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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?
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?
I've been pretty happy with Crashplan ( http://crashplan.com/ )so far. The free version will allow you to backup to one or more remote machines which you can seed via a hard drive if you want to avoid uploading hundreds of Gb for the initial backup. They have options to backup to their data center too for a competitive rate (unlimited storage). Transfers are encrypted, de-duplicated and compressed, supports file vers…
I also love the fact that you get email alerts about the backup status for every destination (in one email) local or to remote.
I've been extremely happy with the service. It keeps multiple versions of files and backs them up continuously if you have CrashPlan+. This has already saved my bacon more than once.
The icing on the cake is that you can designate some storage as a backup well of sorts and have your family (or other computers) back up to this destination. This is very easy to setup and has worked flawlessly for me, no networking or "what is my ip" voodoo.
I switched from Mozy because the client was much more efficient. If you're looking at Mozy and Carbonite, definitely check out Backblaze.
(Also, I met the CEO a few years back--seemed like a smart guy).
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?
I don't particularly have many concerns with the security of Dropbox, but I do keep some personally sensitive information on there, and TrueCrypt is how I sleep at night.
Nowadays, I keep most of my stuff backed up locally on external hard-drives, but also started using dropbox recently for smallish set of files (sharing, mostly, but serves as a backup of sorts as well).
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?
It does get to be too painful sometimes.
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?