July 23, 2009 at 22:57Online backup
Some time ago, I imagined that my entire collection of music, which I laid out on daddies, as well as a bunch of pictures taken and sweet to my soul, would suddenly disappear with a dead hard drive. After that I had to urgently attend to the search for a suitable online backup service. The requirements for myself are as follows:
Many services met these requirements, but not one completely. So, I’ll tell you a little about the three that attracted the most.
My current choice.
In my opinion, the most popular service of all. Has clients for Pc and Mac, gives an unlimited space for home users for $ 5 per month. It is inexpensive and also backup occurs at high speed, up to 2 megabits. Support is adequate, communicates via live chat. You can recover files through the web interface.
I did not like the high memory consumption and brakes on my not very new laptop. Approximately 30,000 files took at least 200 megabytes. With no settings, I did not achieve a decrease. In addition, backing up data on more than one computer will cost an extra 5 bucks for a “license”.
Another attractive service, though not so famous. It does not have such a thick client as Mozy, unlimited space and most importantly, you can connect multiple computers to one account. There is a negative side - not a high backup speed (I ranged around 600 kilobits).
I have not tried it, but from all the others it stands out with extremely interesting conditions. The place is unlimited (there is another tariff for 50 GB.), It allows you to fumble files, it is hooked up as a local disk, there is ftp access, video and audio player. In general, this is not only a backup, but also an online repository of your data. At first glance, there is only one drawback - this is 130 (or 56) bucks a year, and without the possibility of payment on a monthly basis. I plan to switch to it.
In order not to stretch the post, I made a summary plate of online backups.
I didn’t include services that positioned themselves for business and those whose prices were absolutely wild. Questions indicated that I did not find on the sites.
I will be glad to your comments and additions to it.
- Unlimited place
- Cross-platform
- Ability to use multiple computers
- Preferably low cost
Many services met these requirements, but not one completely. So, I’ll tell you a little about the three that attracted the most.
Mozy
My current choice.
In my opinion, the most popular service of all. Has clients for Pc and Mac, gives an unlimited space for home users for $ 5 per month. It is inexpensive and also backup occurs at high speed, up to 2 megabits. Support is adequate, communicates via live chat. You can recover files through the web interface.
I did not like the high memory consumption and brakes on my not very new laptop. Approximately 30,000 files took at least 200 megabytes. With no settings, I did not achieve a decrease. In addition, backing up data on more than one computer will cost an extra 5 bucks for a “license”.
Backblaze
Another attractive service, though not so famous. It does not have such a thick client as Mozy, unlimited space and most importantly, you can connect multiple computers to one account. There is a negative side - not a high backup speed (I ranged around 600 kilobits).
Livedrive
I have not tried it, but from all the others it stands out with extremely interesting conditions. The place is unlimited (there is another tariff for 50 GB.), It allows you to fumble files, it is hooked up as a local disk, there is ftp access, video and audio player. In general, this is not only a backup, but also an online repository of your data. At first glance, there is only one drawback - this is 130 (or 56) bucks a year, and without the possibility of payment on a monthly basis. I plan to switch to it.
In order not to stretch the post, I made a summary plate of online backups.
I didn’t include services that positioned themselves for business and those whose prices were absolutely wild. Questions indicated that I did not find on the sites.
I will be glad to your comments and additions to it.
| Name | Volume (GB) | Client | Cost in dollars | Number of computers | Additionally | ||||
| Free | Paid | Win | Mac | Linux | month | year | |||
| Syncplicity | 2 | fifty | + | + | To the developer. | 10 | 99 | Unlimited | |
| Mozy | 2 | Unlimited | + | + | - | 5 | 55 | 5 licenses for each | Fast backup (noticed up to 2 mb / s) High memory consumption with a large number of files (~ 200 mb) |
| Backblaze | - | Unlimited | + | + | They said that there are rudiments, but hardly | 5 | fifty | Unlimited | Low backup speed (less than 1 mb / s) |
| Carbonite | - | Unlimited | + | + | - | - | 55 | Unlimited license for each | |
| Livedrive | - | 100 Unlimited | + | ? | see add. | - | 56 130 | 1 Unlimited | There is no client for Linux, but there is ftp access. File sharing. Document editor, video player, iTunes library, mobile version. Dear |
| iDrive | 2 | 150 | + | + | - | 5 | fifty | 5 | |
| SOS Online Backup | - | 2-15 | + | ? | ? | - | 20-50 | Unlimited | |
| Elephantdrive | 1 | Unlimited | + | + | + | 5 10 | 50 100 | 1 4 | Java client |
| Hugedrive | 0.5 | 10 | + | + | - | ? | ? | 2 | I did not find information about the pro version on the site |
| Box.net | 1 | 5 30+ | - | - | - | 8 15 | - | ||
| Crashplan | - | Unlimited | + | + | + | 0.1 per GB. | - | 1 (?) | Free client does not include online backup |
| Keepit | - | Norg. Unlimited (see price) | + | To the developer. | To the developer. | 5 4 + 0.5 per GB. | 60 | 1 3.95 lysis for each | |
| Sugarsync | 2 | 30-250 | + | + | - | 5-25 | 50-250 | Unlimited | |
| Adrive | fifty | 50-1000 | + | + | + | 7-132 | 69.50-1320 | Unlimited | |
| Wixi | 3 | Unlimited | + | + | + | 5 | 40 | Unlimited (?) | |
| Allmydata | - | Unlimited | + | + | - | 10 | 100 | Unlimited license for each | |
| Backupight | - | 25-1000 Unlimited | + | + | + | 15-300 | 300-3000 | 1 Unlimited | |
| Diino | - | Unlimited | + | + | + | - | 49 | Unlimited (?) | Java client Give 100 GB in addition to backup as online storage |
| Jungle disk | - | Unlimited (see price) | + | + | + | 2 + 0.15 per GB. | - | Unlimited | |
| Memopal | - | 150 250 | + | To the developer. | To the developer. | - | 68.50 96.50 | 10 | |
| Myothertherdrive | 2 | 100 500 | + | + | + | 5 10 | 55 110 | Unlimited | Java client |
| Confiture | 0.1 | 2-200 | + | ? | ? | 1-20 | 10-240 | ? | |
| Skydrive | 25 | - | ? | - | - | - | - | - | |