until I noticed they have some kind of >>> per-machine restriction on all but the top plan. This make no sense, as >>> if I >>> buy the space, then I expect to be able to use from absa-bloody-lutely >>> anywhere, I mean, it's the space that counts, not where it comes from -- >>> Greg >>> >>> >> > -- piers more pedantry at http://piers7.blogspot.com/
