I came across this via The Atlantic's print edition, not via any of the many blogs I track. Odd.
Carbonite Online Backup is XP only, but the price is right. $50 a year for "unlimited" (really?) backup.
If it were OS X as well I'd have signed up by now, but no matter -- the $50 price point is the key. At long last, online backup is going mainstream. It's the only way to go, but expect restores to be unbelievably slow and tedious for sometime. It can't be the only backup solution, but it's a good companion to backup to an onsite external hard drive.
Take a look at IBackup. PC World recently rated it as the `best all-round backup service’ in a review. UK’s best selling Internet mag ‘Webuser’ has selected IBackup for its ‘webuser gold award’.
ReplyDeleteIBackup has a large number of powerful features for easy backups and restores of critical data.
IBackup for Windows can do interactive backup and restore and also schedule regular online backups for Windows desktops, laptops and servers. IBackup accounts are compatible with most FTP clients on most platforms providing a powerful flexible tool to transfer files. IBackup supports backups for UNIX and Linux-based computers using rsync.
'IDrive' enables you to map the IBackup online storage account as a local drive on your computer. You can then drag-and-drop, edit and save files in your online backup account using IDrive. Backing up multimedia files is very easy with IBackup. I use their application called 'IDrive Multimedia' for this purpose. All that is needed is to simply move the multimedia files to the IBackup account and then play them with IDrive Multimedia. You will get instant streaming and you can do fast forward also.
You can share files and folders by creating sharable links with Web-Manager and emailing these links to others. You can also password protect your files and folders, so that they can only be viewed by people who are supposed to view them. You can even `privately share’ data instantly with another IBackup user with Web-Manager. The private share feature can be disabled at any time.
IBackup has several account options for personal, business and enterprise customers. You can also try other IBackup applications like IBackup Professional, which provides a secure, efficient, reliable, cost effective and easy to use Internet-based backup solution. Encryption in this application is based on a user-defined key so that the data stored on IBackup Professional servers cannot be decrypted by anybody other than you. The backed up files are stored by default in the encrypted form using AES 256-bit encryption and automatically decrypted during restores.