scouser 4 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I am fed up of my crappy backup drive and the fact that it's sat right next to me. So if there's a fire, it gets done too. So was looking into some of the cloud services there are now for backup. Anyone use any of these services? Well, one of the reputable ones anyway. Having a bit of trouble getting round sending stuff 'outside', not that there's much top secret stuff going on here. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I used Zoolz, the Genie9 people. Easy to use, safe (supposedly), unlimited and cheap. The only downer is you need to wait a few hours for restores to come out of "cold storage", but for $2 a month I think I can live with that. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I'm interested in this too. It probably won't be long before this is the thing that is done, so to speak, rather than having local backups as the main. I find the whole backup thing frustrating though. Shifting them off somewhere seems like a good idea to me, esp. if it is very secure/encrypted whatever. Link to post Share on other sites
scouser 4 Posted June 10, 2014 Author Share Posted June 10, 2014 Thanks. So difficult to know which is best with all the 'sponsored' best lists and all. Link to post Share on other sites
634-maru 4 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 $2 a month. Got me thinking about it, has this. Link to post Share on other sites
1 4 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I know it's not a full backup, but I use Dropbox to keep copies of important stuff. Link to post Share on other sites
klingon 10 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Dropbox I believe gets pretty expensive if you want a very large volumne. Link to post Share on other sites
Error404 0 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 The woman was probably on a dinosaur connection and things may have improved, but I remember reading about a case where a photographer signed up for one of these and it took 9 months (NINE MONTHS!!!) for all her files to upload to the service the first time. Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 Do you know "where" your data actually is, if it's in the cloud? Other than "in the cloud"? Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I have bee reading up on this since this thread started. Like the idea of something like Zoolz. Fir a cost like that you can't go wrong really. Link to post Share on other sites
cal 6 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I would still take a local backup. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I dont trust any of the cloud services. No matter how safe they say they are at the end of the day a human is at the end of it in control. I do all local backups to external HD's and blueray/ DVD data discs. That way I know where all my data is. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 Do you store your discs in your home? A computer connected to the internet is vulnerable. Any/everything has some 'risk'. Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I have a 3TB Airport Time Capsule at home that is connected to another 2TB hard drive. The Time Capsule is for backing up and the 2TB is used as another drive (and a backup that I infrequently update). The advantage of having it hooked up like this is the continual automatic backups and access to an external hard drive wirelessly. I also use dropbox for most of my work files and more and more I'm using iCloud, especially since you can access iCloud on a PC through their website. If my house were to burn down or wash away in a flood I'd lose a lot of not so important files which would be annoying but no big deal. All of my important work, research and even things like wedding photos is in the cloud now. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I did not know you could do iCloud from PC. Thanks BM! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 What do you guys backup? I don't do that but then I dont think I have anything that needs backing up....I suppose I have a lot of photos that I'd be kinda bummed if I lost them but most are on Facebook....so I suppose that's a kind of backup for them Link to post Share on other sites
r45 4 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 other people, not me!! Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted June 16, 2014 Share Posted June 16, 2014 I did not know you could do iCloud from PC. Thanks BM! Yeah, it's kind of a new(ish) thing. A few of the applications like Keynote and Pages are still in Beta I think and are missing a bit of functionality but they are still really useful. All of the important stuff is there. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted June 17, 2014 Share Posted June 17, 2014 For me: Photos. Work files (not many). Link to post Share on other sites
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