What level of off-site-ness do you want to protect against? Your house
burning down, or the whole neighborhood being hit by a plane or a flood??
If only(!) the former, maybe your neighbor could host a wifi network drive
and you could backup a few tens of meters away? (And of you can do the same
for him)
(I can see/sniff 2 other wifi networks from my home)
Jez
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:45 PM, James R <londonjames@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hopefully something like Apple's time machine would allow for old
> enough copies to avoid situations like that. But at what size level of
> files to be backed up does the thing become so slow as to unworkable?
> With my mediocre 2Mb download and 256k upload it seems a daunting task
> to upload my 670Gb of data on my backup drive. I make that 726 hours
> to upload or about 30 days. And that's without any network slowdown.
> Carbonyte's 15 day trial wouldn't be much use.
>
> It's great news that the service exists though. I currently take my
> 1Tb backup hard drive with me when I leave home for any significant
> time (it went for a nice two week holiday in Brittany this summer),
> but I still need something off-site.
>
> James
>
>
>
> On 18 Sep 2008, at 21:14, James Howe wrote:
>
> >
> > I have a yearly subscription for Mozy and I use it to create an off-
> > site
> > backup of my digital negatives and other key files. It does have the
> > drawback of taking a long time to upload (sometimes days at 1/mbs)
> > but I
> > feel better having images stored off site. I also have a couple of
> > local
> > backups, one on a RAID 1 drive so Mozy is really only likely to be
> > used in a
> > rare circumstance.
> >
> > That being said, even the best laid plans can mess you up. I've
> > been using
> > some auto-sync software to keep my local backup drives in sync.
> > Ultimately
> > Mozy gets data from one of my local drives. However, I made the
> > mistake of
> > deleting some files that I didn't really mean to, and I didn't
> > realize it
> > until a few weeks later. By that time, my file syncing had deleted
> > the
> > files from the local drive, and Mozy had deleted them from their
> > site and I
> > couldn't go back far enough on Mozy to find a backup where the files
> > existed. 200 digital images gone like that due to my stupidity.
> > All I have
> > left are some thumbnails generated by Lightroom.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Is anybody using Carbonite to back up their files? If so, is this a
> >> reasonable alternative to owning a bunch of external hard drives?
> >> $50 a
> >> year seems
> >> like a reasonable price. Bill Barber
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > James Howe
> >
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