I'll admit that I bought a long term plan with them when it was unlimited, so I'm still under that, and will change when the contract is up due to my volume.<div><br>That said, what *I* do won't be appropriate for what the OP was asking about, which was backup for the non-technical user with limited volume, on Windows. For that, Mozy/Carbonite work great. I haven't used crashplan so I can't comment on that one. And there's no way I'd want to foist my full-on backup solution on anyone that doesn't understand ssh, rsync, cron, and the like; which is what it sounded like where the OP's relatives are.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM, gcs8 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcsviii@gmail.com">gcsviii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Mozy wanted to charge me ~2k to hold my data, and I was with them when they where still unlimited. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 26, 2012 2:31 PM, "Michael Campbell" <<a href="mailto:michael.campbell@gmail.com" target="_blank">michael.campbell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p>Same here. I've been very happy with Mozy. Totally hands off and rock solid. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 25, 2012 6:56 PM, "Stephen Haywood" <<a href="mailto:stephen@averagesecurityguy.info" target="_blank">stephen@averagesecurityguy.info</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I use Mozy home edition from EMC. It works great and it's relatively inexpensive. I pay $9.99 a month for 125GB of backup. I think they have smaller plans as well. As far as ease of use. I set it up on my Mac and I just let it run. Every so often I log into the web site and make sure my files are there and I try to download a copy to test the restore. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:43 PM, John Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:j@intte.com" target="_blank">j@intte.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I have some older relatives who could use a better backup solution for<br>
their work files. They work from home and mostly use office files, which<br>
are not huge. Yes they are running windows.<br>
<br>
So, there are two things I am considering, remote backup to one of the<br>
many services available, and/or a utility to copy the contents of their<br>
work folder on the laptop over to a usb hard drive in the background.<br>
<br>
Any personal experience/recommendations? It ideally should be something<br>
that I could set up on the laptop and not worry about unless they have a<br>
crash on the laptop itself. If it takes regular maintenance on their end<br>
it might not work out.<br>
<br>
If I have the files on the laptop syncing to a hard drive do I have to<br>
worry about unfortunate deletions propagating over?<br>
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