[Hidden-tech] Best online backup

[Rich]

What you are referring to is that JungleDisk provides a convenient 
end-user interface to a cloud system.
Their web pages mention Amazon S3 and Rackspace cloud offerings, which 
are in various locations.
RS has mostly sites in TX and Amazon has 2 main zones, which I believe 
are east coast and west coast.

On any cloud based offering, the reliability is that of the underlying 
cloud and how the interface layer adds redundancy,
since both Amazon and RS have had failures.  They are more reliable than 
a regular hosting company, but still not
perfect.  Using a cloud system, puts less burden on the backup companies 
to develop it's own servers and probably
will lead to lower cost offerings for backups.

Rich

Andrew Bellak wrote:
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>  Hey Dan,
>
> I learned about JungleDisk from an HT discussion last year.  It's a 
> company that gains one access to a division of Amazon.  I believe the 
> Amazon servers are located in the US if that's a concern.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andrew 
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> On 06/20/2009, 16:38, Dan Green (dan at thegreeninternetgroup.com) wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I want to switch desktop back up systems
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> and figured I’d see what advice HT’ers have.
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> Is anyone using Mozy or Carbonite?  
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> Carbonite is $54.95 a year for unlimited
> storage.  Mozy charges 3.95 plus .50 per GB each month so either way price
> isn’t a huge deal.
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> I had been using Norton 360 but the
> subscription finally expired.  Every computer guy I mentioned 360 to said
> get rid of it.  But for over ten years computer guys have been telling 
> me whatever
> I’m doing is wrong.  They’re probably right.
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> I need simple backup and restore plus reliability
> and I don’t want it to slow down my computer(s).  Don’t know
> what other considerations are important.
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> Thanks,
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> Dan
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