the Cloud

[Sue]

God I'm confused.

I have been using Carbonite for a few years to back stuff up, but I'm not happy with it any more.

Fox, is your system foolproof ie everything is safe for ever? I have a load of stuff backed up on an external hard drive, but obviously that could fail. Is yours a sort of mixture between that and the Cloud?

I'm not bothered about sharing stuff particularly, I just want to be able to retrieve it if the worst happens and my laptop crashes - documents, photos and music.

[Salsaboy]

Don't worry Quids, I keep the ones featuring you in a special place.

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> What? even, er, THOSE photos?

[ianr]

Whatever external backup you have in your own home is probably just as likely to disappear in any fire or burglary as your primary stuff. So for anything you really value, you want some offsite storage as well, and a notion of how you will set about reinstalling your system and data after a disaster. Anything sensitive can be encrypted first, fairly easily.

[Sue]

Thanks ianr, I wasn't clear whether Fox's suggestion was both a physical system kept in the home and some sort of online backup.

The advantage of Carbonite was that it was easy to use, it backed stuff up automatically without my having to think about it (once the initial upload had been done) and once when I somehow permanently deleted a vital file, God knows how, I was able to reinstall it very easily.

However I then discovered that anything I had previously had on my laptop (and had had backed up on Carbonite) but had transferred to an external hard drive to free up space was no longer being saved on Carbonite, and that if I wanted to back that up as well I had to pay an additional arm and a leg.

Hence I'm looking for something else quite urgently, as my carbonite subscription is about to run out and I don't want to renew it as it has become too expensive for what I want it to do.

[DulwichFox]

Hi Sue

The Iomega Home Cloud. is basically a storage device. 1 Terabyte is 1024 Gbtes

1 terabyte is big enough for 300,000 + songs (?80.00)

4 terabyte devices are available for <?300.00

Once you buy it (?80.00)that's it. You only pay ?9.00 p/a for a dedicated domain name that you can access anywhere.

password protected.

It sits in your Home so is safe. (No Remote Storage ) You can upload what you like.

Good that you data is not stuck on a server in some unknown location.

Comes with Quick Protect so you can select the files/folders on your PC that you want to save

each time you update them. You can keep several versions of the same file so you can revert back to an older version.*

Useful if you update and make mistakes

You can also 'invite' people on to your device.

When you do this an email is sent to that person with an access code.

They will have to download the Iomega Manager Console and enter the code. (One Off)

Or you can add them as a User and give them Full/ Limited access

You have full control. And does not cost you anything.

The Cloud is yours.

http://iomegacloud.com/landing_page.php

Fox

[Salsaboy]

Unless your house burns down with your Iomega Home Cloud in it.

[Loz]

Which is why something like an IOMEGA (or my QNAP-T212) but backed up to a cloud provider is the best of both worlds. The QNAP having the extra advantage of taking two disks you can mirror so a single disk failure doesn't matter.

Better versions of the QNAP take four disks you can RAID.

[DulwichFox]

The Dillema is..

Anything Valuable you may wish to keep Remotely. In case there is a fire ??

Anything more sensitive you may not want to store remotely.

Hackers are more likely to hack remote Commercial Servers than your Little Home Cloud with all your

baby's and Pet pics..

I do not store much. or really need to store much. I bought it on a whim as I like Techy things.

Set up Apple icloud with my iPod Touch but have no real use for it.

Handy if you get mugged. If you are quick, you can take a pic of your attacker and it's off to the

Cloud to be retrieved later.

Fox