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June 30, 2006

List of Backup Utilities, Online and Desktop

Filed under: AllMyData, Amazon S3, Backup, Backupmyblog, Box.net, CLEO, ElephantDrive, FEBO, GoDaddy, Mozy, OmniDrive, Openomony, Streamload, Strongspace, SuperDuper, WinBackup, XDrive, iBackup, iomega, istorage — davie @ 6:26 pm

This makes me horribly sad. If it wasn’t for the 4 day weekend i’d be depressed all day. But if you do anything right now I hope it’s to go out and backup all of your databases. Heck don’t stop there. Make sure to backup your code, documents, pictures, music, EVERYTHING. Harddrive space is cheap, DVD’s are cheap, heck webspace is cheap too… there should be no reason you can’t do a full recovery from any catastrophic failure.

I’ve never used CouchSurfing, but I appreciate them because it offers an all-to-real-reminder that harddrives and computers WILL fail.

Here’s some links to help you in your adventure:

Online Services

  • Amazon S3 - Provides a web service interface which you can communicate with directly. Probably more useful in a programming environment but the type of applications which can be built off of this should be very cool. Uses an interesting pay model. You pay per data tranfered and total data used. $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used. $0.20 per GB of data transferred. So for storing a 5 GB file transfered once it’ll be $.75 + $1 for the first month and $.75 for every additional month. Not bad.
  • AllMyData.com - P2P solution where you store files on other people hard drives and in return they store it on yours. Currently for ever 10 meg you share you get 1 meg free.
  • BackUpMyBlog - Service which helps you backup your mysql based blogs. 10 MB of backup space and each backup is compressed so 10 MB will typically store 30 to 50 daily backups. Free while in beta.
  • Box.net - A very nice solution. You get 1GB of storage for free or 5 GB for $5/mo
  • ElephantDrive - Is working with Amazon S3 and is offering unlimited amount of storage for fee during their beta test.
  • GoDaddy - Get up to 2 GB for $20 a year
  • iBackup - IBackup has been in the top 2 rated online backup solutions for years 2003, 2004 & 2005 by PC Magazine. Provides many different types of plans, starting at the economy plan you can get 5GB for $10/month.
  • iomega iStorage - Different packages available for home or professional. For 5GB for a home account it’ll cost you around $43.00
  • Mozy.com - Still in beta but has won the PC Mag Editor’s Choice Awards. Has 2GB account for free and 30GB for $5/month
  • Omnidrive - Still in private but looks promising.
  • Openonomy - Looks interesting, has a programming API to do some interfacing with the system. Only provides a free 1GB account (for now)
  • Streamload - Provides up to 25 GB for free. Allows you to put all of your digital files online and provides a way to share your videos. Has received many acolades from Time, PC World and Mobile Magazine.
  • Strongspace - Provides an SFTP communications between you and your backups. You get 4GB of space for $8/month.
  • XDrive - Has been featured in a number of publications such as NYTimes, USA Today and Information Week. Provides a free 5GB account for 30 days. After that it’s $10/month

Desktop Applications

  • FEBO and CLEO - Are used to backup all your FireFox extensions.
  • SuperDuper - Mac backup software. It’s a shareware app and it’s $30 to buy.
  • WinBackup - A great desktop backup tool. It’s completely free!

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76 Comments »

  1. Don’t forget rsync.net.

    http://www.rsync.net/

    Comment by robert — June 30, 2006 @ 7:47 pm

  2. For Mac users .Mac - 1 gig for about $8/mo, software integrated w/OS X

    Comment by Steve Jobs — July 1, 2006 @ 3:03 am

  3. Jungle Disk uses S3 to make a backup solution. It runs at cost from S3. Nice deal

    Comment by James Deville — July 1, 2006 @ 3:20 am

  4. What about Nerds Backup powered by Data Deposit Box!

    http://mydata.nerdsbackup.com/ Only 1 cent per mb, and half a cent after 1GB

    Comment by Joseph — July 1, 2006 @ 3:33 am


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  6. I wouldn’t want to backup to a site that didn’t let me specify my own encryption key. Otherwise, you’re giving someone else all your data! Mozy works great and lets me specify my own encryption key. Streamload does not.

    One could encrypt the files before backing them up, but that’s a hassle. Of course, you have to trust the backup provider to actually do the encryption at the client - they could just ignore it, or store the key with your files, or …

    Xdrive never worked reliably for me. Connected is another service not mentioned, but their client software stopped working for me and their support was useless.

