Free carbonite style backup?

[comintel]

Quote from Brighton:

I saw New Zealand and thought of Kim Dotcom. Sure enough, that's his company. In the link below, he's the lard ass behind the letter M. Not sure if all his legal troubles are settled.

https://mega.co.nz/#about

Yes, the U.S. is still trying to extradite him but it is tied up in the courts indefinitely amid numerous suits and countersuits for prosecutorial misconduct etc. in both countries. He is not charged with any offence in NZ. It will be a long time before he is extradited, if ever.

Meanwhile he has started his new Mega "Cloud" company which is heavily lawyered and very unlikely to run afoul of any law. After all, he is out on extradition bail still so he has to be pretty cautious.

I think that it is a good place to store data, say as a secondary backup outside the U.S. for diversification of risk, because those servers are under NZ law and heavily fortified in every way, including extensive legal backstop.

Not to mention it is the cheapest!

I think that there are probably commercially available backup programs, some perhaps already mentioned in this thread, that can do automated regular backups to any Cloud storage, including Mega. I have to look into it.

 

[Brighton]

Thanks for the info. That's a lot of storage for free. I wonder how/when they plan to make money from it.

Box.net is one more option. 5 GB free, lots of corporate customers, in business since 2006. It's just a place to store and share files, though. To my knowledge they don't offer automatic back-up or mirror image applications.

 

[dandxg]

I use google drive 5 gbs for free.

 

[taclander]

Quote from ofthomas:

hmmm... I dont think my upbringing has anything to do... there is such a concept of value... data is precious ... most of it cant be recreated... so I am not about to "cheap out" and save $100/year or even $50 and risk losing my data... but to each its own... I guess I am happy pissing away $$$ while I ensure my data is safe... my data while traveling does not fit on 7GB, so I am happy to pay m$ actual money to get more space... and acronis is the best software out there without going to enterprise class for my laptop... nothing wrong with free software, but my time is worth more than the $50 I would have spent on it if I have to recover down the road...

Hmm, maybe you didn't get what I typed. I do pay for external drives to back up my computers, and I use the free offering from a site that also also offers larger space for pay. In other words Skydrive offers me the same options and utility for free that it would offer if I paid for more, which I don't need.
I also am not a fan of putting to much personal or secure information with yet another company that claims they are secure. Hackers will get into all these places if they chose.
I take a main external drive and once a month get it from our safe deposit box, back up 3 computers with complete new back ups and then bring it back to the bank. I also have 2 drives at home doing backups. So I guess I am not cheaping out. Don't take my comment personally, I was just using a phrase, but was not meant as an attack if you took it that way.