Online storage/backup solutions - what do you use?

[Patrick]

Re: Online storage/backup solutions - what do you use?

They are doing 1tb 2.5 inch drives now, they fit in your pocket, where is the hassle?
Saying that, Ive been into computers since the old acorn electron, and touch my old grey matter, Ive never had a drive actually totally fail!
I may have just been lucky, but depending on usage and aslong as you dont move them around while the drive is spinning are very durable things.
Maybe we all being a bit panicky about the whole backup situation!

Hi Ash

You have been fortunate, in the past 20 years or so I have had two go down the first time I had CD backups then but they were not up to date, so lost some images. Learned the lesson and now back up everything regularly so when the second one went I had an up to date H/D backup.

Don't fancy online backup, not keen on the idea of all my data being on a system I don't own. In other words I don't trust them.

Patrick

[addieleman]

Re: Online storage/backup solutions - what do you use?

Some months ago I bought a new PC and started copying all my data from my old PC to it. Lo and behold, some image files appeared to be corrupt! Fortunately I had a backup of those images and could retrieve them from there. My wife had some mishaps of a more serious nature and likes backups as well.

Lesson: don't take chances, make backups! Indeed Ash must have been lucky. I have some reservations also about having backups on a system I don't own and have control of.

[JSR]

Re: Online storage/backup solutions - what do you use?

I know this is a bit of an old thread, but those looking for online storage might want to check out Box.net before December 2nd.

http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-storage-box50gb/

I prefer DropBox myself, but Box.net are currently running a special promotion for anyone with an iDevice (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch). If you sign up before December 2nd, you get 50GB online storage absolutely free.

There are some limitations (no client-side sync app unless you pay, filesize limited to 100MB, monthly download bandwidth limited to 10GB), which is why I still prefer Dropbox, but 50GB isn't really to be complained about. I'm using it to shift small non-critical files (audio files mainly) off my DropBox so I can use DropBox for larger and more critical files.