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landenpc
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 15, 2012 @ 10:49a
Haven't used it myself, but Crashplan looks nice and prices seem to be among the lowest for online backup.
Connman
Genius billionaire playboy philanthropist
posted: Jun. 15, 2012 @ 11:29a
The only issue I've run in to with Crashplan is that it doesn't seem to understand the difference between being "unable to reach any backup destinations" and the computer not having any changes in it's data. I know for a fact that CP is running and kicks off the backup daily, but without changing anything on the PC (it's a secondary PC), CP will complain as above. Very annoying. I suspect it's just the tip of the iceberg, though.
If it was me, even if I backup up online (and encrypt it, of course), I'd still make a local copy as well.
savinem
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 15, 2012 @ 11:57a
landenpc said: Haven't used it myself, but Crashplan looks nice and prices seem to be among the lowest for online backup.
Connman said: If it was me, even if I backup up online (and encrypt it, of course), I'd still make a local copy as well.
Thanks for the replies and suggestion, I will check it out. Have you tried any other services before this one? Also why would you recommend encrypting the data first, would they have access to my data?
Techsaver
New Member
posted: Jun. 18, 2012 @ 12:10p
Do you know how much you'll be backing up?
stonesnake
New Member
posted: Jun. 18, 2012 @ 3:10p
I have been happy with Carbonite. Have had to do complete restores twice and they both went smoothly.
forbin4040
Senior Member - 6K
posted: Jun. 18, 2012 @ 3:35p
2nd for Carbonite, I haven't had to do a restore yet but they were flawless in the backup.
savinem
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 19, 2012 @ 11:49a
Techsaver said: Do you know how much you'll be backing up?
The main backup I want to do is of my desktop, around 1tb on there, and I've also got a few family laptops I'd like to backup as well.
I've check both sites, so I'd need the Family Unlimited plan on one, which will be $119.99 a year. But on the other, each of the plans are priced per computer which will work out more expensive. Was hoping for a cheaper solution...
landenpc
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 19, 2012 @ 2:46p
savinem said: The main backup I want to do is of my desktop, around 1tb on there, and I've also got a few family laptops I'd like to backup as well.
Just be aware that any online backup service is going to take a LONG time for the intial backup unless you have some crazy >=30MB upload speed. I believe some services (including crashplan) have an option to provide a seed Hard drive for the initial backup. Pretty sure you have to buy the drive from them though.
One other cool option with crashplan is that you can backup to other computers running crashplan. You'd have to spend a few bucks upfront for backup drives, but then you could have a remote backup with no monthly fees. Put one drive at another family members location and one drive at your location then everybody gets offsite backup for just the upfront price of the drives with no recurring cost.
dishdude
Broke Member
posted: Jun. 19, 2012 @ 3:12p
Google Drive
savinem
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 20, 2012 @ 3:35p
landenpc said: Just be aware that any online backup service is going to take a LONG time for the intial backup unless you have some crazy >=30MB upload speed. I believe some services (including crashplan) have an option to provide a seed Hard drive for the initial backup. Pretty sure you have to buy the drive from them though.
One other cool option with crashplan is that you can backup to other computers running crashplan. You'd have to spend a few bucks upfront for backup drives, but then you could have a remote backup with no monthly fees. Put one drive at another family members location and one drive at your location then everybody gets offsite backup for just the upfront price of the drives with no recurring cost.
Oh I wasn't aware of that, I'll look into that some more than thanks.
dishdude said: Google Drive
I can only find info about being able to upgrade to 25gb on their site?
Edit: Found it! $49.99 per month for 1tb of data, next above that is $99.99 for 2tb.
savinem
Addicted Member
posted: Jun. 20, 2012 @ 3:42p
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I'm going to look into them some more and hopefully be backing my data up soon
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