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    Online Backup Solutions

    I'm curious, how many folk here trust online backup solutions as part of their data protection solution? It seems that most such services are rather crappy or have oddball "encryption" schemes. At least one provider i found claimed to use crypto, but then if one wishes to restore from the backup, they decrypt the files remotely and let you subsequently download them.

    The ideal solution (and the only one that i would trust) involves me just backing up my TrueCrypt containers... but it would seem that utterly none of the main online backup services will handle any files over 10 or 20 GB in size.

    What do other folk do for backups? Am i likely relegated to just continuing to use external drives that i swap around and keep offsite in various places?
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    Re: Online Backup Solutions

    Originally posted by Deviant Ollam View Post
    What do other folk do for backups? Am i likely relegated to just continuing to use external drives that i swap around and keep offsite in various places?
    Could you list the ones you've considered? I've been investigating this area, and plan on using one of them, and there's down sides and up sides to each and every one. Here's a couple of notes, off the top of my head (I'll be back later with more detail, but it's pretty early for me yet).

    The only two truly commercial vendors that I'm still considering are Carbonite and Mozy, both of which will handle windows or mac. Most of my machines are neither, so this is an inconvenience.

    From an email I sent to a private mailing list I belong to:

    I'm looking for any and all suggestions. I found a site that has
    reviews for 7 solutions, but I've only heard of one of them (dropbox).

    http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20...ineBackup.html

    A partial reply, reproduced because it was so useful:

    For online backup options that have Win/Mac/Linux clients, I would
    recommend looking into:

    1. Jungle Disk - Light weight and straight forward. Backs up straight
    to Amazon S3 or Rackspace servers. You pay by the gig ($0.15/gb/month
    last I looked) for the the space you use, as well as a couple bucks
    for each computer. It's easy to use and is quickly and simple, and
    includes online storage options beyond just backup. Can be dirt cheap
    if you don't need much space.

    2. Crashplan - Unlimited backup for one or all of your computers.
    This is nice because you can pay one monthly fee to back up all your
    data (unlimited!) for all of your and your family's computers
    (unlimited!). It also lets you back up from one of your computers to
    another, or to a friend's computer for free. The client UI is a bit
    slow to launch and is somewhat bloated, and includes ads unless you
    pay a one-time fee to buy it. The backup engine service, however, is
    not slow or bloated, and gets the job done with no fuss or excess
    system usage.

    Both are great, and go at the problem very differently. I have a lot
    of experience with both (as well as nearly all the other options).
    Let me know if you have other questions.

    Attention, for those who have not thoroughly read my comments. *I* did not write the above, I'm merely reproducing it.

    That's a start. Back later, with more.

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    • #3
      Re: Online Backup Solutions

      I do note that Dropbox (unofficially) supports truecrypt volumes. I personally use it for my presentations as a backup in case something goes sideways with my machines (been known to happen from time to time).
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      • #4
        Re: Online Backup Solutions

        I don't use online backup since even though your information is so called encrypted it still can be open it might take some time and all but the oddball encryptions are still encryptions once you obtain the key it's all over. But it does proivde room to keep your stuff ready so if something does happen you can always obtain the documents and information stored online.

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        • #5
          Re: Online Backup Solutions

          Originally posted by renderman View Post
          I do note that Dropbox (unofficially) supports truecrypt volumes. I personally use it for my presentations as a backup in case something goes sideways with my machines (been known to happen from time to time).
          I also use Dropbox, but just for a small amount of data.
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          • #6
            Re: Online Backup Solutions

            I pay for webhosting, my particular post gave me a 50gb backup server for free but otherwise I just used to use the webspace for backup.

            You're not meant to for backups but if it's a few documents its not too hard to make them available with a password.

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