Mozy vs Carbonite

Quote from FutsTrader111:

You have to be a complete idiot to store your files on a 3rd party website. I-D-I-O-T.

Buy a 1TB external drive at less than $100.
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afraid they'll find your midget porn collection?
 
I have restored files using Mozy. It was easy and fast enough. Don't rely on external hard drives if you value your data!!! Using an external hard drive is far better than having no backup, but don't rely on them exclusively.

Regards,

James
 
Used Mozy for over a year. Cheap, runs seamlessly in the background. Restored various files a few times without problems.

If you worry about storing data on other peoples remote servers the future's not looking good. I just keep my bank stuff encrypted but am not paranoid about other data. If my house burns down the advantages totally outweigh the risks of offsite storage.
 
Quote from jalsck:

Don't rely on external hard drives if you value your data!!! Using an external hard drive is far better than having no backup, but don't rely on them exclusively.
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I second this. My Verbatim-branded hard drive died yesterday after only 5 months in use. Given the power indicator doesn't light up I suspect it's power supply issue. Luckily I used it to back up my TV recorder box and not any important data.

I also know people who unplugged an external hard drive while the computer was writing on it and with a lot of trouble could restore only a fraction of the drive content.
 
Quote from pspr:

I have a problem allowing everything on my computer to be backed up on-line. I don't trust the encryption, I don't trust the backup engineers, I just don't trust my valuable data with other people I don't know.

I just use an external USB hard drive (500 GB for around $100) or a USB flash drive (128 GB for about $100) to do my backups. You can use a software called Second Copy http://www.centered.com/ that does the same job as Carbonite for $30.

If you are really paranoid, use two backup hard drives and switch them periodically. Keep the one switched out at a different location in case of fire.
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If you have this fear (as do I) you could try truecrypt and create a file container and back that up.
 
Quote from pspr:

I have a problem allowing everything on my computer to be backed up on-line. I don't trust the encryption, I don't trust the backup engineers, I just don't trust my valuable data with other people I don't know.

I just use an external USB hard drive (500 GB for around $100) or a USB flash drive (128 GB for about $100) to do my backups. You can use a software called Second Copy http://www.centered.com/ that does the same job as Carbonite for $30.

If you are really paranoid, use two backup hard drives and switch them periodically. Keep the one switched out at a different location in case of fire.
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Thanks for the info. Great!
 
Also check out JungleDisk. It can use either rackspace or Amazon S3 which gives fast access times. You pay very small fees per GB stored/transferred but for me it is worth it because they aren't overselling bandwidth and you get good speeds.
 
Quote from jalsck:

I have restored files using Mozy. It was easy and fast enough. Don't rely on external hard drives if you value your data!!! Using an external hard drive is far better than having no backup, but don't rely on them exclusively.

Regards,

James
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True... my hard drive went a few times on my hp and one time I found that my external hard drive wasnt working either... it seemed like the it's software running it crapped out... not sure.. Got my data back but it cost me like 400 or 500 hundred at my local tech..lol

Now I have mozy and a toshiba external that gets its power from the pc with no software that "runs it" so Im double protected...
 
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