What I need for remote backup....

[kyrielle]

For anyone trying to suggest alternatives to Carbonite for me - I would love them. I'm not willing to pay TONS more for better service, though, because Carbonite works reliably for backup/restore (it just has this annoying quirk regarding video files, which they're theoretically escalating to fix). I'd be willing to pay maybe double what I pay now, at most.

I currently back up two computers, whose backups are 55 GB and 237 GB respectively. This will drop to one computer but the same size backup in the next few years - I'm gradually consolidating away from the laptop. All I'm interested in is the backup; other services offer syncing between computers/devices, but that's not what I'm looking for here. Just to have my files preserved if my computer turns into a doorstop, and in an off-site backup.

Carbonite charges per computer, so this costs me $110 a year currently. It looks like Mozy would be about the same, but I don't know anything about them; thoughts and impressions? (Sugarsync, which someone suggested, does a LOT more...and would cost me $350 a year at my current backup volumes. Since the one with 237 GB will eventually grow with more photos and videos plus the 55 GB from the other one, and their top plan is 250 GB of storage, I'd simply outgrow them shortly.)

Comments

[susandennis]

When my Carbonite expires, I am going to Mozy for sure. I tried them once - way back when - and went with Carbonite because it finished backing up all my files sooner. At the time, they seemed exactly the same - that was before I found out about Carbonite's insulting customer service.

Plus, my brother is now an authorized Mozy seller. If you use this URL http://www.mozy.com/home/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=45056&m=20&i=87 he'll get a few pennies and do whatever he can to help if you ever need it.

[mdlbear]

Mozy looks very nice; I can't use it because I run Linux almost exclusively here. There are almost certainly apps that use Amazon S3 as a backend; that would probably be marginally cheaper though not as convenient.

[davmoo.livejournal.com]

I've been recently comparing Mozy to Carbonite. The one big difference I see is that, according to what I read on the web, Carbonite begins to throttle your bandwidth when your backup size reaches 250GB. At Mozy, "unlimited" really does mean unlimited.