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Low Cost Online Backup

Patrick_Harvey
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Don't know if I'm posting this in the right place as I'm fairly new to forums - sorry if it's wrong.
I saved money on online backup by getting 15% discount using the link below and saved more than the £5 from cashback sites.
My son's at university and I was worried he might lose all his work and photos if his laptop was stolen (several houses in his street have been burgled). I thought I'd get him online backup and found a UK company that does it for £6.79 a month for 20gb of data using this link:
http://www.zuumedia.com/friendsandfamily
All I can say is they were very helpful setting it up and my son says it backs up automatically every week or so.
Hope this helps others.
I saved money on online backup by getting 15% discount using the link below and saved more than the £5 from cashback sites.
My son's at university and I was worried he might lose all his work and photos if his laptop was stolen (several houses in his street have been burgled). I thought I'd get him online backup and found a UK company that does it for £6.79 a month for 20gb of data using this link:
http://www.zuumedia.com/friendsandfamily
All I can say is they were very helpful setting it up and my son says it backs up automatically every week or so.
Hope this helps others.
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I currently use Mozy and have used Carbonite in the past and I believe they're both (Mozy certainly is at $4.95/about £2.50 per month) much cheaper and offer unlimited data backup. And you can set it to back up as often as you want to. Mozy backs up automatically daily on mine. Although I can click on it to back up whenever I feel like it."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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I looked at one or two others but this one is based in the UK and appeared to me to be the most secure. They can't see or access my son's data - only he can. And it felt more secure that his data was held in the UK.
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Patrick_Harvey wrote: »I looked at one or two others but this one is based in the UK and appeared to me to be the most secure. They can't see or access my son's data - only he can. And it felt more secure that his data was held in the UK.
I guess that's a personal preference thing, I don't think there's any real practical difference in security. Most online backup companies encrypt the data before receiving it on their servers including the two I mentioned. But anyone can use Truecrypt etc to encrypt their data before transmission anyway.
Actually thinking about it probably the only difference really between USA and UK is that in the UK you have to give your encryption key when asked by the authorities, in the USA you don't."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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I agree with superscaper and second Mozy.
I have it set up on many PCs using the free account option that gives you 2GB. What I find very useful with Mozy, is that it has a "set and forget" approach where you can schedule it to run at specific dates/times or simply automatic in the background at specific intervals. The good thing is that it can still backup files that are changing i.e., it will backup a Word document if you're working on it whilst the backup is occurring. Not all backup solutions can do this.
The only problem with Mozy, is that it is not a "true archival backup" as some other options out there are i.e., if you delete a file from a folder on your PC, that deletion will be mirrored on Mozy's servers. It does keep versions of the backup dating back 30 days which means if you accidentally delete a file, you have a 30-day window to get it back from Mozy - after that - its gone.
If you're very concerned about other people accessing your personal data (I wouldn't trust this company any more than Mozy to be honest), you can obviously follow superscapers advice and use a personal encryption key or a trucrypt volume. An even more secure option would be for your son to backup his laptop to a PC/server in your house. Free software that does this is here http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html but you'd need to setup an S/FTP server and have it on in your house for him to backup to.0 -
markchadwick wrote: »An even more secure option would be for your son to backup his laptop to a PC/server in your house. Free software that does this is here http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html but you'd need to setup an S/FTP server and have it on in your house for him to backup to.
Good point, I may add that recommendation to the backup sticky.
Also another remote backup that is often overlooked is simply storing CD/DVD at another location, i.e. leave this weeks burned backup at Granny's house etc. If you post it home (encrypted) that's probably even cheaper overall. Or store in a friend's house locally and what's the chances both houses are burgled at the same time? When I was last at Uni I quite frequently left a backup in my office as well as the house. I know undergrads don't get offices but there's more to remote backup than just online solutions."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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What about BuddyBackup? I've never used it but could be an option for free......
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i have to back up work data (i work for myself)
do these systems syncronise between the remote back up and your PC, or just copy the entire contents of specific folders when you set it up?
does the backing up process cause much disruption to your PC while it does it?
have been copying to CD, then switched to an external drive, but I am now about 4GB so looking for the best alternative for quite a lot of data which needs to be backed up every couple of days.0 -
Very similar discussion 2 days ago with lots more links and advice: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=6857950
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The reason I chose ZuuBackup for my son's laptop is that it does it automatically at regular scheduled intervals. It was a case of knowing his data wouldn't get backed up if he had to do it himself. I think it only backs up files that have changed since the last time.0
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Patrick_Harvey wrote: »The reason I chose ZuuBackup for my son's laptop is that it does it automatically at regular scheduled intervals. It was a case of knowing his data wouldn't get backed up if he had to do it himself. I think it only backs up files that have changed since the last time.
I think they all do that. Carbonite and Mozy do anyway. Mine's set to backup automatically when my pc is idle but there's various settings you can do including scheduled daily to weekly backups and it only uploads the new and changed files and in the case of large email files (i.e. Outlook pst files) it only uploads the changes to the file rather than the whole file each time."She is quite the oddball. Did you notice how she didn't even get excited when she saw this original ZX-81?"
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