Online data backup service
Sign up or Sign in comments and reviews
Hi Robert! Hope all is well with you. I don't have personal experience with it, but I just went to a conference and spent some time with the founder of Carbonite. He told a very compelling story and seemed to have a reasonable view of what backup software should do.
Not exactly what you asked, but our "data backup service" is Ofoto (now Kodak Gallery).That's the primary way we've been sharing/managing photos for years. It's reasonably easy to use (including a nice desktop app for easy editing and bulk uploading), our parents use it for getting prints, and making mugs/calendars is easy too. They will send you a CD of your photos (at full uploaded resolution) at pretty reasonable rates. We've never used it, but it seems like great insurance. And the best thing is, you only pay if you need it -- upload/sharing is always free. http://www.kodakgallery.com/ArchivalCDOverview.jsp I imagine the other photo sharing services have similar arrangements?
You could use a service like mobile me from Apple. It works with both Macs and Windows (http://www.apple.com/mobileme/). It's not free, but Apple looks after the data, and keeps it backed-up. You also get web space, email and online photo gallery space. You might not need those things, but you can't order a la carte.
If you would like to try a new service that is about to launch, I would love to get mobspin feedback on Zumodrive. ZumoDrive blends local storage with the Amazon cloud by adding a drive to your computer that performs like a local drive but with unlimited storage. It will storage any files and folders added to it in the cloud and intelligently determine which files to keep locally based on your activity, and as a result, you will usually have all the content you need even when offline. You just drag and drop the folder/files to the drive and they are backed up in Amazon, and available on all computers and smart phones that you have authorized. For Music you can access your music library through iTunes for all your computers without having the bits on any. You can also have access to all your music on the Iphone, even if you have the original 4MB version. For photographs they are available in sharable photo albums as well on your Iphone without needing syncs. It does a lot more than just backup and is much much easier to use than the current services and will continue to get even more so. They currently support Macs, PCs and iPhones. Use the code - zfriends - to download Zumodrive from http://www.zumodrive.com/. All the data is stored in Amazons data centers in S3. It is stored encrypted and is replicated by them in multiple data centers. Video showing the service : http://www.viddler.com/explore/tandem/videos/13/ Here is a photo album on Zumo: http://www.zumodrive.com/photo/share/2TNjJmN2 Here is some feedback from one of our early users (they are all currently early) ..... My metrics are as follows In summary, this is the best fileshare I have seen...I have spent lots of money with 4-5 websites, smugmug, xdrive, google...but they all seem stone age compared to this... For me lifelong preservation and easy access of my digital photo library is very critical....since there are no Analog Backups anymore
I've actually been using Carbonite for a couple years now. I really like it. It's excellent - easy to recover backups, seamless, doesn't seem to affect the computer speed, not very expensive, etc. I even use it for 10+ GB video files.
Guys at lifehacker like backblaze ... I haven't used it myself but I think the guys at lifehacker are pretty good:http://lifehacker.com/5101618/backblaze-offers-hassle+free-unlimited-online-backup
Sign up or Sign in |