Online Backup? - Frisco-Online Forums

lholton2 · 12-10-2010, 02:05 PM

Who do you recommend. I have two computers.

acorcoran · 12-10-2010, 02:29 PM

We use Mozy...its a great product! (www.mozy.com) Carbonite is also a good one...either would do what you want.

rayearth · 12-10-2010, 03:30 PM

I use Sugar Sync:

https://www.sugarsync.com/

penguin · 12-10-2010, 04:28 PM

Notice that they don't all agree.

Interesting comparison chart of specs, etc:

http://online-data-backup-review.toptenreviews.com/

Two other comparisons:

http://www.nextadvisor.com/online_ba...ices/index.php

http://www.consumersearch.com/online-backup-services

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IBM5081 · 12-10-2010, 07:14 PM

Mozy

lovinlife · 12-10-2010, 10:03 PM

Hey lholton2...I tried to respond to your PM, but you have your PM feature turned off where you can't receive PM's. Let me know once you change it and I'll shoot you a message back.

bsquared · 12-11-2010, 04:47 PM

another satisfied Mozy user here

rasetsu · 12-13-2010, 10:24 AM

Have you considered just getting an external hard drive? They are very cheap and easy to use and your data won't be in the hands of a third party. You can backup what you want and keep the drive in a safe deposit box.

DachshundDiva · 12-13-2010, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by rasetsu

Have you considered just getting an external hard drive? They are very cheap and easy to use and your data won't be in the hands of a third party. You can backup what you want and keep the drive in a safe deposit box.

I have everything backed up on CD's and DVD's. It only took one crash many years ago to make me compulsive about backing all my stuff up. I think we are going to switch to a pair of All In One's and so the external harddrive is going to be my next purchase.

Bull_07 · 12-13-2010, 02:05 PM

My vote is Mozy, but I haven't tried carbonite. I'm currently backing up 1.6TB of data. 2 thoughts on this.

If you are backing up a small amount of data every day and you can unplug and put the backup drive in a fireproof/waterproof safe then you should be ok.

If your data grows Music/MP3/Movies and you may go over your external drive space, then the unlimitted online is the best. For me at the time 1 1TB external drive pays for 2 years of Mozy. I was sure that in 2 years I would need another external drive so that would buy me another 2 years. Turns out it was only 6 months later that I updgraded my internal drives to 4.5TB so for me to buy a 2TB external and possibly another later, I will have multiple years of Mozy paid for.

Also, if you don't have a fireproof/waterproof safe that you are going to put the drive in, then what happens if you get robbed and they happen to take your PC and drive, or a fire that burns your PC and external. You just need to ask yourself how valuable is your data and what risk you are willing to live with. Then you will know if Online, External drive, internal mirror, or no backup is what you should do.

ETA, Forgot to add that I started backing up online once a friend's house burnt down and I was just able to recover the data off their laptops.