Off site data storage

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Guys

Sorry to post this in business but I may get better answers here!

I have about 90gb of photo's (and growing) I really don't want to loose. I currently have 3 backup devices at home but thought it might be a good idea to store and back-up to a provider via the net.

Does anybody have any suggestions/costs?

Thanks

Martin

edited to change to 90gb of photos!

Edited by Bernie-the-bolt on Sunday 29th March 23:16

[kryten]

Will take ages to upload 90GB!! Best option I reckon is to get an external HD, copy them to it and leave it at a friend/relative's house

[HRG]

Have a look at Mozy. Yes, it'll take a while to upload but once they are there, they're there. 90GB might be a bit costly though.

[deckster]

HRG said:

Have a look at Mozy. Yes, it'll take a while to upload but once they are there, they're there. 90GB might be a bit costly though.

Mozy's good enough although I definitely notice a slowdown on my lowly Mac Mini when it's running and it also takes 2-3 minutes to decide whether it wants a file or not so even small uploads take longer than you might like. I have 80GB backed up and yet it takes a couple of weeks to get it all uploaded in the first place, after that it just backs up as and when without you having to do anything. It's certainly very easy to use in any case. Mozy's free for the first 2GB, and $4.99/month for unlimited storage. I can't however comment on the most important thing, ie whether you can get your data back, as I've never had to do it in anger The one test I did to retrieve a file worked fine so I have no reason to doubt it though.

There are other online backup services that are supposed to be better, iDrive gets very good writeups, but I paid rashly paid for 2 years of Mozy up front to save a few quid so I've not tried anything else.

[bogie]

becoming more popular now with prosumers for sure - check out a Netgear Readynas box - they have built in "vault" service which is an automated backup to the cloud (secure datacentre - your data is encrypted too)

cant remember how much it costs, but the NAS box itself starts at £200 for a 2 bay jobbie ...I have a 4 bay one that are about £500

basically it will do an automated back up of your local machines, then synch n replicate the date in the cloud overnight/in the background

dunno how much it costs in pounds - its $.50 a gig I think

http://www.readynas.com/?p=1135

[Bernie-the-bolt]

Thanks for your replies and all points taken

I'll have a look at the options and go from there.