Backup App
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Kevin Marois wrote:
Free would be nice.
Don't; unless you don't really care about your data. Pay for a proper service that guarantees your data. I have been using Online Cloud Backup | IDrive®[^] for a few years and find it well worth the money.
I was just going to say that. Why is "free" even a contender if you actually care about the data? How invested can anyone be in providing a free service? They have to monetize through some other means. What's the long-term prospect? Use the freebies as an extra backup only, if you insist on putting anything online to begin with. But "free" should never be the first solution.
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I was just going to say that. Why is "free" even a contender if you actually care about the data? How invested can anyone be in providing a free service? They have to monetize through some other means. What's the long-term prospect? Use the freebies as an extra backup only, if you insist on putting anything online to begin with. But "free" should never be the first solution.
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Kevin Marois wrote:
Free would be nice.
Don't; unless you don't really care about your data. Pay for a proper service that guarantees your data. I have been using Online Cloud Backup | IDrive®[^] for a few years and find it well worth the money.
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OK, so I had a close call and almost lost all my important data. I want to set up some cloud based backup. I'm considering using Google Drive and DropBox. I have AOMIE Backupper, but it turns out it doesn't to cloud backup. Can you guys recommend something. Free would be nice.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I've been using Backblaze for a while now - not free, but pretty cheap. I haven't needed to restore yet (aside from a couple of specific files here and there), so maybe I'm not fully qualified to recommend the service, but I've heard good things from other users.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Pay for a proper service that guarantees your data.
Keep in mind however that the guarantee only extends to point that company manages to remain solvent. True of any company of course.
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I've been using Backblaze for a while now - not free, but pretty cheap. I haven't needed to restore yet (aside from a couple of specific files here and there), so maybe I'm not fully qualified to recommend the service, but I've heard good things from other users.
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I'd agree - and a'd encrypt the data before it left my systems as well. That's one of the problems I have with the whole cloud thing - you have no idea who you are actually dealing with, what data security procedures they use, how well backed up the data you send them is. Or even if they will still be in business next week when you actually need the data.
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True. I got caught out when Microsoft Store closed down. I was bitten again when British Telecom decided to abandon their attempt at cloud storage. These days I have a library of portable spinning discs. Yes, sometimes they fail but a couple of copies of important stuff seems to be the way to go.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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OK, so I had a close call and almost lost all my important data. I want to set up some cloud based backup. I'm considering using Google Drive and DropBox. I have AOMIE Backupper, but it turns out it doesn't to cloud backup. Can you guys recommend something. Free would be nice.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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OK, so I had a close call and almost lost all my important data. I want to set up some cloud based backup. I'm considering using Google Drive and DropBox. I have AOMIE Backupper, but it turns out it doesn't to cloud backup. Can you guys recommend something. Free would be nice.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
You should take a look at Acronis True Image there's a subscription where you can add Cloud Storage if you want, I use it for local backups only to an external drive and it has worked great the 2 times I had to recover data (one time the full System and other time only some files)
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OK, so I had a close call and almost lost all my important data. I want to set up some cloud based backup. I'm considering using Google Drive and DropBox. I have AOMIE Backupper, but it turns out it doesn't to cloud backup. Can you guys recommend something. Free would be nice.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
If one of the biggest credit reporting services gets hacked, then any big company is vulnerable. I have a SQL Server box, a Web server box, an email server, and 2 workstations. Backing up is critical. I purchased 6 1TB drives and a 6TB Western Digital My Cloud Home, which I use as a NAS. I backup weekly to the 1TB drives. I use TeraByte Unlimited image to backup each box. Much faster than backing up to the cloud.
