I have a home office and backup my files regularly to another PC on my
home network, as well as an external drive on the same network. My
concern is fire or theft, and so I am interested in an online backup
service.

I realize that creating CDs or anything else and physically moving
them offsite is a possibility - but there's nowhere to put them - I
don't HAVE an office, and frankly the time and labor involved would
mean I wouldn't do it.

PC Week did a roundup of the various services recently, and they
listed
iBackup (4/5 - their editor's choice)
Connected.com (4/5)
Glorio (3.5/5)
SwapDrive (3.5/5)
Xdrive (3/5)

I have seen one bad reliability/customer service story posted here
recently about Connected - they have a reasonable pricing plan - the
other are a bit much -

Any thoughts about this? Any other ways to go?

Thanks so much,

Steve
http://www.portigal.com

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On 19 Aug 2004 15:19:03 -0700, steve@portigal.com (Steve Portigal)
wrote:

>I have a home office and backup my files regularly to another PC on my
>home network, as well as an external drive on the same network. My
>concern is fire or theft, and so I am interested in an online backup
>service.
>
>I realize that creating CDs or anything else and physically moving
>them offsite is a possibility - but there's nowhere to put them - I
>don't HAVE an office, and frankly the time and labor involved would
>mean I wouldn't do it.

Why not?  Time is minimal.  Use any CD burning software that allows
you to save a job.  Run your job daily or whatever you need, and drop
the CD in the mail to the Post Office Box you just set up.    There
they will remain until you need them (hopefully never).  You can stop
in the PO and clean out your box once in awhile and dump the old ones
or archive them in your basement.

Hal

>
>PC Week did a roundup of the various services recently, and they
>listed
>iBackup (4/5 - their editor's choice)
>Connected.com (4/5)
>Glorio (3.5/5)
>SwapDrive (3.5/5)
>Xdrive (3/5)
>
>I have seen one bad reliability/customer service story posted here
>recently about Connected - they have a reasonable pricing plan - the
>other are a bit much -
>
>Any thoughts about this? Any other ways to go?
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Steve
>http://www.portigal.com

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"Steve Portigal" <steve@portigal.com> wrote in message
news:75970aaa.0408191419.63e4c2d4@posting.google.com...
> PC Week did a roundup of the various services recently, and they
> listed
> iBackup (4/5 - their editor's choice)
> Connected.com (4/5)
> Glorio (3.5/5)
> SwapDrive (3.5/5)
> Xdrive (3/5)
>
> I have seen one bad reliability/customer service story posted here
> recently about Connected - they have a reasonable pricing plan - the
> other are a bit much -
>
> Any thoughts about this? Any other ways to go?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Steve
> http://www.portigal.com

Do you have a URL for that review? I'm looking for a similar solution
myself.

Gary

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> > PC Week did a roundup of the various services recently, and they 
>
http://www.keepmedia.com/pubs/PCMag...04/06/08/462357

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I use and recommend Genie Backup Manager version 6 for offsite ftp
backups.  It supports AES encryption and does a heck of a job
uploading even large files without error.
For FTP storage I use a webhosting site's ftp location as I have found
that FAR cheaper than any other option even if you don't use the
webpage/email features.  My favorite storage location is currently
Vistapages:
http://www.vistapages.com/cgi-bin/a...id=cbiggerstaff
you can get 5gig of space for as low as 6.95 a month if you pay for 2
years not to mention the website/emails/and even mysql databases and a
ton of other stuff.  You may want to keep your eye open as well they
offer new promotions every other day or so and a couple weeks ago I
signed up for only 3.95 a month!  I made sure I signed up for the 2
years to keep the low rate.

As a side note I also really like and recommend (not for offsite
though) Second Copy 2000: http://www.centered.com/ it works far better
than the real time backups I've tried.  It has a ton of options one of
which I use as a SourceSafe type system for my constantly changing
files where you can say how many of the past file iterations to keep.

Chad Biggerstaff
Future Spec., L.L.C.
http://www.FtrSpec.com

On 19 Aug 2004 15:19:03 -0700, steve@portigal.com (Steve Portigal)
wrote:

>I have a home office and backup my files regularly to another PC on my
>home network, as well as an external drive on the same network. My
>concern is fire or theft, and so I am interested in an online backup
>service.
>
>I realize that creating CDs or anything else and physically moving
>them offsite is a possibility - but there's nowhere to put them - I
>don't HAVE an office, and frankly the time and labor involved would
>mean I wouldn't do it.
>
>PC Week did a roundup of the various services recently, and they
>listed
>iBackup (4/5 - their editor's choice)
>Connected.com (4/5)
>Glorio (3.5/5)
>SwapDrive (3.5/5)
>Xdrive (3/5)
>
>I have seen one bad reliability/customer service story posted here
>recently about Connected - they have a reasonable pricing plan - the
>other are a bit much -
>
>Any thoughts about this? Any other ways to go?
>
>Thanks so much,
>
>Steve
>http://www.portigal.com

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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:01:12 -0500, Chad Biggerstaff
<cnbopsrpiazme@kc.rr.com> wrote:


>For FTP storage I use a webhosting site's ftp location as I have found
>that FAR cheaper than any other option even if you don't use the
>webpage/email features.  My favorite storage location is currently
>Vistapages:

/ cut link /

We (at www.pfcorner.nl) offering such @ only 1 euro per GB per month.
With discounts @ longer periodes and/or more storage space.

>you can get 5gig of space for as low as 6.95 a month if you pay for 2
>years not to mention the website/emails/and even mysql databases and a
>ton of other stuff.

If you 'need' webstorage too, no problem. We are open for discussion.
Backing up to tape is free. You only pay for the tape (once, so you
get the owner of the tape). Which means, it is possible to have muchos
GBs stored (some GB online, direct accessable, plus some tapes
available if requested). Technically it it possible to backup/restore
directly to our tapestreamer.

You can try it for free ;-)

Hans, http://www.pfcorner.nl/ (in dutch only).

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