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Crashplan is fairly cheap for unlimited cloud storage. You can also use it to create a free backup server from another computer. Any set of computers with crashplan installed can backup to each...
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Also look at carbonite.com & mozy.com if you're OK with paying for it.
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Ok where I was going with this is, many services treat external hard drives differently from internal hard drives. More than one I know of will either make you pay extra to back them up, and or make...
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This does work, but it has drawbacks. Say you create a 4gb TC Volume to store 2gb of stuff, with room for growth. First you have to dismount the volume from TC for your cloud provider to see it....
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My experiences with a 380GB backup set ...
- Carbonite was good for a while but started throttling the upload bandwidth
- Mozy was good for a while but changed the pricing structure - no longer...
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My old laptop and external hard drive both crapped out at the same time. Just wondering if anyone can help with some good online backup sites to save me a heart attack in the future. I use dropbox...
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well you answered ypu own question google skydrive and amazon
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The above suggestions all work, but I think we can do better if we learn more the situation you are in. As always the more we know the more we can help, details, details, details. . . .
How much...
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I put Backblaze on my computer the day I bought it and never looked back. $5/mo for unlimited.
I never know it's running and it doesn't bug me with spam or offers. I had Carbonite years ago...
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I would look at splitting the data between photos and other stuff that if it got out it would not be as big of a deal as say tax documents.
The other set like the tax documents I would backup to a...
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Yeah you named off three pretty good ones in Skydrive, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Throw in Amazon Cloud and/or doing it yourself by getting cheap webspace and using FTP/rsync and you've got a lot to...
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I think it is not the case with dropbox. (but i am not a comp.sci guy)
dropbox even doesn't have to sync-up all the truecrypt container when only a part of it change.
dropbox can know if...
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Also how about placing the files in a truecrypt or Free OTFE vol. before uploading it to the cloud.
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I went back and looked more at my source and your kind of right if using truecrypt. It does allow the partial uploads, but it has some risks too. Using a tool to do the drobox encryption first would...
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1. Approximately 200 gbs of data ranging from videos, photos, Office/pdf documents.
2. Pretty much one computer. Looking at getting another external hard drive. Some data is stored at my work...