Who uses online backups?

FinsnFur · February 24, 2013, 06:20:05 PM

And if you do...what do you use?

KySongDog · February 24, 2013, 10:58:55 PM

Backup?? MY hard drive will NEVER die!

(Famous last words

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FinsnFur · February 25, 2013, 05:30:23 AM

very famous

MI VHNTR · February 25, 2013, 07:53:21 PM

I use a Seagate Free Agent Go for my backups. The backup software is included on the drive. Plug it in to a USB port, tell it what you want backed up and let it do its thing. After you set it up the first time, it's all automatic.

FinsnFur · February 25, 2013, 10:20:56 PM

Yeah to back up locally the options are pretty much endless. I'm looking for good online backup so that no matter where I am or what happens here or to my machines... I can still retrieve certain files and documents from an online backup.

CCP · March 03, 2013, 07:08:26 AM

I have 50 gigs of space on Box.com and 5 gigs on Dropbox I like the layout of Dropbox better and use it for smaller most used stuff. I use the Box.com account for permanent files. I also put work pictures and files in share folders that I can send Engineers/Architects links too, so they can view.

Box.com finally came out with an Android app that instantly downloads my phone pictures to a folder. Dropbox has had that feature for a long time. Once a week I go over and put those pictures in individual file folders and delete the ones I don't want. I also put a copy of my time sheets and daily reports on there in folders.

Don't know what the cost of these are, I lucked up and a guy on XDA developers gave me the 50gig account through his company.

Biggest problem I have is remembering to back stuff up and out of all the things I backup when I have a problem seems the thing I need the most I didnt backup.

FinsnFur · March 03, 2013, 09:57:46 AM

Quote from: CCP on March 03, 2013, 07:08:26 AM
Biggest problem I have is remembering to back stuff up and out of all the things I backup when I have a problem seems the thing I need the most I didnt backup.

Yeah, I have to have one that will automatically do this for me. If I had time to gather and upload files myself, I'd put them on my own servers. Right now I'm using Crash Plan which automatically pulls whatever files I select on whatever intervals I select, for $3 a month.
I like it, but it dont let me go up and look at each file if maybe I only wanted one, I think I have to restore them all. I might be wrong, havent had a lot of time to do a whole lot of digging.

CCP · March 03, 2013, 10:21:34 AM

For what you do is way over my head. The bulk of my files are pictures, PDF's and word docks and a few power point docs last.

Can't seem to get either to upload programs correctly.

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