Recommend an online/off site back up

[Roach-Rampino]

I am looking for a decent place to back up to online/offsite. There seems to be lots of companies out there offering this kind of service.

Can anyone recommend a good one or had a bad experience that they can warn me of?

[gunner]

Is this for personal or business mate? What kind of storage capacity do you need?

[Over Carl]

What sort of volume of data you expecting to hold in total, and how much do you plan to back up and how often? I have an idea that could cost very little if it's not masses.

[Modcoms]

we use gigasoft at work we back up over 150 servers a night all over the county not had one fail yet

[syscon]

I use Mozy, reliable and never had any problems - if you look at them and like it make sure you buy it through the american site as its cheaper.

[liveseytowers]

No one backing up to tape and sending it offsite? We use Iron Mountain to take our tapes offsite. Just got a new LTO4 drive that backs up 1.6TB to one tape which is handy.

[CzarJunkie]

Dropbox offer 2Gb free or you can pay for up to 100Gb. It works well and their mobile apps are decent too. Of course that's not an enterprise solution but if you simply want to backup files for personal use or are happy for an affordable and simple to use commercial solution then it's worth looking at.

[crashtestmac]

I have been using carbonite for a few years and would recommend it.

It is $54 a year for unlimited. If you want i can send you a referral that i think gets you something free or it cheaper....!

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[Roach-Rampino]

Is this for personal or business mate? What kind of storage capacity do you need?

What sort of volume of data you expecting to hold in total, and how much do you plan to back up and how often? I have an idea that could cost very little if it's not masses.

No one backing up to tape and sending it offsite? We use Iron Mountain to take our tapes offsite. Just got a new LTO4 drive that backs up 1.6TB to one tape which is handy.

It's for work data but really just my own work files not the whole company's as that is already done daily to tape and stored off site.

I have a Lacie external hd on my desk which I back up to every day but I was thinking if there was a fire I would be fucked without all that information (2 years worth of sales contacts, details etc which are added to and updated on a daily basis).

Thanks to all as you have given me some options there.

[blaggard]

Dropbox offer 2Gb free or you can pay for up to 100Gb. It works well and their mobile apps are decent too. Of course that's not an enterprise solution but if you simply want to backup files for personal use or are happy for an affordable and simple to use commercial solution then it's worth looking at.

I can second that, I've been using it since dropping mobileme.

[blaggard]

It's for work data but really just my own work files not the whole company's as that is already done daily to tape and stored off site.

I have a Lacie external hd on my desk which I back up to every day but I was thinking if there was a fire I would be fucked without all that information (2 years worth of sales contacts, details etc which are added to and updated on a daily basis).

Thanks to all as you have given me some options there.

Not to mention if/when the drive dies, well worth offline backups of important stuff.

[Freddy]

Dropbox is the probably best bit of software I own because I don't even know it is running. It quietly backs up my drive and stores unlimited revisions in the cloud (Dropbox doesn't add this to overall GB). It doesn't clog up my piss poor upload speed and it syncs with all my computers/iPhone.

One other important thing is that if you re-save a file it doesn't upload the whole thing again, just the small changes within the file.

[Roach-Rampino]

Thanks to all. I have gone for Dropbox. All installed and running now.

It does seem to be slowing things down a little though?

[ZX7R]

Another vote here for Carbonite. Unlimited storage and has been running quietly in the background for almost a year now.

[tombott]

Thanks to all. I have gone for Dropbox. All installed and running now.

It does seem to be slowing things down a little though?

Give it time to do it's initial Sync, and then it should be fine.
I've installed it on over 150 PC at work, and its not hit the bandwidth to much.
If you install to multiple machines with the same account on the same LAN it syncs what it can between the machines, so if one PC updates a file it uploads to the internet then pushes out to the other PC on the LAN.
It's very clever stuff.

[liveseytowers]

Windows live sync works very well also and comes with a 25Gb limit which is handy. Works a bit like Dropbox. Worth looking at.

[Wompastompa]

for a small business i would use a hp media smart server excellent backup very reliable for onsite backup solution

[CzarJunkie]

Windows live sync works very well also and comes with a 25Gb limit which is handy. Works a bit like Dropbox. Worth looking at.

I think the limit in 'the cloud' is 2Gb mate for this. Plus, the last people I'd trust with my data is MS.

[Over Carl]

I've found dropbox works nicely - the other option I was thinking of is getting a draytek 2820 router at home, flash with latest f/w then plug in a usb stick or drive - this can be set up as an ftp server so you can access it anywhere on the net - it's nice to have a static ip for this, but dynamic dns services can be used to get round this.

Total cost would be about £150 for the router, then the storage device of your choice, then all you would need to do is pay your home internet connection.

However, I haven't got round to playing with this feature on the 2820 so can't vouch for it although it should work nice for this kind of thing.