Comments on: Mozy vs. Carbonite: Mac Backup Smackdown

By: Ben T.

Ben T. — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:12:56 +0000

Blind hate is a cruel master. What does a company’s choice of advertising have on the usefulness of its product?

By: Paul Blackman

Paul Blackman — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:09:54 +0000

Sorry, your comments loose all credibility when you base your opinion on who advertises the product. Stick to the facts related to the product and maybe I will believe you.
I have used Carbonite for over a year and found it to be great.

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:58:46 +0000

JungleDisk is a Rackspace owned product/service that uses either Amazon S3 or RackSpace Cloud files for online storage AND backup.

By: Is Backup on Apple’s Back Burner or Simply Abandoned? | PHP Web developer, Robert Kern

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:45:00 +0000

[...] not off-site and don’t protect you against an on-site disaster. When I previously covered some online off-site backup solutions, Apple’s backup utility was not one of them.” – by Dave Greenbaum via The Apple [...]

By: AKPK

AKPK — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:30:32 +0000

I use Amazon s3 for backing up my data. I first encrypt data using “truecrypt” and then upload data on amazon s3 using “cyberduck” [It is a mac client you can download from cyberduck.ch ..you can download bunch of free utilities for uploading/downloading data to/from amazon ].

It costs only few cents per month to use amazon s3 webservices. Private encryption of my files gives me peace of mind. I believe amazon will release some client of their own to upload/download files in future.

By: Is Backup On Apple’s Back Burner or Simply Abandoned?

Is Backup On Apple’s Back Burner or Simply Abandoned? — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:01:05 +0000

[...] off-site and don’t protect you against an on-site disaster. When I previously covered some online off-site backup solutions, Apple’s backup utility was not one of [...]

By: George Worley

George Worley — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:51:03 +0000

Carbinite is out of the running because they failed to backup my external drives When I complained, they said it was by design and I need to move everything to the internal hard drive…. Well that is kind of hard since I have 100 GB internal hard drive and a 500 GB external HD with about 300 GB of music on it. Mozy is very slow. Elephant is too costly plus will not backup my INBOX as it is over 2 GB on three acounts.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:56:02 +0000

I don’t think this is a problem at all, if it worked the way you’d like it to eventually more of your storage would be files you’ve deleted in the past years than ones you currently have on your computer and actually want to keep. If you don’t notice that you deleted a file then you need to pay more attention to what you’re doing in my opinion.

By: doug jones

doug jones — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:06:09 +0000

Many of the problems with managing large files via SaaS model solutions revolve around bandwidth limitations (especially on upload). Storage is extremely cheap – it is the access that is expensive. If you are looking to work a TB of files from a remote location as if it were on your local desktop you need a dedicated bandwidth connection 10 MB/s, 100 MB/s, etc. to the datacenter where your files are stored. But if what you are really looking to do is preserve 99% of the files and only access the most current files on a regular basis there are other solutions like manually delivering the files via removable/portable drives and then making them retrievable via the internet – existing bandwidth connections are often sufficient. Spansafe is a solution you may consider as we have several partnerships with bandwidth providers to offer affordable point-to-point options and a variety of solutions designed for transfer and access to large files.

By: Abraham Watts

Abraham Watts — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:18:05 +0000

Currently I am using BackupandShare.com for my pc backup. It is a great service for personal use or people looking for inexpensive online backup. It is very simple to use with features like incremental automatic and scheduled backup. With them I am getting unlimited backup space and mobile access too. I don’t think other services are providing all these features.

By: Wayne Hamilton

Wayne Hamilton — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:10:43 +0000

I have never used online backup service but now wish to try one, which is in affordable prize and reliable for my data. So with BackupandShare . com, can I say I am at the right place?

By: Abraham Watts

Abraham Watts — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:14:52 +0000

I had visited BackupandShare.com website and found the product interesting and useful.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:26:48 +0000

sorry, forgot to include the link

http://www.netcdp.com

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:25:54 +0000

in case anyone is looking for Windows only online backup, we have had great experience with NetCDP, absolutely care free after setup. We’ve tried many before we found it recently!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:34:41 +0000

Egnyte is awesome. I did their demo and free trial and it seems like a great solution. A lot of positive reviews. I googled egnyte and it looks like they got $6mm in funding this year. They are great with PC, Mac, Netboooks and iphone.

http://www.egnyte.com/

By: Chet

Chet — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 18:30:36 +0000

I wanted to mention egnyte and see if anyone has reviewed their product. From what I can see egnte has better features then mozy and carbonite. Looking for others comments…

By: teetotaler

teetotaler — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:57:22 +0000

I’ve tried a few different services over the past year and so far have found these the best based on ease of use and reliability: a) DropBox - ‘Instant’ online backup - Very ease to use and is reliable - The files can be accessed online via their portal when I am traveling - Only negative issue is that it comes with 2GB for free and upgrades are expensive. b) Wuala This is a whole new concept in online storage, need extra space but don’t want to pay for it? Then you can get online storage by sharing any extra disk space you have on your hard drive! I use both and the combination has worked well for me.

By: Raymond Spencer

Raymond Spencer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:52:49 +0000

I have just switched to ‘www.BackupandShare.com’ for online backup. I am currently using a free version of BackupandShare.com and it is working just fine. I can take incremental backup either daily or weekly as per my schedule.

With Backupandshare.com windows mobile Backup solution, comes free. I can take backup of my windows mobile version for 5.0. I was looking out for a backup solution for 5.0 version and was not able to find one for taking online backups. This solution met my needs.

No wonder they are the latest topper in http://www.top10onlinebackup.com/ list.

By: Matthew Dornquast

Matthew Dornquast — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:27:39 +0000

Check out the latest issue of MacWorld! They prefer CrashPlan over 7 other vendors including Mozy and Carbonite. Not sure why the apple blog didn’t include CrashPlan – it’s been available on the Mac far longer than Mozy or Carbonite.

http://www.macworld.com/article/142606/2009/09/online_backup.html

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:49:08 +0000

Crashplan! I am very pleased with Crashplan. It’s not perfect, but I love that I can run it on Mac, Linux, Windows, and now even Solaris. And I like the file delta based backups and data deduplication. (on the Crashplan+ version) And yes, now they have unlimited online backup to Crashplan Central, but remember you can send your data to multiple destinations, locally (USB or LAN) or offsite to a friend for free, in addition to their Central servers.

Do these other systems use in-file delta backups? (like Rsync?) I don’t see that on the Carbonite site, nor on the Backblaze one. Have not looked at Mozy yet. Maybe they do but just don’t advertise it. It’s the main reason I chose Crashplan for myself and my clients. But also because I could stick a huge drive in a friends computer and send all my backups there for free, pre-seeded with my data too. Crashplan is also really easy to use and restore from. And I even use it on a couple servers to get their shared files offsite.

There is one thing I wish it did have though, backup sets. You can only make one backup set, and thats the main job that runs continuously, to as many destinations as you like.

Why when I see reviews, I don’t see much on Crashplan? To me, it looks better than Carbonite and Mozy, though I’ve not used either of the two so can’t say for sure. Anyway, Crashplan is worth a look, check it out.