Online Storage

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Be careful with all these free hosts. They're under no contract obligation to compensate you in any way if one day they decide to pull the plug because they aren't making enough cash from it (ads). Your ?? gig of treasured photos with childhood memories etc are gone, just like that, and there's naff all you can do about it.

Unless it's stuff you can afford to lose, you should be backing up locally using a separate hard drive in addition to your main one.

Trader1889

happywarmgun wrote: »

I use 'Carbonite' which remotely mirrors my entire hard-drive. It is something like £42 a year FOR UNLIMITED backup. It has over 150gb of my data (including photo/music/video) securley backed up in the US. When disaster struck last year it saved me from heartbreak. Without a doubt the best 42 quid I ever spent.

It just sits in the background on your PC - you tell it which folders you want to back up (not everyone likes the idea of all their data going to the US - so you could just select your photo folders) and every night it syncs its copies with your copies. You don't have to do anything. A wonderful service that is priced far, far better than anything hosted in the UK.

Hi,

I've been using Mozy free which is very slow, it took 12 hours to restore 500Mb.

How quick is Carbonite? Did you have to restore the whole 150Gb?


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