Best Online Backup Service?

It had to happen sooner or later - my laptop hard drive failed. While I was using an external 500GB drive, this incident opened my eyes.

Suggestions and reasons most appreciated!

CheenaGringo wrote:It had to happen sooner or later - my laptop hard drive failed. While I was using an external 500GB drive, this incident opened my eyes.

Suggestions and reasons most appreciated!

So you were able to save everything?

I am happy with this one.
http://www.carboniteaddon.com/

Thanks Rolly! I am guessing that it is the best known service and I have been researching some of the others.

This is a good article on cloud storage and services :http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/double-the-cloud-power-how-to-sync-files-across-storage-services/

"Is your cloud drive really private? Not according to fine print":

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/your-cloud-drive-really-private-not-according-fine-print-1C8881731

CheenaGringo wrote:"Is your cloud drive really private? Not according to fine print":

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/your-cloud-drive-really-private-not-according-fine-print-1C8881731

So encrypt the drive and don't worry about it anymore. They are not going to unencrypt drive unless you are a bad guy.

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Ack. The Cloud. Engineer-speak for The Internet, or The Network. Cloud services today? At 2 GB free, too small; after that, too expensive. And WAY too slow. They think we all have super-high-speed, even out in the boonies.

I'd rather have my stuff backed up onto an external drive. Quick access. Yes, they can get stolen. But the original stays on my tower, and I have other backups secreted away. Not too many thiefs go for towers. After that, well, the luck of the draw, I guess.

As I stated on other topics, such as the RFID chip thing in the US Passport, I really don't much give a damn about privacy issues but if or when people have expectations because they haven't read the fine print or there wasn't any in the first place? If one was a child porn collector, maybe they would be sick and stupid enough to store info on the cloud?

I've been using SugarSync with good results. There have been occasional problems, but their support is quite good, and I've never lost anything.

Just read a laudable review of SugarSync in MaximumPC, but from the point of view of a replacement for DropBox. However, it does have a monthly fee when you want more than 5Gigs.

China, I've got about 250gb out on Carbonite and it works just fine. Really glad I got it and bought the 3 yr package. Initial load was fine in Dallas, but very slow down here. But once the initial BU is done, the auto BU of changed files is effortless.

Thanks everyone for their comments. I have decided to go with the 3TB external hard drive option.

I clone both of my computers once a week. Backup will not backup your programs, only the data. It's cheaper to just buy the same sized disks and cases and clone the whole thing. I can be back in business within 10 minutes.

I'm just not happy with sending my data to a cloud somewhere and it takes almost as long to backup as to clone.

I use GoodSync to back up my personal stuff: I keep all my personal stuff (photos, documents, scans, etc) on one drive, and backup automagically (with every file change) to a separate drive.

I have a clone of my whole computer, and it was made immediately after Windows 7 was installed with all my favorite programs. I find that cloning any computer after that just carries any problems along with it.

Since I have decided on a 3TB, here is a dumb question: can it be setup for two computers to have separate backup files?

Yes, as long as you can network the two computers together.