[Hidden-tech] Online Backup Revisited

[Jeff Rutherford]

I've been considering Crash Plan as well. They received top marks from Macworld.

Is anyone running two different online backup systems? Call me paranoid, but I'm considering it.

Jeff

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On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Frank Aronson wrote:

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> Some discussions have been focusing on online backup systems recently with the value of Trend Micro’s system being touted.  For a limited time, as a loss leader, they offered unlimited online backup for $30, which moved to $60 shortly thereafter, as they said it would.  However, when looking at this system yesterday, they’ve moved to a less attractive three tiered system:
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> While there are some attractive features of this system, I would have to say that it gets pretty pricey on a per-machine basis.  This makes Carbonite a whole lot more attractive at $55 per year for unlimited backups.  Of course a backup is only as good as its restore, so you have to keep an eye on whatever you wind up doing (for the record, I had my laptop stolen a couple of years ago and was able to recover the whole thing via Carbonite).
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> I have also found another online backup system that I’m running on trial right now called CrashPlan that offers both a limited free service (it looks as though it’s mostly a local backup) as well as both a limited (10GB for $25) and an  unlimited paid service ($50 per year).  Besides some interesting features (backing up to a friend’s offsite computer, for example), they also offer an unlimited multiple machine subscription (between 2 to 10 machines) for $120 per year.  This is very attractive for anyone with three or more machines that they want to back up.
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> I just thought I’d follow up with this, as it’s been a “hot topic” for some time now.
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