Backing up to the cloud

[Rave]

I am going to start doing it. You just never know.

R u doing it and if so with who?

Drop box is free but it only allows 2gb

Amazon is pennies per gb per month.. I may just go with them as longbas it is reliable.

Any others?

[davepermen]

I've no reason to ever trust the cloud more than myself, so I do my backups locally, hosting them at systems of my friends, my parents, etc.. and, it's free, too

[macmurphy]

i already back up to another internal drive then back up the back ups to an external drive.
i think i'm covered.
although my propensity for paranoia could convince me to take further measures..

[Rave]

Paranoid is my middle name
I have 2 other macs which I back up to and a couple of external drives. However...

[refuuj]

i use crashplan and love it. unlimited storage and it keeps multiple versions of files so u can restore versions of a file that is older than the most recent. life saver. especially if u ever decided u weren't happy with the database tag changes u made in maschine or kore like i did.

[crumhorn]

Can't beat Amazon S3 for reliability (99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability). They store in multiple redundant locations 15c/GB/Month for storage + 15c to transfer 1GB in or out. but if it's just a backup you'll probably never read it anyway.

[davepermen]

Paranoid is my middle name
I have 2 other macs which I back up to and a couple of external drives. However...

you're paranoid and still consider trusting the cloud? highly illogical, you are

[Simbosan]

Another online one:
http://www.carbonite.co.uk/

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[davepermen]

Point being: Wasn't "cloud" supposed to mean redundancy and as such shared availability? If something goes down the other takes over? Thats what they advertise; its not what they deliver.

it means mainly one thing: business acceptation to not sell applications but services. take away every form of control from the user doing it all externally. and then selling and reselling till the end of everything. so money for nothing, and chicks for free.

the cloud has zero gain for us, it's nothing you can't have without. buy a nas, give it to a friend, connect it to the web with dyndns, and backup to it, or something.

i personally use windows home servers everywhere, and am in the works of setting them up to sync over internet. no need to rely on anything out of my country, away from my isp, away from my hands. i want to be able to access my backups in the worst case by walking to the backup system, taking out the disk or what ever, and plug it into my system.

for mac, i would just use time capsule. and from time to time bring a copy to your parents. reason to visit the parents from time to time regularly and they "save your stuff", makes them proud.