Re: Online storage?

Frank Arthur <Art@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It is entirely unreasonable to have "unlimited" storage nor has any
facility the availability of "unlimited" storage. Think about it.
Would you expect anyone to store a thousand gigabytes of your files?
Or a million gigabytes?

Sure they do. Mozy is the one I use. Unlimited storage for $50/year.

The upper limit is set by your upload speed, not by the service. I have
roughly 350GB stored there, but it took me 3 months of cable speed to
get it there.

Now, of course, it just keeps syncing the targeted folders every night,
including adding new photos (or tax documents or music -- the three
categories I have on Mozy) as they arrive.

Note that i do NOT recommend using Mozy or any other service as a
primary backup. It is a great secondary backup though. If my house
burns down or is burglarized, I have the last backup I took offsite
(about once every 3 months I put a USB drive into my bank safe deposit
vault and rotate out the prior one).

Should I ever need that full backup (house burns down), I can send Mozy
a drive and they will copy my stuff onto it for a fairly small fee.

--
- Burt Johnson
MindStorm, Inc.
http://www.mindstorm-inc.com/software.html
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