Online backup services for home PC? (1 Viewer)

[Sabertooth]

I am looking into finding a good online backup service for my home PC. Mostly just pictures docutments, stuff like that. What are some good affordable options that FBGs have some experience with. I was looking into CrashPlan but only because it came up on Lifehacker. Seems legit.

I had a hard drive bite the dust when my daughter was 2 or 3 and we lost a lot of pics. Wife still has that hard drive in our safe and I know it hurt her a lot losing those pictures. I run my business through my home PC and was thinking of the tax implications recently and though to myself how much work it would be if I were to lose my hard drive. Not to mention I don't know what I'd do if I were to have a house fire. I'd be without any records are all if the physical receipts and computer burned up.

Anyone have experience with CrashPlan or Carbonite or anything like that?

 

[shadyridr]

 

[Cliff Clavin]

Google Drive

 

[NutterButter]

Amazon has an unlimited plan for 60/yr

 

[PinkydaPimp]

crashplan and backblaze are both solid options.

 

[johnnycakes]

Oh, that reminds me... I just set up a new computer a month ago. I was using CrashPlan Pro on the old computer and I need to cancel that service now. I found it less than satisfactory. Much less. And from the reviews I have seen, they are at least as good as anything else out there. I'm going with an external flash drive for backup now.

 

[PinkydaPimp]

Oh, that reminds me... I just set up a new computer a month ago. I was using CrashPlan Pro on the old computer and I need to cancel that service now. I found it less than satisfactory. Much less. And from the reviews I have seen, they are at least as good as anything else out there. I'm going with an external flash drive for backup now.

what didnt you like about it? Im testing it out now. seems pretty easy. Though i may just end up buying a synology and backing up to that. Not sure how i feel about having my data in the cloud.

 

[wilked]

I am looking into finding a good online backup service for my home PC. Mostly just pictures docutments, stuff like that. What are some good affordable options that FBGs have some experience with. I was looking into CrashPlan but only because it came up on Lifehacker. Seems legit.

I had a hard drive bite the dust when my daughter was 2 or 3 and we lost a lot of pics. Wife still has that hard drive in our safe and I know it hurt her a lot losing those pictures. I run my business through my home PC and was thinking of the tax implications recently and though to myself how much work it would be if I were to lose my hard drive. Not to mention I don't know what I'd do if I were to have a house fire. I'd be without any records are all if the physical receipts and computer burned up.

Anyone have experience with CrashPlan or Carbonite or anything like that?

Did you send that hard drive to a data recovery service? Those guys are amazing, I think they are able to recover over 90% of drives

 

[dal_boys_phan]

Amazon has an unlimited plan for 60/yr

If you are prime, then you get unlimited photos for free. The $60/year would get you everything else (documents, music, etc.) but at times you would have to use their crappy desktop client (to load individual items over 2 GB). Gets the job done, but not Apple slick.

Another similar priced option to look into would be OneDrive from Microsoft - not a paid reference here, just an increased use of their services in the past six months. If you have the Office365 subscription, I believe you start with 1TB of space, but it is considered unlimited if you use that up. Awesome integration (from what I have read) if you have a Windows Phone, but the others are not left in the dark. I have been testing it with documents so far (drop them into a folder on my PC, available everywhere) with no issues and having photos upload directly from my mobile without issues. The Office365 subscription works on 5 PC's and they have iPad Office apps that link into OneDrive very nicely. And Android apps are available as well (yes, I play in all three sandboxes) if you need that. Additional crossover to Xbox as well (including their Spotify alternative Xbox Music - formerly Zune - which is now allowing you to upload your music to OneDrive - but only playable on Xbox or Windows Phones).

 

[Mr. Ected]

Been using Crashplan for a while. Been very happy with it.

 

[johnnycakes]

Oh, that reminds me... I just set up a new computer a month ago. I was using CrashPlan Pro on the old computer and I need to cancel that service now. I found it less than satisfactory. Much less. And from the reviews I have seen, they are at least as good as anything else out there. I'm going with an external flash drive for backup now.

what didnt you like about it? Im testing it out now. seems pretty easy. Though i may just end up buying a synology and backing up to that. Not sure how i feel about having my data in the cloud.

When the crap hit the fan after about two years of using CrashPlan Pro, when I finally NEEDED to access the backup... I couldn't. Had to reload Windows... re-setup CrashPlan; it thought this was an entirely new computer or something and seemingly dumped the old backup. Where it went, I have no idea. But if I have it on physical drive, at least I know where it's at.

