ISP Special Data BackUp Offer

Samanthas_2

ISP is starting to promote Data Back Up Services for £48.00UK Sterling a year £4.00
per month they are advertising it for your Mp3s and jpg pictures you could not afford to lose?

Pros/Cons

I guess it would ages at the uplink speeds I have

Samantha

Jakg

For how much data storage?

If Fire/Theft isn't an issue you could buy an external HDD for £50...

Cat695

erm you could just store stuff in your email!!! and its free

Conor_3

Microsoft do Live Skydrive, Googles' Gmail has 3rd party apps to allow it to be used as a hard drive. There's many others too. All are free.

anniesecurb

Waste of money in my opinion plus your files may become available to third parties.:eek:

Much better to use DVD's either RW or R along with a copy of Nero so you can easily multisession them:j

Samanthas_2

Jakg wrote: »

For how much data storage?

If Fire/Theft isn't an issue you could buy an external HDD for £50...

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Sorry got it wrong its more expensive ISP Offering Unlimited Backup £8:00 a Month thats £60:00 a year
you must have a 192 kilobit uplink minimum and to leave your PC on overnight

"this will take a number of days to do this depending on amount of data uploaded
Samantha

alanclarke

www.humyo.com is an online storage site, you get 10GB for free or you can upgrade to Premium service, see web site for price and details. I have very slow broadband so I use this for critical files and for other stuff I use an external drive.

I zip files with a password for extra security plus it makes uploads quicker, 7-zip is free and has 7z format which is more compressed than standard zip - www.7-zip.org

Samanthas_2

alanclarke wrote: »

www.humyo.com is an online storage site, you get 10GB for free or you can upgrade to Premium service, see web site for price and details. I have very slow broadband so I use this for critical files and for other stuff I use an external drive.

I zip files with a password for extra security plus it makes uploads quicker, 7-zip is free and has 7z format which is more compressed than standard zip - www.7-zip.org

The 286 bit encrption sounds impressive the former Bank Of England Vaults sounds like a marketing stunt:)

Samantha

Nilrem

The problem I can see with the online backups is that if, like me you've got a lot of stuff to be included in the backup you're going to need multiple days to do it - my routine backups include about 5gb of "my docs" about 4gb of "my pics", and about 6gb of pics from my digital camera.
So even just doing differential backups (where you do the initial full backup, and then only backup files that have changed/have been added) is going to require a lot of time to do.

My preferred method of backing up requires either DVDR's, and about an hour a time (about 8 minutes to burn and verify each disc - always verify*), a second internal hard drive (fastest), or an external hard drive.

DVDR's take the longest and require the most intervention, you have to feed/tell it what to burn on each one and lable them, but most reliable in the mid-long term (no parts to go wrong)

Second internal drive - fastest, but can be affected by either drive failure or if the PC dies (a blown PSU might take all the drives iout).

External drive - almost as fast as internal, but as long as it's turned off and unplugged you only have to worry about normal drive failure on it (and it's unlikely you'll get both it and your main drive failing at once).

I'm currently thinking about buying some 16gb USB sticks for my data, so that I can use them instead of DVD's for my regular backups (I currently backup my data to secondary drives every 2 weeks or so, and to DVDR about once a month).



*I've had problems in the past with burners reporting a disc burned fine, but not being able to read to afterwards

HoofeHearted

Nilrem wrote: »

*I've had problems in the past with burners reporting a disc burned fine, but not being able to read to afterwards

For critical data, I always use the "verify after writing" option to make sure that the data has been written correctly.

spud17

Sorry got it wrong its more expensive ISP Offering Unlimited Backup £8:00 a Month thats £60:00 a year

No! That's £96 a year, so even worse.