[Hidden-tech] Best online backup

[Frank Aronson]

I know that Carbonite and most likely Mozy (and in all likelihood all other
serious contenders) offer robust security and encryption (see Carbonite's
Blog<http://www.carbonite.com/blog/post/2008/06/Carbonite-Data-Center-Security,-Encryption-and-Redundancy.aspx>).
 I guess the trade-off is how secure is your office or home vs. online.  I
have a client who decided that it was more secure, convenient and
inexpensive to drag-and-drop files to an unsecured flash drive rather than
to go to an online backup.  I begged to differ, but they're the client.
I trust them at this point, in spite of early queasiness.

Frank Aronson

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Rich <rich at on-the-net.com> wrote:

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> 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
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> Andrew Bellak wrote:
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>>  Hey Dan,
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>> 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,
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>> 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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