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Cloud based backup service
mk162:
I have everything backed up online, we have to.
Doesn't surprise me that something went wrong with our tax dollars. The government is bloated to follow up and won't care if they get what they paid for, it's not their money.
And frankly, better internet won't create jobs here. It will just make it faster and easier to send everything to China. ;D
SkylinePrints:
--- Quote from: ZooCity on July 21, 2011, 08:12:16 PM --- Apparently our tax dollars paid for the upgrade but we were never delivered the goods.
--- End quote ---
Surprised?
I've been using Carbonite for a few years now. It has saved my a** more than once. Works fine for pc backup but the last I checked, it wont read a network drive.
The initial backup takes days. It's a combination of your internet upload speed plus throttling on Carbonite's part to ensure their network doesnt bog down. Once the initial backup is done, it auto synchs files everytime something is changed. I have mine set to only run when the CPU is idle and I'm not working on something.
On site, I have a network server running two 2 terra drives in a RAID configuration. It provides a good onsite solution for backing up but since it's a network drive, i'm still looking around for an offsite automatic solution to back up the server. I take images of the drives once a week on DVD's and take them home but an automatic solution would be better.
mk162:
I am still working on perfecting our backup system here, but carbonite is a life saver, and at $5 a month, it's more than worth it.
squeegee:
I did find this comparison chart, but haven't had time to really go through it. My main hangup with Carbonite was as mentioned, no support for network drives.
I know bandwidth is an issue, but it seems once the intial backup is done, that bandwidth wouldn't be a problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_backup_services
Backing up to external harddrives is time consuming and because of that I don't do it enough.
SkylinePrints:
squeegee,
i just got off the phone with these people.
http://www.ibackup.com/
multiple pcs and NAS drive support. might be the solution. worth checking out i think
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