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Just a friendly warning about Mozy.com and Carbonite ...

They reserve the right to SPAM you if you sign up for their service.  If you blacklist the SPAM from them, you will lose access to your data.

You get what you pay for ...

Remember, read the fine print! 

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Scott Watson.::.

Acme Data Online Backup Service     

Don`t Wait Until It Is Too Late To Recover Your Data

Boldprint,

It sounds like you aren`t looking for a backup system, but a storage system for your projects.

Have you looked into any of the NAS devices that are out there?  You can get 1 terrabyte (1000 gigabytes) for about $350.

 

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Scott Watson.::.

Acme Data Online Backup Service     

Don`t Wait Until It Is Too Late To Recover Your Data

Now THAT`s interesting to know, and I wonder if I`d have found out about it other than through Startup Nation! Very cool...! I guess I do keep forgetting that you "get what you pay for." :-)

Craig -

The devil is in the details.  It is all there in the fine print.

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Scott Watson.::.

Acme Data Online Backup Service     

Don`t Wait Until It Is Too Late To Recover Your Data

I am part owner in a small business and our biggest concern with back up`s is getting them off site daily. We have a 20 gig or so database and five separate home folder stored on a single hard drive on a server. The home folders contain every thing from e-mail to product pictures to word docs, so I`m looking at close to 40 gigs.. Backing them up to a separate drive and taking them home is not an option because I would never get home before 10pm. The reason we want them off site is because of theft. We have been broken into twice in two years.

Now the kicker is we run a Mac network (OS X server w/ mini`s as workstations), so my software options are narrow. We don`t have a lot of money to pay out monthly for on-line storage. So what do I do? I have set up an FTP server at my home, but back up`s are not usually successful.


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Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
It could be a lama, and they spit!

Has anyone looked at IIC Internet Online Storage Solutions for backup?

http://www.onlinestoragesolution.com/

Jill
 
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Jill Ronsley
SUN Editing & Book Design
www.suneditwrite.com



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Jill Ronsley
SUN Editing & Book Design
Book Design, Typesetting & Cover Design
Editing & Writing Services
For nonfiction, fiction, manuals, children`s books, screenplays, poetry, etc.
www.SunEditWrite.com

If you buy two SATA IDE drives 300GB etc, an external enclosure for one of the drives, a PCI bus card with an external SATA port to plug the external drive to, and disk cloning software like ACRONIS, you can do a clone of your hard drive during lunch and at the end of the day, and it takes about 20 minutes. I`ve done this for myself and several vendors and they love it. If your main hard drive crashes, you can swap the backup drive in, and be up in 5 minutes, or restore the backup to a new drive in 20 minutes. It`s amazing.

I currently use Iron Mountain Connected Online Data Backup which runs a backup to online storage over the Internet, encrypts and compresses it before transmitting, etc, and costs me about $14.95 a month, which is nothing to pay for piece of mind. I`ve been using this since 2003, and it was the best thing I found out there at the time. Their tech support sucks, but I am entrenched and don`t feel like switching (barrier to competition - I`m too busy to research and find another, and then uninstall, install something new, test it, verify it, use it, etc...)

There is a difference between backups, which are temporary copies of current files in use, and archives, which are permanent copies of old projects that you want to move off everyday storage to a long-term backup medium, such as DVDs.

Preferably backing up data or storage is a great option to take . It is wiser and gives you security over data and this has also constitutes on wider range that storage instantly needs backup system.

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