Comments on: I joined the cloud – do me a favour and join too!

By: Adele Pace

Adele Pace — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:20:10 +0000

Syncing seems better because you could easily wipe out the new instead of the old.

By: Mike from Star Wars Force Trainer

Mike from Star Wars Force Trainer — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:36:16 +0000

I agree that some users should back up their data up in Cloud City were Lando Calrissian resides, but I’m one of the old skool’rs who still loves the external drives.

I can see the benefit for those who travel a lot but until I travel, I’m stuck here in the Degobah System.

I guess I need to get with the times. Great information! I also subscribed to your feed.

Mike.

By: ray

ray — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:13:33 +0000

Plus, with Linux, there are no virus concerns.

Ray

By: AdventureRob

AdventureRob — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:12:26 +0000

Nice find Whilst I’ve not had a hard drive failure for years now, I lost my external hard drive on a train trip this year just after moving all my music (50Gb) off my laptop to it. So am taking precautions where I can.

I have a secure disk connection with my website server (you can set this up in cpanel) which I have a few things backed up on. Spreading it about and having different copies in different places (home desktop, laptop, external hard drives, website server, usb sticks, cloud, google, etc) is the way to go though. If the thought of losing all your information on your primary computer doesn’t bother you then you are doing it right

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:15:44 +0000

That is my problem with the photos also, but I will send at least my most important stuff up online, SY
.-= hospitalera@oes tsetnoc´s wrote recently ..Time is money, don’t waste it! =-.

By: Vi

Vi — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 06:25:23 +0000

Good point about bandwidth. Doesn’t matter which backup method you choose, check how much traffic it using, as if speed will be shaped, because of exceeding you monthly quota, probably non of backups system will work until normal speed is restored.
.-= Vi@Travel Tips´s wrote recently ..Whale watching Sydney: 2009 season whale sightings update =-.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:44 +0000

it is better to have a habbit of backuping the storage section, because we don’t know when something goes wrong it is always better to keep a copy of our data in case of emergency.

By: deevan

deevan — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:47 +0000

I work for an enterprise storage company, but it is surprising that our local desktop computers are not part of the backup system. At least selected folders.

For backup, currently I have local hard drives. Approximately 2.5 TB in total storage as I have videos. That is one reason I am not using the cloud, I am worried about the bandwidth costs. The other reason is that these places do go out of business, so it is good to have a local copy.

By: Vi

Vi — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:35:43 +0000

sync usually already is done by OS and have everything in one place, so you just need simple backup system. Personally I prefer to have as less as possible installed software on my computer, that’s why I first try to use programs I already have. But you right about security, if somebody don’t understand how to to it, they shouldn’t copy their important documents to webhost.

p.s. Lis, sorry about affiliate, but it is not competitor, just really affordable hosting company I found around and nothing to do directly with backup solutions. But it is your blog and you set rules.

By: hospitalera

hospitalera — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:24:55 +0000

@Ben
And that is the reason, we all followed Lis’ link and use now online back up solutions! SY