Cool Online Backup Tool

I don't know if you've heard, but Amazon is offering online diskspace for very, very cheap prices.

I've been looking for a way to backup my business related files and all of my personal photo's. My goal was to make it automated, easy to manage and cheap.

http://www.jungledisk.com/index.aspx

This seemed to fit the bill. It's $20 to buy the software. Then you sign up for Amazon's S3 storage service. You pay a monthly fee based on the amount of data you've stored and the amount of bandwidth you've used. To give you an idea, it's 15 cents per Gigabyte of storage.

I've got about 10 GB of data to store, so I expect to pay 2-3 bucks a month. Now, if there is a fire or if my system is stolen, I can recover the files that really are irreplaceable.

Atomm wrote:I don't know if you've heard, but Amazon is offering online diskspace for very, very cheap prices.

I've been looking for a way to backup my business related files and all of my personal photo's. My goal was to make it automated, easy to manage and cheap.

http://www.jungledisk.com/index.aspx

This seemed to fit the bill. It's $20 to buy the software. Then you sign up for Amazon's S3 storage service. You pay a monthly fee based on the amount of data you've stored and the amount of bandwidth you've used. To give you an idea, it's 15 cents per Gigabyte of storage.

I've got about 10 GB of data to store, so I expect to pay 2-3 bucks a month. Now, if there is a fire or if my system is stolen, I can recover the files that really are irreplaceable.

I would highly recommend you check out http://www.carbonite.com/. It is only $50 for a full year ($4.17/month)

It is also automated, encrypted, secure and has a good rep. You also have NO bandwidth or storage limitations.

That is cool as well.

I didn't see anything about versioning. Under Jungledisk, I can tell it how many versions to keep and if it should keep a version of a deleted file or just delete it. Other than that one aspect, Carbonite sounds cool as well.

I've been looking for something like this for a while. I should have posted it as a question long ago.

If I hadn't already paid for Jungledisk, I'd consider Carbonite.

If you feel like you can trust "the man", microsoft's Skydrive has bumped their free storage to 25GB. You can access it from anywhere and share individual folders with people...

http://skydrive.live.com/

If I could figure out how to upload ALL of my photos at once, instead of 1 at a time; I'd probably go ahead and use that skydrive thing... since it's free.

Don't want much, do you. 😈

You could zip and upload. That would be all at once. Now as long as you delete all of them before restoring, you'll be ok. ;-)

And just so it doesn't come across snide, I'm giving you a hard time. 😛

MooseDog wrote:If I could figure out how to upload ALL of my photos at once, instead of 1 at a time; I'd probably go ahead and use that skydrive thing... since it's free.

If you want to store only photos I would recommend you use http://www.kodakgallery.com You can keep an unlimited amount of photos there, set them up to share with people and can order prints from them directly. (yes you can batch upload)

The only caveat is you have to purchase at least ONE print per year. So basically free 🙂

Also Kodak is huge and not going away unlike some other smaller companies did. People lost their photos because of that.

I'll consider the Kodak thing... on the other hand I may just go for the full blown online backup. Hmm.

Atomm... when you guys stop giving me a hard time, I know it's time for me to pack up and go. 😉

or you're dead.

LOL! Cool Moosedog.

We use kodak gallery. My wife is a kodak gallery junkie. My only complaint is it's hard to download the image back down once it's there. Also, do to the size of the picture files, we have to compress our photo's to speed up the upload process. I do think of it as a backup of sorts, but not the backup. Does that make sense?

I think we pay the $30 a year and get discounts and stuff. It's worth the small fee.