Tarsnap. Simple, cheap, efficient, honestly secure.
I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form.
Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#12dropbox
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#13I won a Spideroak ( http://www.spideroak.com ) plan and have been using it for about a month now. It works, uploads are fast, I can't comment on how easy a restore would be. The only thing that's really annoying is that a search for updated files uses 100% CPU.
Other than that I can warmly recommend JungleDisk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ), been using it do backup my source code and documents for about a year now without any major problems. I don't even notice it runs anymore. I'm using it with the S3 backend.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#14Assuming you want Windows, try the fast & free application called Duplicati:
http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/
Their 1.0 release is out and works excellently with S3. It can't be set up as a Windows service yet, but that functionality is on its way.
For Linux, my favorite is another free utility called Amanda Network Backup:
Supports S3 and MySQL backups. Really easy to set up and has commercial support if you need it.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#15Don't be too quick to overlook Dropbox. I use it for almost everything.
I use Dropbox in combination with Crashplan. Dropbox for "live" files, and Crashplan for "archive" files.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#16I use JungleDisk (https://www.jungledisk.com/) - it's good because it can be used for backups, syncing, and previous versions of synced folders. It also does multiple users and multiple operating systems (Mac/Windows - probably does Linux too but I haven't checked).
It's also quite cheap.
I previously used Mozy, which was excellent, but only does backup. Mozy was much more efficient over the wire, better at notifications and better about resuming very large backup sets. But unfortunately doesn't do synced folders and the rest.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#17Tarsnap. Simple, cheap, efficient, honestly secure. I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form. Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
Tarsnap is great
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#18Tarsnap. Simple, cheap, efficient, honestly secure. I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form. Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
Tarsnap - for home and work. Fantastic service.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#19I won a Spideroak ( http://www.spideroak.com ) plan and have been using it for about a month now. It works, uploads are fast, I can't comment on how easy a restore would be. The only thing that's really annoying is that a search for updated files uses 100% CPU. Other than that I can warmly recommend JungleDisk ( https://www.jungledisk.com/ ), been using it do backup my source code and documents for about a year now w…
Do a trial run of a restore. I've seen too many backups fail/be incomplete to trust that backup works without validation; test that you can get back what you need to.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite online-backup tool?
#20No one has mentioned my current favorite, iDrive. I didn't want to spend more than $5-10/month on online backups, and found that Tarsnap, Dropbox, JungleDisk, etc all got expensive too quickly to back up 100GB+.
I wanted to like Mozy but the mac client crashed on me and the uploads were slow.
iDrive gives you 150gb for $5/month. Plus the mac client is reliable, the uploads are quick, and they let multiple computers share space if you want.