Saturday, December 30, 2006

Online backups

Over the past couple of months, I've seen articles written by people who have lost - or have come close to losing - serious amounts of data from the hard drives. I've got a service that costs about $16/month that backs up everything on my hard disk that changes every night. If they transmit more than a certain amount of data per month, though, my cost goes up.

A few days ago, my wife told me that the Dec 28 All Things Considered on NPR mentioned a new service called Carbonite. It costs $5/month, backs up files over the Internet when they change, and has no limit on the amount you can back up. She's checking it out with their 15 day free trial. Seems like a great service.

1 Comments:

At 10:25 PM, Blogger David said...

I've been meaning to check out Data Deposit Box, primarily because of this review by David Seah

http://davidseah.com/archives/2006/12/21/paid-review-data-deposit-box-continuous-online-backup/

The cost is not on a per-computer basis, but rather on a per-storage space used.

 

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