Online back-up/storage recommendations

[PS]

Hi,

Would appreciate advice on which online storage to consider for personal use.


Thanks

[shania176]

Are there any requirements or features you need? Sharing, syncing with other services, file versioning, collaboration tools, security & encryption, in terms of photos etc.

[PS]

Are there any requirements or features you need? Sharing, syncing with other services, file versioning, collaboration tools, security & encryption, in terms of photos etc.

Hi,

Mainly sharing and security.

[chris2982]

I use the one we sell at work, , 2tb for 5 years £60.. can sync to 5 devices.

[Captain Morgan]

I use spider oak at the time I felt the security model was one of if not the best out there.
The encryption keys live on the devices not on the vendor servers which means if you lose / forget you key then the data is unavailable but the vendor has zero access to your data.

I think it's pricey compared to over options but we use it for my wife's business too and security is key

[soundood]

it really depends on how much you need, most ISP's provide with at least 5 gig free, onedrive with office 360 gives you 10 gig I believe, maybe more.

if you need more then as above, get a quote for a period for set size, £10 per year is a good start for 50 gig I would say

[learningtofly]

Have a look at Carbonite. The home user package is fantastic value and I've actually backed up fully from it twice now. I also get full access to my files from mobile devices.

[soundood]

Have a look at Carbonite. The home user package is fantastic value and I've actually backed up fully from it twice now. I also get full access to my files from mobile devices.

I shall have a look myself at them Tony, I am not that happy with my current set up, my data is currently scattered over maybe three providers.

[jcm3]

Hi,

Would appreciate advice on which online storage to consider for personal use.


Thanks

I use ARQ, have for the last few years. My favorite part is that it works with absolutely zero input from me, I can't forget to do it and its always up to date.

The software is a one time purchase (per version anyway) of $39.99, and then I just pay for storage from my preferred cloud service. I already had a Amazon S3 acct for another purpose, and it runs me $11 mo. for the storage for both this and my other project. I set my folks and a few other family members up with accounts on Google drive, and those are free for up to 15GB.

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/

[Phil Lee]

I use CrashPlan and Backblaze to backup my MacBook Pro. I also backup all my photos to SmugMug although this isn't an automated process.

[PS]

Thank you.

I will look into carbonite.

[Glamdring]

I opted for Dropbox. Fuss-free photo storage (full size not like Amazon's cheat file reduction) and any other folders you nominate, shared/public folder, auto upload. 1TB for £79pa. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...AG0531-02.jpeg

[eduk]

it really depends on how much you need, most ISP's provide with at least 5 gig free, onedrive with office 360 gives you 10 gig I believe, maybe more.

if you need more then as above, get a quote for a period for set size, £10 per year is a good start for 50 gig I would say

Might be wrong as I get mine through work but think a 365 account gets you 1TB of cloud storage now which given the software you get as well if you need the programs the storage is a nice add on.

[soundood]

I just signed up to Carbonite on Tony's recommendation, for $49/year for unlimited back up space, this was crucial for me as I have around 3 TB's of family photos and video, I had them scattered across many different free ones, but I was getting confused with what I had backed up (or not)

it is currently doing a first back up at the moment, then it will sit and monitor the back up folder for any changes, perfect.

[learningtofly]

^^^ Can't go wrong. The first backup can obviously take a while, but subsequent incremental backups are unnoticeable.