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

[gcs8]

Mozy wanted to charge me ~2k to hold my data, and I was with them when they
where still unlimited.
On Feb 26, 2012 2:31 PM, "Michael Campbell" <michael.campbell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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>>
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