I need to back up my computer to an off-site storage place online. I have lots of genealogy files. Any suggestions for reliable places that don't charge much?
Thanks, Leon and Jimeez. I will check on it. I've got about 1 GB that is just genealogy right now. More text files are coming later plus photos.
I would be very careful with services also used by those that use it for **cough** sharing. Would hate to see someone unable to obtain legitimate backups if the servers were seized by the Feds.
Are Mozy and Dropbox used for sharing? Wait a minute. That's what Connie and I used on the DNA project when we were still administrators. Some of the folks didn't have Excel, so that was our way of getting around it. Okay, I gather Carbonite isn't into that? I have over 4G of other files to back up in addition to the genealogy, so I'll stick with them. Right now, I'm using their free trial, and it is in the process of backing things up.
Not sure about Mozy, haven't really fiddled with it. Dropbox is very popular. Whether there's shady activity or not, who knows. Haven't really dug into the issue. Carbonite is legit, and I've heard great things about the service. I just prefer to do my own thing and not rely on third party solutions.
I see where you are coming from. Yes, Dropbox is popular, but I was only using it for single Excel charts. I've got over 20 years of research in what I'm loading now. It's just going to be one of my backups. No eggs in one basket. The Feds would be bored to tears with my family tree stuff, LOL!
I've used DropBox for several years and have nearly 9 GB of free space (thnx to invites) but it's defenitely not enough. For backup I've tried BackBlaze (nice cheap service but win and mac support only, no linux client) but now I've found something much more cooler than both of them. I recommend you Symform service It has the innovative technology of peer-to-peer storage and contribution (yup, I know that it has already been implemented in Vuala but it was sux and now that option in Vuala is closed) So, if you participate in storage contribution and share some space of your hard-drive to other symform users you will get up to 150 Gb of cloud data storage for free)) Moreover, there is a native support of Symform service in QNAP NAS SOHO devices, I've bought one of them and use it for syncing and storage contribution during a couple of weeks. Now I've got aprx. 40 Gb of free cloud storage space in Symform and can use it both for backup both for syncing.
Good backup is geographically spread backup (it repeated many times in several CISSP exam domains ) So I don't know the sensivity of your data but if it's really important, your own backup solution have to be deployed in several sites at least (CD, strimmer or even RAID of external hard-drives is not enough). Good backup solution also needs to be fully-automated (with incremental backup) and must have the notificational state control (or probably watchdog). IMHO it's too much for IT-work. I'm lazy, I would prefere to use third service storage solution, at least as backend (Amazon S3, GoDaddy storage service or Symform). Btw, Amazon S3 actually is backend for Dropbox. Last option,Symform IMHO is the best, because it gives a lot of space for free. If you are not experienced in IT, probably the simplest way is to buy QNAP device, go to its web-interace and connect it to Symform service.
