CNET Forums: Message List - What's your take on online backup services?

I dont know what i would do without it!!!

28 Jan 2013 12:38:05 PST

Haven't used any other service or place but haven't felt like moving to any other provider so far, got it installed on m ...

Give xplode backup a try

18 Jan 2013 21:43:39 PST

Bin using xplodebackup.com now for a while, and im pretty happy with the price and the quick response times for support. ...

Have a look at livedrive

28 Dec 2012 11:40:08 PST

Have a look at Livedrive. A full review can be found at ...

My PC Backup is great!

24 Sep 2012 12:04:03 PDT

I highly recommend My PC backup to backup all the files on your computer. It's cheap, fast, and super easy.
Try it fo ...

Yes

28 Oct 2011 17:06:35 PDT

<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">One of the most important things is you'll have no hardware worries.Also you ...

Store your data online

06 Apr 2011 09:40:28 PDT

I suggest you check out NovaBACKUP at www.novastor.com ...

Let's try this.

04 Jan 2011 13:51:18 PST

1. It was free.
2. It was a backup copy and not storage.

So the trial failed and you lost only your time?
B ...

50GB Free Online backup at adrive----free only eyewash

04 Jan 2011 06:06:59 PST

I tried to upload data on free adrive plan of 50GB.Later , it began to create password problems by not accepting correct ...

I tried one a few years ago. Bad experience

11 Oct 2010 09:14:32 PDT

I don't recall the name of the service I attempted to use but..it was a bad experience from the word go.

First o ...

Update Star (backup of mapped drive)

16 Aug 2010 19:20:10 PDT

Hi David

Thank You for answer.

I need a program, which can take backup of mapped drives as well.

So ...

RE: Update Star Online Backup

16 Aug 2010 08:34:58 PDT

Hello Steffen,

Yes, you can backup files on your external drives attached to your computer. Just configure Update ...

Update Star Online Backup

14 Aug 2010 02:28:43 PDT

For the moment I am using Idrive.com, which works very well.

Before trying Update Star, I would like to know, if ...

Give UpdateStar Online Backup a try

12 Aug 2010 07:41:18 PDT

Hello Bradfern1,

my name is David and I am with UpdateStar, the company which offers UpdateStar Online Backup, a ...

Bad experience with one service

28 Jul 2010 17:58:25 PDT

I tried SOS online backup service. There were too many limitations, SOS software caused problems on my PC, and they ref ...

There is a typo

24 Jun 2010 10:42:05 PDT

I think you meant 50GB of free and not 500GB.
www.adrive.com. Also this will not, from what I can read, synch or keep ...

Free Online storage - My 5 cents worth of input

23 Jun 2010 19:11:38 PDT

You may have already made up your mind on whether use an external storage backup place .
All i have to offer is my ow ...

I too made a decision, and chose Dropbox

19 Jun 2010 06:50:25 PDT

I picked Drobbox. I love the speed of it, and I have it on an HP Laptop running Vista, a MacBook Pro running Snow Leop ...

After a lot of research I chose BackBlaze.

07 May 2010 11:55:45 PDT

I'm usually one of those people who opt for free services, but for backup there isn't one that allows you to back up lar ...

Carbonite.com is (just :)) completely wrong..;)

30 Apr 2010 13:18:09 PDT

Hi, why use a paid service like Carbonite... No reason for that; plenty of free services ARE available! :-D ...

Just another thought on this

03 Apr 2010 20:36:16 PDT

You can use Carbonite if you want. But me, when I think of Carbonite what comes to mind. Is the metal Han Solo was froze ...

Beware of Jungle Disk--No real customer service, wiped data

03 Apr 2010 13:37:57 PDT

I have a very hard time believing this, but it appears that Jungle Disk may have wiped out all our company's data that t ...

We wouldn't want anyone to have access to our data

01 Apr 2010 17:18:22 PDT

Hi all,
we had several discussions at our company about using carbonite or some other online backup service. We have ...

Idrive.com is the best

27 Mar 2010 21:26:46 PDT

Genie backup is very expensive. usd 100,00 per month for 100 GB.

I use Idrive.com, where I pay usd 5,00 for 150 G ...

My BackUp Solution and it works!

27 Mar 2010 10:10:33 PDT

I use Genie Soft's BackUp Manager Pro 8. I've been using it over a year now and has not let me down yet. It's a bit conf ...

Underestimated, perhaps...

14 Mar 2010 18:33:52 PDT

There will always be compromise between security and convenience. There's no disputing that.

