[Hidden-tech] Online Backup Revisited

[Sharon A]

I am also on a 30 day trial of CrashPlan- seems very straightforward ( and I'm not that tech savvy)- and came highly recommended- plus very affordable.  Wish I understood a little more how this all works but I lost alot of data using a portable harddrive ( WD for macs- but an older one because I didn't understand the software well enough)- so I'm hoping this will be enough. Good luck. Sharon

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From: Jeff Rutherford <jeff at jeffrutherford.com>
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Online Backup Revisited
To: "Frank Aronson" <fsaronson at comcast.net>
Cc: "'Hidden-Tech'" <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 2:24 PM

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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:  20GB for $4050GB for $90100GB for $150  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).  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.  I just thought I’d follow up with this, as it’s been a “hot topic” for some time now.  Thanks,Frank  <image003.jpg>When not just ANY geek will do!
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