Comments on: Online Backup Solutions

By: teddy

teddy — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:20:55 +0000

Maybe this online storage comparison chart it could be useful for someone…
http://lifehacker.com/5064688/online-storage-feature+by+feature-comparison-chart
best regards
guido

By: Peter Fellows

Peter Fellows — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:50:15 +0000

These days with outages in Cloud Storage providers you need a backup of your backup ! I use Amazon S3 because it is cheap. For example you can get 4 GB per month for $0.60 compared i.e. $0.15 per GigaByte. However it is not very user friendly. I use this with a service provided by smestorage.com that allows me to use my Amazon S3 account with something they call OpenS3. This enables me to get a great web interface for working with my files as well as plug-ins to MS Office / Open Office, Windows Explorer, iPhone access etc – they also allow you to backup your files to GMail by using GMail as a backup storage cloud – for free ! Nice

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:36:46 +0000

I use Carbonite. There is a small recurring fee, although I don’t remember how much it is. I love it. It quietly keeps all my files backed up. I’ve even had to use it once when an important file was lost. I just found it again on Carbonite and downloaded it. The only down side, and I assume all such services suffer from this, was the time it took to accomplish the initial upload of data. It was literally days for it to complete, but did not degrade my system in the process.

By: Marsha B

Marsha B — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:38:41 +0000

I wanted to add another great product out there that has not received a lot of attention. Backupmax online backup services. I have been using this instead of some of the other larger backup companies and i have to say that this is just a great product. The software works without a hitch, the customer service is just that. Customer Service and support is very quick. Same price as the more recognized brands out there, with *plenty* more RELEVANT features
Worth a try!
https://www.backupmax.com/

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:11:11 +0000

Great post. If you are still interested in trying out ElephantDrive as mentioned above, we would be happy to provide a promotional code. Just shoot a note to promos@elephantdrive.com and mention this post (or write me directly at the email included in the comment) and we’ll get you up and running fast!