    Comment by Chris — July 1, 2006 @ 4:04 am

  7. Cheap backup for home users: NTI Backup now

    http://www.ntibackupnow.com/

    Comment by [GEEKS ARE SEXY] Tech. News — July 1, 2006 @ 4:21 am

  8. For a DIY backup, what about good ol’ Robocopy, or perhaps the excellent Cobian FTP Backup?

    Comment by Tom L — July 1, 2006 @ 7:47 am

  9. Check out Vembu StoreGrid (www.vembu.com). Has all the regular bells and whisltles and some more - in a real neat UI that actually makes backups less of a pain! There’s a free edition too for up to 3 computers in a network! Wish CouchSurfing knew this yesterday. Oh well…

    Comment by Palindrome — July 1, 2006 @ 9:13 am

  10. You also should add Carbonite to your list. $5/mo, unlimited storage

    Comment by Brian Wahoff — July 1, 2006 @ 10:36 am

  11. Geeksquad at Best Buy offers online backup as well

    Comment by NORM — July 1, 2006 @ 10:48 am

  12. Hi,
    Mozy isn’t for free anymore.
    C ya,

    Dragos

    Comment by Dragos.nl — July 1, 2006 @ 12:10 pm

  13. Oeps,
    it is !

    Comment by Dragos.nl — July 1, 2006 @ 12:12 pm

  14. For non-critical data, what about Google? 1GB free for each email address…… Just email everything via attachments.

    Comment by dennis — July 1, 2006 @ 2:03 pm

  15. Hey you Can’t Forget the Best of All, http://WWW.GEEKSQUAD.COM now has a new online backup service they offer, it has some pretty cool features you should checkout

    Comment by JBEES — July 1, 2006 @ 2:09 pm

  16. thanx

    Comment by hamza — July 1, 2006 @ 2:29 pm

  17. Great post. I’ve been looking for a comprehensive resource for online backup facilities and low and behold this post popped up on del.icio.us popular page

    Comment by Peter Brady — July 1, 2006 @ 2:34 pm

  18. You havent mentioned carbonite (www.carbonite.com). Carbonite is cool.
    It is cheap and easy to use. i have been using it for a while.

    Comment by absi — July 1, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

  19. You missed http://www.carbonite.com

    Comment by absi — July 1, 2006 @ 3:00 pm

  20. Try using gmailfs it will turn a gmail account into a drive on your local machine. Great for backing up small important files. There’s also Yahoo briefcase, which is amazing for small backups (30 mb free). As far as software goes try Second Copy, which is a beautiful little program. The best solution here is to set it up to backup critical data to your ipod, since you take the thing with you.

    Comment by Steven — July 1, 2006 @ 3:10 pm

  21. Cobian Backup (http://cobian.se) is free and easy.

    The free Intel Desktop Utilities (http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/software/idu/) contains a free copy of NTI Backup Now! 4.0

    DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives: http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

    Comment by mechmike — July 1, 2006 @ 4:22 pm

  22. Desktop applications:
    * Syncback free version
    * Karen’s Replicator

    Online backup/synchronizing/up&downloading:
    * Foldershare

    Comment by Simus1 — July 1, 2006 @ 4:47 pm

  23. I found an article on Digg that referenced http://www.backupright.com and I have been using them. They have a great front end, fantastic support and it runs on Windows, Mac and Linux. I have found it to be the safest way to backup my data.

    YES it lets you specify your own encryption key as poster number 6 pointed out.

    Comment by steve — July 1, 2006 @ 5:24 pm

  24. You missed http://www.carbonite.com
    I have been using carbonite for a couple of months. It is flawless,
    inexpensive and all you need to do is to set it and forget it.

    Comment by absi — July 1, 2006 @ 6:55 pm

  25. I second the recommendation for SyncBack from http://www.2brightsparks.com . It comes in a freeware version, no nags, no time out, missing only a few features like automatic FTP upload.

    Comment by Tre — July 2, 2006 @ 2:25 am

  26. Carbonite is ok, if you don’t want to use any brainwaves to setup your backup, but it does not give you snapshots of your old files, so if you file becomes corrupt and get backed up, kiss it goodbye on Carbonite, too.

