On line back up

scrungebucket

Hi

I would like the ability of automatically backing up my computer, my Documents folder ever hour or so to an online sstorage facility incase my computer crashes? Is there such a thing thats free?

Ta

evilgoose

I doubt that there would be many free providers of such a service - i'd be interested to hear if i'm going to be proved wrong!

I seem to recal some adverts alittle while ago on TV about a service BT have for their ISP customers - though I believe there was a charge for that.

I've had a few HDD's fail on me, each time I didnt have complete backups so lost work. So I invested in two identical HDD's which I have set up in a mirrored config and transfered my My Documents onto them.

(assuming that there isnt a free online storage facility) - Another possible solution which may help you would be to buy an external HDD and use the scheduled tasks from within windows to copy any documents you change/create on the external disk every hour. Its quite straight forward to setup. You can use XCOPY command with a /M switch to copy new/changed files.

Fedz

I wouldn't have thought for free as disk space doesn't come free and if you did get it be serverely limited with ads or spyware or something similar ...

The best I've seen (pay for) so far is Servage hosting but, they have a thing called Servage WebDrive included with your hosting and 510GiB storage.

In my experienced opinion Servage are useless at hosting that requires sql ...etc but, are very good at simply storage.

Hope this helps

amcluesent

Mozy gives you 2Gb for free, then it's $4.95/month. I've used it to recover files fine.

robt_2

I have set it up (securely) for free with my own hosting that I already had. Just have it set to once a day though - how many documents do you have for it to need doing every hour?

marksward

quite a few give you free backup if you want less than 1 or 2 GB.

elephantdrive, mozy and others.

I use carbonite as a paid for service.

Toxteth_OGrady

Inbox.com gives you 5GB free.

:cool:

TOG

isofa

BuddyBackup is free.

Reviews of the 6 good ones here: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/148/online-backup-services/products.html

Carbonite is my favourite, although not free.

superscaper

Like others have said. I've used carbonite (paid) and mozy (paid) although I'm not sure you can schedule mozy to backup automatically hourly, maybe daily at best. I currently use Mozy (Carbonite had too many niggles which I don't know if they've fixed, 2 main ones being regular accessing of floppy drive which is irritatingly noisy and no incremental back up of pst/email files so any change in my outlook pst archive files would require a completely new upload of the entire file which is quite large). Maybe one of you who still uses Carbonite can say whether they've fixed these issues or not as I did quite like the interface compared to Mozy and I think carbonite can backup in real time which mozy doesn't (unless you probably fiddle with automatic backup and set idle time to zero or something).

Stompa

www.diino.co.uk

gives you 2GB free, and will allow you to backup as frequently as you want.