May 30, 2008
Online Backup Options 1: Mozy Fails the Test
Computers, New TechnologyI canceled because the Mozy servers were not available for many hours on 05-04-08, and that is not an acceptable situation. No warning, no press release, no explanation. Website down and service entirely unavailable. Amazon S3 and JungleDisk don’t go down. Not ever. If I can’t trust Mozy, I won’t use Mozy.
June 1st, 2008 at 6:53 am
May I be so bold as to perhaps offer an alternative to the aforementioned – disclaiming upfront of course that I am a co-founder. If time and interest still apply, we might ask that you try SpiderOak (spideroak.com). To date, we have not had a problem with uptime and offer a different approach to the traditional online back up companies – providing a central repository for all your data across all of your machines (Mac, Windows, & Linux) with constant access to each from each. Thank you in advance for your time.
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Checked out SpiderOak. Looks like a good service, but is too expensive at $10/month for 10 GB. JungleDiskPlus is $5.10 per month for 20GB on disk and 20GB transfer. I can backup all of my computers and get access to files from anywhere. I’ll stick with Amazon S3.
June 26th, 2008 at 5:38 am
I discovered a Memopal (www.memopal.com) “cutting edge solution for online
backup”
They merged online backup, online storage and file sharing services into one product.
If you try this service you will notice that (contrary to most competitors):
- You can access your files in (true) real time with a web browser
- They really offer 250 GB (some competitors offer a fake unlimited web
space, they say “fair use”)
- You can share a file or many files with the 1-click-share functionality
- Some of your files will be uploaded very very fast (turboupload)
- The service and website are in 10 different languages
I’ve also found two useful guide to online backup on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_backup