Comments on: Five Best Online Backup Tools

By: mattias

mattias — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:26:50 +0000

+1 for spideroak.
SpiderOak is the only sync/backup provider that I know of which has client side encryption, which means it is the _only_ truly safe cloud storage solution on the open market. I sync several computers with my account and the only thing I am missing is a portable app, which support has said that they are working on :)

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:57:49 +0000

A company that is not mentioned on this list that should be is Egnyte. Egnyte has a great interface with a great solution.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:53:46 +0000

Go CrashPlan! I back up with it locally to a 2nd internal hard drive plus across the ‘net to a friend’s PC (with him backing up to me too).

No monthly fees and if I had to restore 100Gb of stuff I could wander over to my friends place and restore it (with my password) to a local HDD then wander home – faster than downloading 100Gb of data…

Plus they have an unlimited online subscription too if you have no friends :-)

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:49 +0000

As for me I use Syncmate in order to backup mac data. This tool is not actually a backup software. In fact Syncmate allows syncing mac with different devices – computers, mobile devices, psp, google account, etc. I used it before in order to sync mac and my HTC, but they’ve added backup option recently so now I use it for backup as well.

Details are here http://www.sync-mac.com/syncmate-features.html

By: Cameron Watson

Cameron Watson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:18:03 +0000

I’d like to vote for BackBlaze http://www.backblaze.com

For $5 USD per month, I’ve got a complete offsite backup of every file on my computer, which I can download for free or have it shipped on a hard drive to me. Currently I have over 300GB worth of precious photos backed up. I never have to worry about data loss in the case of theft, fire or hardware failure.

Backblaze works very much like Time Machine on a Mac, it backs up everything by default so that you won’t lose anything. You can always add exclusions if you like.

They provide a 14 day trial to get started and see how it goes. I think $5 a month is cheap for the peace of mind.

By: Sébastien Willemijns

Sébastien Willemijns — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:27:28 +0000

carbonite has lost 50 to 73 accounts :)

http://www.willemijns.com/backup.htm#paid list all of them…

By: Quinten Van Der Werf

Quinten Van Der Werf — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:14:45 +0000

My vote goes heartily to Dropbox. All my documents are stored there. My multimedia files are managed with a USB portable drive for backups. But for docs, Dropbox is fantastic. As soon as I make a change on one computer it is updated on all three of my other computers. And the best thing is that I don’t have to remember to do backups or wait for them to complete. Can’t rate this highly enough – get it and use the 2GB for free for all your crucial docs!

By: James

James — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:05:45 +0000

You failed to mention Spideroak, which for me easily rates among the best online backup providers. The features which make Spideroak shine are cross platform support, security and fault tolerance. I’m surprised you didn’t rate it a mention.

By: Zander

Zander — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:52:23 +0000

Aaron, quite a few ISP’s still offer unlimited uploads (most Internode plans for example), so these services could be useful for a lot of users. However, if you needed to recover an entire drive containing hundreds of gigabytes of files from an online backup, that’s where you would run into trouble! I’m guessing that’s why CrashPlan lets you order a hard copy of your data…

By: Trent

Trent — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:18:09 +0000

Highly recommend signing up with the US site for Carbonite or Mozy. The price is MUCH cheaper and with the AU dollar so good now you can get 2 or 3 years for a great price.