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Jason Huggins · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:06 am Post subject: Online Backup and Storage

Do any of you use a service (like Carbonite or Mozy or Crashplan) for online backup? If so, what ate your experiences with the ones you've tried, and which would you recommend?

Matto · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:20 am Post subject:

Hey Jason,

Fortunately I've never had to "use" a backup service or method of any kind before, but I am currently subscribed to Carbonite. I think it's great. I like the way that it is always backing up my data and that I can choose how fast the data uploads.

Hopefully the service will keep up the quality if I ever need to rescue my hard drive! No problems yet... *bangs fist on wooden desk*
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Bish · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:34 am Post subject:

Carbonite gets good reviews... I roll my own with a pogoplug and remote hard drive at a friend's house. I use an automated backup program to copy the files nightly (differential backup). As with all of these things, the industry is at odds with itself. More and more services offer good on-line solutions (back-up, transfer and collaborative working), but the carriers are putting bandwidth caps on as fast as they can, trying to shake as much money out of you as possible. Make sure that any on-line backup solution doesn't fall foul of your ISP's caps (if you have them).
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:51 am Post subject:

I considered doing the server at another house thing, and that still may be an answer. Good thought on the transfer caps. I'll have to make sure that I don't hit that. It would be lame to be cut off, or charged when I try to upload actual work to a client, just because I backed up too much too fast. Thanks guys.

My other thought was this: My webhost offers unlimited bandwidth and storage. Is there a good FTP program that is designed for backups?

georgethetech · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject:

Backing up everything in the house for $10/month with CrashPlan. Big fan.
FIOS helps, of course, but we'll north of 5Tb data in the cloud.
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Lee Gordon · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject:

I'm in the same boat as Matt. I use Carbonite and I am confident that everything I've specified is all safely backed up but I have never had to restore any of it so I can't say for certain.
For some reason, I thought Carbonite worked quietly in the background but "stepped aside" when it detected activity, but that is not the case. Sometimes it will be furiously doing its thing to the point that it may start to slow down the other things I'm doing. When that happens, I pause it for and hour, or four hours if I'm doing something long-form.
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Brian in Charlotte · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:35 am Post subject:

In my tower, I have 4 hard drives: Mac HD and an Audio drive where I store all my ProTools files etc. Then I use SuperDuper (less than $30) and it creates a "mirror" of both my drives....and YES, the mirror of the MacintoshHD main drive IS BOOTABLE. So, should something happen to my main, I simply shut down swap drives and keep on going. Same with my Audio drive. There are serious advantages to this, however I'm not against cloud services at all.
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DougVox · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 1:21 pm Post subject:

Jason Huggins · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:52 pm Post subject:

I went with CrashPlan. The great thing was, I started a trial of carbonite, and CrashPlan offers a free year of service if you switch from carbonite (even an unpaid trial!)