    Mozy is about the very best featured online backup I’ve found, and I can backup all of my important documents, email, finances, etc using its 2GB free service. No other service comes even close to Mozy’s pricing if you want more space. I highly recommend it. http://www.mozy.com

    Comment by bybydayjob — July 2, 2006 @ 6:47 am

  27. Oh, forgot to mention, Carbonite is not unlimited in practice(read the EULA). They throttle you to 500MB per day upload after 50GB, and they can kick you if you are at above average usage for all users.

    Comment by bybydayjob — July 2, 2006 @ 6:56 am

  28. You’re right, bybydayjob, Carbonite is for people who don’t want to use any brainwaves on backup. And guess what - that’s 99% of people. Backup is insurance. You shouldn’t have to think about it.

    Comment by Danh — July 2, 2006 @ 3:13 pm

  29. How can anything be unlimited in practice?

    Comment by absi — July 2, 2006 @ 3:18 pm

  30. Wonderful! Thanks for the compiled list above. So much about all these backup drives. I would suggest the perfect backup is still to spend a couple hundred of quids to get an additional hard disk drive and store all your data.

    Comment by Keith — July 2, 2006 @ 7:42 pm

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    Comment by kasey — July 24, 2006 @ 5:11 pm

  36. There is a new product on the market call BuddyBackup works a treat for me! It is free and you use it like MSN peer to peer!

    http://www.buddybackup.com

    Comment by Dave Smith — August 4, 2006 @ 2:01 pm

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  39. Hi, thanks for the list. Another good service I would recommend is http://www.criticali.co.uk which is very good.

    Comment by Charlie — August 22, 2006 @ 2:05 pm

  40. You should use an automatic online backup tool like Data Deposit Box… It’s not terribly expensive and you can back up as many PCs or servers as you like. Once you set it up, there is nothing to do.

    Comment by Peter — September 6, 2006 @ 6:44 pm

  41. Aol will soon offer 5GB of Xdrive storage for free. All you need to do is create an account, which is now also free.

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  45. Looking for an expert in online data backup, have a look at http://www.securstore.com

    Comment by Alex Eiriksson — December 22, 2006 @ 2:16 pm

  46. Take a look at FileBanc. Supports all OS-es (Win, Mac, Linux, Unix, Netware), server software support (SQL, Exchange, Oracle, MySQL), mapped drives, etc. Enterprise strength features and capabilities at home office prices.

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    Check out BeInSync (http://www.beinsync.com) which is now also offering online backup with 1GB free online storage, and also offering file synchronization, file sharing and remote access all-in-one.

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  53. Check out http://www.perfectbackup.co.uk as they offer a 1GB account free for life, I can backup my mac and windows PC to the same account and I can get about 3GB of my data stored.

    My small business currently backs up to tape, but I will set up another FOC account to backup my Exchange and SQL databases. No more backup hassles.

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    Comment by tamara — February 12, 2008 @ 11:43 am

  66. Take a look at Data Vault http://www.datavaultcorp.com, they provide FTP backup and online backup services. Also, their online backup services supports open files, MS Exchange, SQL Server and Oracle.

    Comment by Charles — February 25, 2008 @ 8:29 pm

  67. Hi there

    Thanks for this post, man. I went out looking for an inexpensive, off-line backup service, and thanks to this post of yours, I found what I was looking for in less than a minute.

    Appreciate it!

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    Comment by Louise — March 21, 2008 @ 8:51 am

  68. If you need a mirror service for the UK or Ireland or you want to keep your data in the UK or Ireland, go to http://www.backupanytime.com
    I did considerable research on this and they are the best (albiet of a limited number of companies) compnay capable of providing this.

    Gene

    Comment by gene thompson — April 4, 2008 @ 5:14 pm

  69. Gene
    I had online backup for three months with another supplier. They were ok but the sql server backup was intermittent and was not being resolved despite lenghty tech support calls. I tried backupanytime and am delighted with the results. My backup has nit missed a beat since being setup in March and I did a successfull test restore without issue.
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  74. I quite like the look of this service http://www.connect.co.uk/onlinebackup - it appears to cost less than some of the others you have listed. And it lets you email too if your server goes haywire. Pretty nifty methinks

    Comment by Tom Horrocks — July 2, 2008 @ 5:02 pm

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  76. Then you may check this one: Littlefish Remote Vault > register for a FREE 1Gb trial
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