If i understood it correct it is mostly pictures? Then how about flickr? i havent read the fineprint, but 25$ for unlimited transfer and storage/year sounds very cheap to me. And you can make everything private so noone else can see it. And it has pretty nice api's for transfer and such.
/Micke 2010/2/14 Steven Herod <steven.he...@gmail.com> > I've seen crash plan and I used DropBox and iDisk with mobile me > > All cloud based backups for me though suffer the same problem, I lack > symmetric bandwidth and enough data allowances in Australia to make > that work for me. > > So for me its 1TB drive and Time Machine. It's cheaper just to have > two drives, one at work, one at home, backup in two places.... > > On Feb 14, 10:42 am, klauer <kla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't heard anyone mention CrashPlan (http://www.crashplan.com), > > which has it's own comparison of pricing terms to its competitorshttp:// > b2.crashplan.com/consumer/features-compare.html > > > > From what it shows, 2TB can be stored at $54/year for one(1) person, > > which is pretty reasonable in comparison to their mentioned > > alternatives (Carbonite, Mozy, Pure Amazon S3). > > > > I've used CrashPlan's free version in the past, and I think the > > interface is pretty stellar, as it allows you to specify what you want > > to back up as opposed to having to do a blanket upload of your entire > > hard drive. > > > > -Nick > > > > On Feb 13, 3:27 am, grydholt <grydh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > Just heard Joe's search for an online backup solution. As I understood > > > him, he does not need instant online access to the files ("I like > > > robots"). My low cost solution would be to buy a large 2TB drive and > > > put it into a Mac (I guess Windows is not an option in this case). The > > > drive would then be used to consolidate all the photos. In other > > > words, all photos from various sources (other laptops, desktops, and > > > various harddrives) should be copied onto this drive. Then open a > > > Carbonite account and backup the photos for a flat $55 a year. The > > > advantage is clearly the price, some of the disadvantages: > > > > > - Can only backup internal drives, you need to copy all photos to > > > this drive > > > - You cannot easily access the data from other places, this is a > > > local backup solution only. If you need access/backups from various > > > computers, you'll need something like dropbox or spideroak, but that's > > > pricy > > > > > Personally, I am running spideroak for all data, but it is running > > > close to my 100GB limit. I plan to split my data into two tiers. One > > > tier is that the data I want to easily share between computers like > > > mp3 files and photos. I'll be able to keep this under 100GB for the > > > foreseeable future. The other tier will be flac files and home videos > > > (which kind of kills the Posse's argument that the normal user does > > > not need TB's of backup). This tier, I plan to backup using something > > > like Carbonite since it has a flat rate. I've set up my parent's > > > computer with Carbonite and it was very user friendly (backup default > > > Windows folders automatically). > > > > > <tinfoil hat on> > > > For Europeans, note that the data will probably be uploaded to the US, > > > and I don't know if Carbonite falls under safe harbour agreements > > > between the U.S. and the E.U. Of course, the data is supposed to be > > > encrypted with your own personal key, but you never know... > > > </tinfoil hat on> > > > > > /grydholt > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
