[ale] [OT] Best remote/local backup for less technical?

[Michael Campbell]

Same here. I've been very happy with Mozy. Totally hands off and rock
solid.
On Feb 25, 2012 6:56 PM, "Stephen Haywood" <stephen at averagesecurityguy.info>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 5:43 PM, John Anderson <j at intte.com> wrote:
>
>> I have some older relatives who could use a better backup solution for
>> their work files. They work from home and mostly use office files, which
>> are not huge. Yes they are running windows.
>>
>> So, there are two things I am considering, remote backup to one of the
>> many services available, and/or a utility to copy the contents of their
>> work folder on the laptop over to a usb hard drive in the background.
>>
>> Any personal experience/recommendations? It ideally should be something
>> that I could set up on the laptop and not worry about unless they have a
>> crash on the laptop itself. If it takes regular maintenance on their end
>> it might not work out.
>>
>> If I have the files on the laptop syncing to a hard drive do I have to
>> worry about unfortunate deletions propagating over?
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