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    Backup Solution

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by taelrak, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. taelrak

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    General thoughts anyone?

    Online vs. local?

    MozyHome (unlimited) vs. SOS Online Backup (limited, but also has local option included)?

    MozyHome vs. MozyPro vs. SOS Online Backup (home)?

    Other options (idrive, carbonite, etc.)?
     
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  2. Shyster1

    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Local (i.e., backed up to a hard drive you physically possess). Who knows just how safe a remote online backup actually is, either strictly as a backup, or in terms of whether anyone else can snoop around in your backup for private information.

    One option I've used before is Acronis True Home Image 11 (I think the newest version is True Home Image 2009).
     
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    focusfre4k Notebook Evangelist

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    I would do a local backup. just dump an image to your external hard drive and put it in a safe. pull it out once a month and put a new backup on it.
     
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  4. bjcadstuff

    bjcadstuff Notebook Consultant

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    Backups need to be in proportion to the importance of your data. If it is important, then backup multiple ways and locations, and trust yourself more than any online service.
    I have stuff burned onto CD's, on my computer at home and at work, on portable USB hard drives, even on old hard drives that were removed from obsolete machines and are now kept in a drawer.

    I'm considering a NAS for my house, with mirrored drives, supplemented by USB hard drives and I'll probably start burning DVD's as well.

    Some of the software I've written over the past 7 years is right now on about 10 different hard drives and dozens of CD's.
     
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