 

[Jack White]

I've used Carbonite for a couple years. No complaints.

Only downside I see is it doesn't backup video files. Not sure if that's standard in the industry or not.

 

[PlayaHata]

Been using Crashplan for a while. Been very happy with it.

Same here.

 

[Christo]

Carbonite here. No problems so far. And I've had it long enough to be on my third laptop.

 

[PinkydaPimp]

Im leaning towards a combination of backing up to a home nas like synology, then replicating it to the cloud for redundancy and disaster recovery using crashplan. I do have concerns about privacy in the cloud however so i would likely be selective what i put up there or encrypt it.

 

[PinkydaPimp]

Oh, that reminds me... I just set up a new computer a month ago. I was using CrashPlan Pro on the old computer and I need to cancel that service now. I found it less than satisfactory. Much less. And from the reviews I have seen, they are at least as good as anything else out there. I'm going with an external flash drive for backup now.

what didnt you like about it? Im testing it out now. seems pretty easy. Though i may just end up buying a synology and backing up to that. Not sure how i feel about having my data in the cloud.

When the crap hit the fan after about two years of using CrashPlan Pro, when I finally NEEDED to access the backup... I couldn't. Had to reload Windows... re-setup CrashPlan; it thought this was an entirely new computer or something and seemingly dumped the old backup. Where it went, I have no idea. But if I have it on physical drive, at least I know where it's at.

Yikes. They couldnt send you a drive with the data?

 

[johnnycakes]

Oh, that reminds me... I just set up a new computer a month ago. I was using CrashPlan Pro on the old computer and I need to cancel that service now. I found it less than satisfactory. Much less. And from the reviews I have seen, they are at least as good as anything else out there. I'm going with an external flash drive for backup now.

what didnt you like about it? Im testing it out now. seems pretty easy. Though i may just end up buying a synology and backing up to that. Not sure how i feel about having my data in the cloud.

When the crap hit the fan after about two years of using CrashPlan Pro, when I finally NEEDED to access the backup... I couldn't. Had to reload Windows... re-setup CrashPlan; it thought this was an entirely new computer or something and seemingly dumped the old backup. Where it went, I have no idea. But if I have it on physical drive, at least I know where it's at.

Yikes. They couldnt send you a drive with the data?

Who knows. I want the device to be idiot proof and work the first time without my having to think too much.

 

[Bri]

Amazon or WD.

If you buy a WD Cloud product, you get the external hard drive for home and some free space in "the cloud" to store as well.

Their "Smartware" backup program is simple and great. Super easy to setup and once ya do, it takes over from there.

Most setups have it where you have to remember to backup and ...that's oddly difficult to do.

Amazon offers encrypted storage which might be necessary for your business documents

 

[Abraham]

I use Dropbox. Works great on every device I have.

 

[PlayaHata]

Im leaning towards a combination of backing up to a home nas like synology, then replicating it to the cloud for redundancy and disaster recovery using crashplan. I do have concerns about privacy in the cloud however so i would likely be selective what i put up there or encrypt it.

I do exactly this with CrashPlan. I backup to 2 locations - an external USB HD and the CrashPlan Cloud. That way I the ability to do very quick restores from my local backup, but I'm still protected from a disaster recovery standpoint with the cloud backup as well.

 

[eoMMan]

No protection for me. I like to go raw dawg and take my chances.

(But I'll occasionally backup some files on an external usb drive or usb flash drive.)

 

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I use Dropbox. Works great on every device I have.

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[Sabertooth]

I am looking into finding a good online backup service for my home PC. Mostly just pictures docutments, stuff like that. What are some good affordable options that FBGs have some experience with. I was looking into CrashPlan but only because it came up on Lifehacker. Seems legit.

I had a hard drive bite the dust when my daughter was 2 or 3 and we lost a lot of pics. Wife still has that hard drive in our safe and I know it hurt her a lot losing those pictures. I run my business through my home PC and was thinking of the tax implications recently and though to myself how much work it would be if I were to lose my hard drive. Not to mention I don't know what I'd do if I were to have a house fire. I'd be without any records are all if the physical receipts and computer burned up.

Anyone have experience with CrashPlan or Carbonite or anything like that?

Did you send that hard drive to a data recovery service? Those guys are amazing, I think they are able to recover over 90% of drives

Yes, thanks for asking but they couldn't help me.

 

[bagger]

Carbonate sucks. They will throttle you if you have so much backed up where you will slowly never get anything new backed up.

I use Backblaze and love it.