Several months ago now I posted a series of articles about offline backup. Its a topic that more and more people are dealing with. The realisation that you have many gigabytes of digital media that could easily be lost combined with better broadband is prompting a move to off-site backups. So I posted up my [...]
The ongoing saga of an off-site backup! Apologies for posting yet another backup page. There are a few people interested in the outcome, although I suspect even they are bored!
After my terrible experience with memopal, I decided to look at crashplan. Manung Han at Lab49 had a good experience. Crashplan was the next best offer price when I evaluated the first time around. I am going to keep this article short and to the point for fear of overloading syndicated websites like Lab49 with backup pages. I will post updates to this final page as I go.
Day 27 – 31.5Gb uploaded 0.86 Gb/day 0.36 since moving to ADSL2+ I have not managed to upload anything since day 25. The memopal service is terribly unreliable and during this period their support team has not replied to a single email. So today I have decided to try and get them to return my [...]
Memopal backup diary part 2. Brief conclusions for those looking for a summary: BE ISP are the very best. Memopal need to sort out reliability issues before they hit the bigtime. Read on for more information!
Justification I have automated home backups onto a off-line disk. A combination of windows disk mirroring and Linux or Mac scheduled scripts keeps it both simple and automated. I just have to remember to transfer to disk every now and then for longer term snapshots. If you have got this far with your backups your [...]