Best Online backup service?

[j]

I need to set up an online backup service for a client and have no experience with them. It will just be for a file server that is currently being backed-up onto tape. Their files only total probably under 10GB. Does anyone have any recs?

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Is it an Apple?

 

[finch]

I have a .Mac account with Apple. I'm going to transition to the following very soon, just debating the 500GB or 1TB? Time Capsule

 

[j]

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Is it an Apple?
Ha, yeah right.

I started them on Moxy Pro. It's .50c/GB/month for businesses or $5/unlimited/month for individuals, the client is pretty smart (encryption, idle-only setting, bandwidth throttles, multi admins, etc), and they answered the phone when I called about an install issue. Seems it will work just fine for their purposes.

Edit sorry, MOZY Pro. Whoops: http://www.google.com/search?&q=moxy+pro

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by j

Ha, yeah right..

I know... I'm just trolling for a fight.

 

[academe]

Originally Posted by j

Ha, yeah right.

I started them on Moxy Pro. It's .50c/GB/month for businesses or $5/unlimited/month for individuals, the client is pretty smart (encryption, idle-only setting, bandwidth throttles, multi admins, etc), and they answered the phone when I called about an install issue. Seems it will work just fine for their purposes.

I've been using Mozy for all 3 of our home computers and it works well.

 

[Matt]

SteveB emailed me asking about Carbonite. Ive never used it, so didnt have an answer for him....anyone have any experience?

 

[rnoldh]

Rush Limbaugh endorses Carbonite.

It must be good!

And conservative

 

[JoeWoah]

X-Drive is pretty good and you get 5GB for free... 50GB is free is you have an AOL account (I think they're free these days).

I've used it and a few others, they all worked, but none are all that great.

 

[j]

Originally Posted by m@T

SteveB emailed me asking about Carbonite. Ive never used it, so didnt have an answer for him....anyone have any experience?
All I know about it is that I didn't choose it for some reason. It was in the top 4 that were reviewed as "all good for different purposes/reasons" in the reviews I read though.

 

[Epaulet]

I've used Mozy in the past. It's fairly priced and will also backup external harddrives.

However, I've accumulated so many large files (Canon 5D camera), that the Mozy backups take FOREVER. I'm talking days. So, now I use several redundant Seagate external drives and keep only my most important photos and documents online.

 

[j]

Yeah, the drives are getting so cheap now it's absurd. I just got a 750GB external a month ago or so for $190. Also, check this out:

Thermaltake BlacX SE desktop SATA drive docking station with USB hub - about $45 and then you just buy bare SATA drives and stick them in it. Maybe not the safest esp. considering how cheap real externals are getting (since moving a still-spinning drive wrong can wreck it) but makes it easy to swap through a pile of drives.

 

[grundletaint]

i use mozy and have had great service from them. it's an easy interface to use, too.

 

[FIHTies]

We use Mozy Pro (after a PC meltdown that cost me 2K to retrieve critical data with on track recovery services.).

The downside about external drives is that no matter how cheap they are you still have to do something whether its removing the hard drive of premises or manually starting the backup (even with software its yours headache)and you know how complacent we all get until its too late.

Only thing is that you should check that the backups are being done regularly and exist online.

 

[Xericx]

I tried JungleDisk but it seemed a bit slow to transfer. Good concept, they need to refine. they use Amazon's S3 disk space or whatever...but I thought it was actually part of amazon, which it isn't. www.jungledisk.com