![]() Personally I'm on the Preferred Package, which is probably sufficient to deal with my month to month additions to my backups (pictures and music mostly) but nowhere near what I would need in order to initially set up my offsite backup. Max Limit (monthly): 3 GB down 1 GB up.Max Speed: 512 - 768 Kb down 256 Kb up.Max Limit (monthly): 4 GB down 1 GB up.Max Limit (monthly): 40 GB down 10 GB up.Max Speed: 5 - 9 Mb down 512 Kb - 2 Mb up.Max Limit (monthly): 60 GB down 15 GB up.Max Speed: 10 - 20 Mb down 1 - 2 Mb up.I had to do a bit of research, but pulled directly from Cox Cable's Acceptable Use Policy and Limitations of Service: all essential documents are backed up constantly and exist in several places.Does not require an online rsync server (which seems to cost a lot of money!).I stand to lose 1 week's worth of non-essential documents.depending on how frequently you backup, this determines the window of lost data.Acronis can handle backup/restore directly to/from FTP servers.the incremental backups are handled by Acronis, so it reduces the size/time that my laptop is taken up (usually a couple of hours overnight). ![]() ![]() this avoids having all documents on my laptop which can't fit 1TB anyway, and which is the point of a NAS).Less accessed documents/files that change less frequentlyĤ) Use another PC (my laptop) to run Acronis True Image for reading files across the network and creating incremental backups to an online FTP server Here it is:ġ) Purchased QNAP TS-209 II (this wouldn't make any difference to the solution)Ģ) Use Windows "Offline Files" functionality for essential documentsģ) Backup (2) by configuring Mozy to include the Offline Files Cache directory I figured out a solution that wasn't ideal, but is manageable. And, if you have time to test the upload speed of ED versus other services, it would be great if you could post back here and let us know. It left me flabbergasted.īe prepared for a messy breakup with whichever service you choose. If any of the data packets don't get delivered, it has to start over, either in part or in full. But, to take an example: If you built an ISO file of of CD size (~700MB), you may have to wait 3-4 hours for that to upload. One service may have a faster one than another. What you'll find is that all of these services have a file verification protocol that jams up the works. You should, however, test out the "free accounts" for upload speed, and try the top contenders out for a month. I cannot imagine that other online backup services are significantly faster in their upload rates. But it's really not worth the front-loaded effort. They promise that the delta-sync after you finish the first backup goes much, much faster. I have about 250GB to back up, and after a full week of leaving my laptop running on a T1/T2 campus ethernet line, I was only at 3% done. The problem is that the upload rate is nil. They're working very hard to make it work for users. To their credit, ED's support team is incredibly, incredibly helpful. There are a few other services out there that run as cheap as ED, but ED seemed pretty reliable, running on Amazon's A3 storage platform. I ended up going with ElephantDrive, because Mozy deletes any "missing" files since the last time you synced. My requirements were 1) 1+TB storage, 2) nothing gets deleted unless I approve, 3) cheap, and 4) encrypted. I shopped around quite a lot for online backup, and all I can say is, its time has not yet come. It won't answer your question, but it will give you a necessary warning. I know this is a sleeper of a thread, but I thought I'd pitch in here.
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