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Online Backup Solution

Discussion in 'Tilted Gear' started by Smackre, Aug 22, 2012.

  1. Smackre

    Smackre Vertical

    Location:
    Ghutt, Ohio
    I am looking for a good online backup solution. To backup 17gigs of data from work. Recently one of my customer burned to the ground and they lost everything. So that got me thinking that having a local backup is not enough.

    I also want to be able to share a folder with accountant. Right now we backup the data and take it to them. But I would like them to be able to just login and download the data once a month without needing much computer knowledge.
     
    Smackre, Aug 22, 2012
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  2. Lordeden

    Lordeden Part of the Problem

    Location:
    Redneckhell, NC
    The data you are backing up (17gig), will you need to access this data once it's backuped (Besides for a restore of data in the case of failure)? Amazon just put this out, Amazon Glacier that does pennies for GBs.

    For the accountant thing, what about Google Drive? It's free for 5gb and works just like dropbox. Sync a folder on his HD to the cloud and have it sync that same folder on your pc, Might be a simple way to do this and the accountant doesn't have to do anything but install the program that runs in the background.
     
    Lordeden, Aug 22, 2012
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  3. Craven Morehead

    Craven Morehead Very Tilted

    Location:
    third rock from the sun
    Craven Morehead, Aug 23, 2012
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  4. ROSSBRENTWOOD

    RossBrentwood New Member

    Location:
    Portland, OR
    I highly recommend Google Drive.

    I have 30 Gigabytes of space for about $2.50 a month, accessible on any device that is connected to the internet.
     
    RossBrentwood, Aug 29, 2012
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  5. martian

    martian Server Monkey Staff Member

    Location:
    Mars
    In a professional capacity, I would use something like rsync.net, because I can work it into my own custom-built backup scripts that allow me to do things like automated testing and encryption before firing it off over the interwebs.

    For personal stuff, Backblaze. $5 per month, unlimited storage, you just set up their little daemon/service/whatever and it takes care of everything for you.
     
    martian, Aug 29, 2012
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  6. aabbccbbaa2

    aabbccbbaa2 Vertical

    google drive and dropbox are both good and free to a certain level.
    I'm using dropbox since google drive needs 10.6 os mac and i'm running 10.5.
     
    aabbccbbaa2, Aug 31, 2012
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