Comments on: Amazon S3 as Personal Data Backup Option

By: JoeO

JoeO — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:51:05 +0000

Check out mozy.com $4.95 a month for unlimited data.

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Web Worker Daily » Archive Spring Cleaning for the Web Worker « — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:59:52 +0000

[...] disaster plan. Then pick a backup solution and do it. We’ve looked at solutions including Amazon S3, BeInSync, and CrashPlan, as well as asked readers what they [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:11:29 +0000

The number of new online backup suppliers is growing daily and the variation in service and price is wide and complicated. My advice is chose carefully and soon. Online (when implemented correctly) is metaphorically the only way to go and in time this will be literal as local media becomes larger, faster, cheaper and more unreliable. I am with http://www.backupanytime.com and have used the service for over a year. I also have a mozy account for less crucial stuff but with the price of commercial options coming down per gig all the time I reckon I will use backupanytime.com for everything in time to come.

Andy

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Open Thread: What’s Your Backup Strategy? « Web Worker Daily — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:00:50 +0000

[...] talked a lot about backup options in past months. You can go offsite with a service like Amazon S3 or Mozy. If you’ve upgraded to Leopard, there’s the shiny new Time Machine. You can [...]

By: Reuven Cohen

Reuven Cohen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:29:59 +0000

Check our S3 backed file system, ElasticDrive. http://www.elasticdrive.com

By: Vinod

Vinod — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:48:06 +0000

JungleDisk is NO more free.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:17:12 +0000

Has anyone checked out Tilana Reserve?

Tilana Reserve…
- protects files securely, off-site
- syncs file between your computers
- includes Web access
- keeps versions when you save
- archives deleted files
- makes it easy to retrieve files
- works in the background

You can use Tilana Reserve on as many computers as you want. The software doesn’t cost anything – just download it for free from the website.

Whenever you create a file, or save changes, Tilana Reserve updates the files to your personal space at the Tilana Reserve off-site data center.

You don’t have to swap out tapes, manage backup disks, or even remember to press a button, like some external backup drives.

When you protect files in Tilana Reserve, you can also sync them between any of your computers on the same account. Every time you save a file, the new version gets protected in the data center, and your other computers automatically get it from there, so they’re always current.

Check it out at http://www.tilana.com

By: Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive S3, Online Storage & Data Details «

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 18:07:08 +0000

[...] Our previous post on using Amazon S3 storage service as a personal back-up option was quite popular. Though many pointed out that backing to that service wasn’t all that easy. Jeremy Zawodny has come up with a list of popular tools to help you with all that. Of the lot, the best one from ease of use standpoint seems to be JungleDisk. [...]

By: Lo Toney

Lo Toney — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:32:43 +0000

i use s3 with jungle disk and have no problems. at first, i went out and bought an expensive back up drive only to think about a fire and decided that i needed to use cloud storage instead.

you cannot beat the price of amazon’s s3 (jungle drive is free to use). in fact, my bill for last month was as follows: i transferred .267 gb worth of data, which cost $0.06 and my total storage was 5.095 gb, which cost $0.77 to host for a grand total of $0.83 for the month. impossible to beat that price.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 08:56:44 +0000

I use Dreamhost too. For my My Pictures folder. The good thing about that is that it’s ok if I forget to backup now and then (I do it manually with FTP). And I have 200G of space available, which is more than my laptop harddrive.

For my My Business folder I use Mozy. It’s free, and every day when I come back to the computer there’s that reassuring “Your files have been backed up” dialog box. It really makes me feel great :) Because it’s the My Business folder (mostly Word docs), I haven;’t run into the free size limitation yet.