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Monthly Archive for November, 2009

Quick review of online backup services

My [quick] personal review of the online backup services listed in Lifehackers Five best online backup tools article.

I’m looking for: cheap, encrypted, ~90GB storage, data that won’t change much once uploaded, data rarely downloaded.

Crash Plan:
- Incremental upload (i.e. can be paused), nice UI.
- Personal encryption key
- 4.50$/month

Mozy:
- Ugly interface + horrible upload process (buggy)
- Personal encryption key
- 5.95$/month

Dropbox:
- Very nice, except;
- Too expensive (9.99$/month)
- 50GB limit

Jungle Disk:
- No incremental upload, rough UI.
- Tedious signup with amazon payments
- Personal encryption key
- Provider selection (amazon or rackspace)
- Pay per GB (.15$/GB up, .17$/GB down)

Carbonite:
- Only local hard drive
- Had to google to find uninstall (shame on you)
- 4.58$/month

So I’m going with Crash Plan…