Ok gotcha, sorry man, didn't realize.
With all your posts about scrimping, saving, shaving a buck here and there, I just assumed you operated out of your closet...
Carbonite FTW, yes.
home/office computer backups
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Ok gotcha, sorry man, didn't realize.
With all your posts about scrimping, saving, shaving a buck here and there, I just assumed you operated out of your closet...
Carbonite FTW, yes.
I recently bought a 1TB Seagate Freeagent External Drive @ [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-FreeAgent-Desktop-External-ST310005FDA2E1-RK/dp/B001FWEETK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1274150885&sr=1-1/"]Amazon[/ame]. The thing is idiot proof (good for me). It automatically does a backup whenever you schedule it to do so. For around a hundred bucks you can't beat it.
Resurrecting this thread to see if anyone has anymore Mozy/Carbonite reviews.
I'm thinking about going the online backup route to go along with my own backups that I already take.
I'm thinking about going the online backup route to go along with my own backups that I already take.
Last fall I looked into Mozy and Backblaze (mostly because of their write-up about how they build their storage setups: Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog) but I eventually settled on Jungledisk for home and work backups.
JD has three "modes" which I'm sure other places support, but I found they were particularly slick on JD when I was researching last year.
1. Incremental, Automated Backups. Self-explanatory, but you set the time and it does a full backup of whatever you choose (whole disk, or just the dynamic stuff like Program Files and Documents).
2. Sync Folders. You can select folders to sync between computers. I sync my active projects between my desktop and laptop so I always have latest for web files.
3. Auto-versioning and Web-access. You can log in to a web-interface to download backups from any of your computers or sync folders. They also store a certain amount of versions. Saved my ass last month when I overwrote a big SENuke profile by accident. Just logged in and grabbed the version from that morning's push to overwrite my stupidity.
JD has three "modes" which I'm sure other places support, but I found they were particularly slick on JD when I was researching last year.
1. Incremental, Automated Backups. Self-explanatory, but you set the time and it does a full backup of whatever you choose (whole disk, or just the dynamic stuff like Program Files and Documents).
2. Sync Folders. You can select folders to sync between computers. I sync my active projects between my desktop and laptop so I always have latest for web files.
3. Auto-versioning and Web-access. You can log in to a web-interface to download backups from any of your computers or sync folders. They also store a certain amount of versions. Saved my ass last month when I overwrote a big SENuke profile by accident. Just logged in and grabbed the version from that morning's push to overwrite my stupidity.
dropbox is also much cheaper than a fireproof safe, which can run into big bucks for a good one.
I make manual images of my entire computer using Acronis True Image and store the most recent copy on an external server, and the latest three copies of the disk images on an external drive locally.
My years of being lead tech at a computer repair shop have made me proactive about data loss.
My years of being lead tech at a computer repair shop have made me proactive about data loss.
I actually had a external HD fail on me one time and could not recover the data from it. I lost the data I had been backing up on it and within 1 week my laptop ( what I was backing up ) was stolen. All that data was gone and I had nothing to recover with.
With that ( and I know its rare/extreme case ), I actually use a few methods to backing up now. Right now I'm:
1. Backing up the most used/important files with dropbox
2. Doing a daily backup of all files to an external 2TB HD
3. Putting a copy of #2 and #1 on a desktop that ONLY is used for backups and nothing else and then this data gets IMG'd and sent to a cloud server.
I've got several laptops and desktops now ( all for diff uses ) and they all go thru the steps above. In case of fire, theft, failure, or just about anything.. I should be good to go.
With that ( and I know its rare/extreme case ), I actually use a few methods to backing up now. Right now I'm:
1. Backing up the most used/important files with dropbox
2. Doing a daily backup of all files to an external 2TB HD
3. Putting a copy of #2 and #1 on a desktop that ONLY is used for backups and nothing else and then this data gets IMG'd and sent to a cloud server.
I've got several laptops and desktops now ( all for diff uses ) and they all go thru the steps above. In case of fire, theft, failure, or just about anything.. I should be good to go.