Comments on: How to back up your system http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/ The personal web site of Eirik Solheim Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:19:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Marta http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2233 Marta Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:26:33 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2233 Hi, i recently tried: MEMOPAL, both for back up on real time and ftp and file sharing. For now i have free 250gb for trhee months. It is faster than MOZY and CARBONITE. Hi, i recently tried: MEMOPAL, both for back up on real time and ftp and file sharing. For now i have free 250gb for trhee months. It is faster than MOZY and CARBONITE.

]]> By: info http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2232 info Fri, 15 Dec 2006 22:29:10 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2232 Take a look at www.arkall.com They do Linux and MAC OSX Take a look at http://www.arkall.com
They do Linux and MAC OSX

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2231 Eirikso Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:07:10 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2231 For photos I think <a href="http://picasa.com" rel="nofollow">Picasa</a> and <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/" rel="nofollow">Photoshop Album</a> have some quite intuitive tools. But what about installing <a href="http://carbonite.com" rel="nofollow">Carbonite</a> or <a href="http://mozy.com" rel="nofollow">Mozy</a> on their box? You set it up and they forget about it. If anything goes horribly wrong you help them with the restore? <a href="http://www.eirikso.com/2006/08/21/sharpcast-rocks/" rel="nofollow">Sharpcast</a> is an extremely intuitive solution for image backup as well, but currently they only offer a free 5 GIG account. For photos I think Picasa and Photoshop Album have some quite intuitive tools. But what about installing Carbonite or Mozy on their box? You set it up and they forget about it. If anything goes horribly wrong you help them with the restore?

Sharpcast is an extremely intuitive solution for image backup as well, but currently they only offer a free 5 GIG account.

]]> By: Ramon http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2230 Ramon Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:43:23 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2230 Great article, Eirik. I'm already using SyncBack nightly between computers at home, and I also use it to back up to an external disk one every three months or so. Carbonite for lousy $5 a month surely beats an external disk though, so I'm signing up. One question. I need to help my parent's with this backup thing as well. They have the gigs of photos, but not the knowledge to backup. Do you know a program that will <strong>very intuitively</strong> let you back up several gigs of files to a set of DVD's? By the way. I had to shunnel to my home computer in order to submit this comment. I guess the Telenor firewall/proxy does not "conform to the HTTP specification"... Great article, Eirik. I’m already using SyncBack nightly between computers at home, and I also use it to back up to an external disk one every three months or so. Carbonite for lousy $5 a month surely beats an external disk though, so I’m signing up.

One question. I need to help my parent’s with this backup thing as well. They have the gigs of photos, but not the knowledge to backup. Do you know a program that will very intuitively let you back up several gigs of files to a set of DVD’s?

By the way. I had to shunnel to my home computer in order to submit this comment. I guess the Telenor firewall/proxy does not “conform to the HTTP specification”…

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2229 Eirikso Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:36:54 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2229 Simple. <a href="http://carbonite.com" rel="nofollow">Carbonite</a> use <a href="http://elephantdrive.com/welcome/index.aspx" rel="nofollow">Elephantdrive</a>. They use <a href="http://mozy.com" rel="nofollow">Mozy</a>. Mozy use Carbonite and carbonite use Elephantdrive and so on... :-) Simple. Carbonite use Elephantdrive. They use Mozy. Mozy use Carbonite and carbonite use Elephantdrive and so on… :-)

]]> By: Kjetil http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 Kjetil Fri, 03 Nov 2006 21:15:08 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2228 But how does the backsup solutions do their backups? Catch 22? But how does the backsup solutions do their backups? Catch 22?

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2227 Eirikso Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:19:33 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2227 <a href="http://jungledisk.com/index.shtml" rel="nofollow">Jungledisk</a> and <a href="https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/subscription/index.html?serviceID=8&servicePlanID=6" rel="nofollow">Amazon S3</a> supports linux. Jungledisk and Amazon S3 supports linux.

]]> By: Knut http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2219 Knut Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:09:11 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2219 It's interesting to see what this topic brings. Cheap reliable backup are a must when having digital images! I have been doing some research of offline backup solutions. My needs are for a Linux tool, but I see that theres lots of interesting Windows based solutions. Theres more in <a href="http://knut.sandvik.bz/category/backup/" rel="nofollow">my blog</a>. It’s interesting to see what this topic brings. Cheap reliable backup are a must when having digital images!

I have been doing some research of offline backup solutions. My needs are for a Linux tool, but I see that theres lots of interesting Windows based solutions. Theres more in my blog.

]]> By: Eirikso http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2226 Eirikso Wed, 01 Nov 2006 09:55:05 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2226 Thank you. The fact that Carbonite isn't that unlimited after all is important information. I have updated my post and pointed to this comment. Thank you. The fact that Carbonite isn’t that unlimited after all is important information. I have updated my post and pointed to this comment.

]]> By: Don Carlos http://eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/comment-page-1/#comment-2225 Don Carlos Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:22:39 +0000 http://www.eirikso.com/2006/10/30/how-ro-back-up-your-system/#comment-2225 Eirik, I use Carbonite to backup my photos (I'm a free beta tester) because photos only need to be backed up one-time, and they do a fine job of that. But, when you need to backup constantly-changing files (i.e. Outlook, databases, Word docs, etc.), they have to re-backup the ENTIRE file (Outlook files get to be multiple GBs over time). So, I needed a backup that does incremental backups, not full backups. I tried a few online backups, but the hands down winner for those advanced features such as incremental backups is Mozy.com. With Mozy, I backup my full files one-time, then when the file changes, Mozy backs up the changed portion only, saving time and bandwidth. The upload and download rate are about the same as Carbonite, but you can "throttle" Mozy back to a specific rate if you don't want it using all your bandwidth, yet still be running (it also has an option to automatically back off using system resources if you are using your computer). Mozy is free for 2GB and you get 256MB more for every person you refer. 30GB is only $4.45/mo. So, I am running both Carbonite and Mozy, with no conflicts between the two. Oh, I do need to point out one thing, though. Carbonite is NOT unlimited backup. I've run into several cases in the blogosphere where Carbonite terminated services for people who used "excess" "unlimited" space. This blogger wrote verbosely on the subject: http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/29/carbonite-when-unlimited-is-limited/ Don Eirik,

I use Carbonite to backup my photos (I’m a free beta tester) because photos only need to be backed up one-time, and they do a fine job of that. But, when you need to backup constantly-changing files (i.e. Outlook, databases, Word docs, etc.), they have to re-backup the ENTIRE file (Outlook files get to be multiple GBs over time). So, I needed a backup that does incremental backups, not full backups.

I tried a few online backups, but the hands down winner for those advanced features such as incremental backups is Mozy.com. With Mozy, I backup my full files one-time, then when the file changes, Mozy backs up the changed portion only, saving time and bandwidth. The upload and download rate are about the same as Carbonite, but you can “throttle” Mozy back to a specific rate if you don’t want it using all your bandwidth, yet still be running (it also has an option to automatically back off using system resources if you are using your computer). Mozy is free for 2GB and you get 256MB more for every person you refer. 30GB is only $4.45/mo.

So, I am running both Carbonite and Mozy, with no conflicts between the two. Oh, I do need to point out one thing, though. Carbonite is NOT unlimited backup. I’ve run into several cases in the blogosphere where Carbonite terminated services for people who used “excess” “unlimited” space. This blogger wrote verbosely on the subject: http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/29/carbonite-when-unlimited-is-limited/

Don

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