Millions of people, ...

I think you have underestimated the risks ...

14 Mar 2010 16:59:21 PDT

Different providers have different methods for handling data, and there are risks to all of the methods.
If the data ...

Perfect example

14 Mar 2010 16:27:33 PDT

I was trying to think of data types that would benefit from online storage when I landed on this comment. This comment a ...

Fire, Theft and Encryption.

12 Mar 2010 21:20:19 PST

What if you have a fire or theft and lose your computer, and external backup drive?

Part of what a remote backup ...

Online backup

12 Mar 2010 19:28:47 PST

I have been in the computer business since 1980, and I have seen countless violations of alleged security that I has mad ...

Waste Of Time

03 Mar 2010 01:49:56 PST

I have to disappoint you, I am not the author of "Sombrero SDG". Though I am an IT engineer myself and I'm ver ...

Perhaps not ...

02 Mar 2010 15:01:37 PST

I'll redact the relevant portion of the policy: It is permissible for members to mention services or products that ar ...

I did get the point. :)

02 Mar 2010 13:11:47 PST
When it is said that no ads are allowed, this especially goes to those posts that contain ads only and have nothing to d ...

I think you missed my main point ...

02 Mar 2010 11:49:22 PST
Your posts SOUND like advertisements for a particular product. Your user ID matches that of the person/company that has ...

Online Backup

02 Mar 2010 11:06:49 PST
Like I said, every solution is to be checked out before someone's made up his mind. Also, when someone criticizes someth ...

I wouldn't try WHS backup over Internet ...

02 Mar 2010 06:01:10 PST
WHS systems can run IIS as a web page server, so they can provide Internet access and remote access to a PC and it is PO ...

WHS and now possibly Netgear Stora

02 Mar 2010 05:06:00 PST
I think the best way to store backup is 1 on a local external HDD or as I do on my WHS HP mediasmart. This is sitting ne ...

Are you sure you don't work for them?

02 Mar 2010 04:35:24 PST
All of the posts about 'Sombrero SDG' sound like a sales pitch. Personally I'm skeptical of that kind of things, especi ...

Actually, it does more than that ...

02 Mar 2010 04:24:21 PST
WHS is useful for local file sharing and backup, but the OS also supports the ability to share over the Internet and to ...

"Sombrero SDG" Backup Solution

01 Mar 2010 23:51:46 PST
Reading thse posts, I see that most of people do not understand what online backup actually is.
Namely, keeping your ...

Just buy a copy of Windows 7

01 Mar 2010 20:03:03 PST
Well, at least 80 percent of Mac users have a copy of Windows installed on their Mac. You can buy a copy of Windows 7 an ...

I'm thinking of Windows Home Server PC (HP) too!

01 Mar 2010 19:57:50 PST
Frankly speaking, $250 is not very expensive. But I think I would not take it in any near future. If I build my own faim ...

Idrive - Ibackup

01 Mar 2010 19:08:01 PST
Strange. There is a big difference in prices. Idrive only charges usd 5 per month for 150 gb, and Ibackup charges 9,95 f ...

So.... what's the answer for Mac users

01 Mar 2010 16:54:54 PST
I'm new to Mac, backing up on a Time Machine, but really want to pack up photos and other things elsewhere (out in some ...

Same company as IDrive

01 Mar 2010 14:04:25 PST
I forgot to mention IBackup comes from the same company as IDrive.

I haven't researched IDrive but i think it wo ...

Been there, but I use IBackup

01 Mar 2010 13:54:42 PST
I've used, or tried, to use Carbonite, Symantec, and of course my own storage in house.

From what I learned and ...

I use Carbonite!

01 Mar 2010 11:45:13 PST
It does the job, okay-ish. But it is very slow and it takes forever to recover your files even with a really fast conne ...

On line data back-up

28 Feb 2010 11:51:18 PST
Before you commit to any online back-up storage please think twice about their assurances for privacy. The Internet is b ...

Fair enough question!!!

28 Feb 2010 11:03:55 PST
Hi, All - This is Sandy C again - the original author of the question. Thank you for all of the wonderful advice. So ...

This is what I did and will do

27 Feb 2010 08:23:04 PST
I, saw only one post where a windows home server was used. It works fabulously great!! I have an HP Mediasmart server an ...

DECISION?

26 Feb 2010 19:27:34 PST
SO, WITH ALL THAT WISDOM, WHAT DID YOU DECIDE TO DO? ...