Cloud backup storage..who's the best provider?

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Seriously looking at alternative options to external drive backup and cloud storage looks the way to go, it's a bit of a minefiled though as there's lots of providers but many of them unkown to me..who do you use?

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Simon
 
Not much help but I don't use any as the cost is prohibitive once the GB's get into the larger numbers. The other point is your upload speed, it takes an age to transfer files even with a good connection.............find out your upload speed and do the sums. :)
 
cpuwizz said:
Box are OK and the first 50 gig is free or was a couple weeks ago.
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You've got the dot in the wrong place, it's 5GB free :)
 
I can recommend Crashplan. Costs me about £3 per month for unlimited cloud storage and you can also use their client to backup to other machines either at home or friends/family.
 
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I have 500Gb with Amazon Glacier, costs me $7 a month.
 
Crash plan start rate limiting uploads at around 200G if I remember correctly. I'm with backupsolutions as they are one of the few to have UK based servers. It was the only way I could use most of my 16Mbit upload. Cost is $100 per year but storage is unlimited (think I have close to a Tbyte there now...) They use Iron Mountain storage which is exactly the same system we have in work. The backup client is even the same...
 
I use livedrive - no limits on data amount. Last time I looked I had 1.2 tb on there. Costs about £100 a year
 
arad85 said:
Crash plan start rate limiting uploads at around 200G if I remember correctly. I'm with backupsolutions as they are one of the few to have UK based servers. It was the only way I could use most of my 16Mbit upload. Cost is $100 per year but storage is unlimited (think I have close to a Tbyte there now...) They use Iron Mountain storage which is exactly the same system we have in work. The backup client is even the same...
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Just had a quick check as although I am nowhere near 200GB I would be disappointed if they did limit the upload rate. Fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
 
gatecrasher3 said:
Just had a quick check as although I am nowhere near 200GB I would be disappointed if they did limit the upload rate. Fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Ahh.. My apologies... it is Carbonite that limits upload speeds: http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1440/~/[general]-bandwidth-allocation

Anyway, when I tried both of them at the end of last year, I couldn't get more than about 2Mbit up. Backupsolutions was my full 16Mbit up...
 
Thanks everyone...as well as costs though I'm interested in the reliability of the provider, the internet seems full of companies who provide storage but most of them are unknown names so are they higher risk...think I'll have a look at Amazon & Crashplan

Simon
 
simonkit said:
Thanks everyone...as well as costs though I'm interested in the reliability of the provider
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I'd also look at upload speeds. If you have anything like a fast upload, you need to make sure you can get your data to them quickly (Crashplan failed miserably for me at ~2Mbps up).

Most providers have free trial periods - it's worth using them before you splash your cash as if you change providers, you'll have to reupload all the data next year....
 
Just as an aside, this thread has made me look at my online backup system to understand how it manages my data. I started with a trial service on 10th December and in the online backup control panel, I can actually go back to the backup of 10th December and get that. I backup daily, so that's at least 90 days worth of backups that the system keeps (and I reckon on uploading close to 100G/week).

I must say I am mightily impressed (how far back you can go to recover old backups isn't fully fleshed out in the faqs).
 
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