Online backup like Dropbox and Adrive

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jay clock

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Hampshire UK
I am a huge fan of Dropbox but this has ltd storage (about 2GB). It has the massive benefit of allowing me to set my default saving locations for my home and work pc, so whatever I put on one can be accessed on the other.

I have now signed up for Adrive. 50GB but less easy to use and requires manually copying things to the site unless you pay for a premium account at $7 a mth. I am using it anyway for free to back up 10 yrs worth of photos.

Any other similar places you can recommend?

Jay
 
I used mozy home backup for a while and still do for documents. Very easy to use and very good and I think it's cheaper, especially if you buy a year or two up front.
 

ASC1951

Guru
Location
Yorkshire
Dropbox is great for sharing files between pc's, phone, tablets etc but I wouldnt use it for backups.

I use iDrive -> CLICK ME for backups.
Thanks for that link, Phil.

I have used Drpobox for a couple of years, mainly for backups. The confidentiality issue doesn't worry me hugely, because my data is important to me but worthless to anyone else.
 
I would steer away from Cloud backup. It all seems fine and easy adding bits to it at a time but it soon adds up and if the Cloud provider runs into trouble or you need to recover your backups you can be talking of trying to download hundreds of Gb of more of data. With the cheapness of storage these days its much better to back up to a hard drive or two and keep one in a different location e.g. a drawer at work. Also remember to check your backups are real. I know of more than one red face when it came to doing a restore.
 

phil_hg_uk

I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
When I backup I do a file backup to a seperate drive then a partition backup to a different drive then a backup of both drives to an external USB drive and I also do an incremental backup to the net using iDrive.

The point of using iDrive is incase anything happens to the physical drives here.

I take RL's point about how long it would take to download loads of data but I take the view that if the worst happened to the physical backups then it is better than nothing, but I wouldnt use the net as a primary backup as you have no control over it and it wouldnt be the first time one of these companies has screwed and lost the data on the servers.
 
it wouldnt be the first time one of these companies has screwed and lost the data on the servers.

Or gone out of business. When my daughters did their Gap Year round the world trip they blogged on a blogging site that is no more. Fortunately I had backed it all up for them so it wasn't all lost. Lots of such companies don't last very long.
 

Boris Bike

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I used mozy home backup for a while and still do for documents. Very easy to use and very good and I think it's cheaper, especially if you buy a year or two up front.
Mozy have stopped offering unlimited backup. The amount of photos and home videos I back up will force me up to almost $300.
 
Mozy have stopped offering unlimited backup. The amount of photos and home videos I back up will force me up to almost $300.

A friend in the industry told me current prices are not sustainable and once people have enough data on the Cloud to make moving it around impractical, prices will rise with quasi captive customers
 

Boris Bike

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A friend in the industry told me current prices are not sustainable and once people have enough data on the Cloud to make moving it around impractical, prices will rise with quasi captive customers
But unless they all do it together, people will just move from the people who charge per GB to the ones who don't.
 
But unless they all do it together, people will just move from the people who charge per GB to the ones who don't.

You missed the point. If you've got a lot of data on there, moving becomes very difficult because you need to download it and re-upload it.
 

phil_hg_uk

I am not a member, I am a free man !!!!!!
You missed the point. If you've got a lot of data on there, moving becomes very difficult because you need to download it and re-upload it.

Thats why I only use it as a backup, if I need to move to another company I just delete all the data from their server then leave the PC on for a few days while it does the initial backup on the new companies server as the data on the server is only a copy of whats on the PC already
 
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I have a back up on an external hard drive and back up to Adrive as well. I was using myotherdrive.com but had problems with it being slow and stopped using it.
 
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