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

[Michael Campbell]

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.

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.



On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:49 PM, gcs8 <gcsviii at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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