Comments on: S3, Online Storage & BingoDisk

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:52:57 +0000

I have to echo the comments about Carbonite’s poor support. I had a problem with stalled/failed backups and their “support” consisted of confirming that my computer hadn’t completed a backup in a week. It just so happened that my subscription was expiring this week; the irony is that I wouldn’t have looked for another service and would have forked over another $50 if this support issue hadn’t come up. As it is, I’ve switched to JungleDisk, which will turn out to be a less expensive option for me (I’m backing up <10Gb). Poor support plus the economics of S3 is going to kill these guys.

By: deniese

deniese — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:31:20 +0000

For those who want to try out Mozy’s free plan (2GB): When you use a promo code you get an additional 250 MB. Disclaimer: Me as well when you use the code (c:

link: https://mozy.com/?code=5EEERM

or code: 5EEERM

Thanks,

Deniese

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More WebDAV vista issues troubleshooting — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 06:53:20 +0000

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By: LSF

LSF — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:52:51 +0000

BingoDisk has been down since yesterday and the latest report says it will be back in 24 hours at soonest. I am not impressed.

By: SwitchingToMozy

SwitchingToMozy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:42:11 +0000

Sorry about what happened to you, PHOTOGRAPHER. You didn’t say which service you tried, which would have been helpful. I’ve used Carbonite for the past 18 months have 37Gb stored with them and never lost a thing (though I haven’t needed to restore much). The major services are very competent and I wonder if you chose a smaller player that went belly-up?

For me, it’s time to renew and I’ve decided to switch to Mozy so I can access my home files from work occasionally. But Carbonite has been rock-solid for me. I like that it’s “set and forget”, unless I want to tell it to ignore certain folders that I don’t need backed up.

I’m not looking forward to switching and waiting for all those files to upload to Mozy though!

By: photographer

photographer — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:16:45 +0000

2 years ago I made a mistake of backing up some of my photographs to one of those backup storages. Next thing I know,all date was lost. I was left with nothing! Now I am too careful. Maybe it’s good for some music and stuff,but definitely not anything else

By: Ollie

Ollie — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:21:15 +0000

Peter, I used to use box.net, but then I found mydatabus.com…it’s sooo much better. 5 GB of free storage, 250 MB per file/upload (unlike box’s measly 10MB), 1 GB daily public download bandwidth, plus online image/doc editing, file format conversion, Facebook.com integration, photo album creation/sharing, public file links, e-mail files with no attachment sizes…it really is a one-stop shop for online file hosting/storing. And no software installation.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 09:34:10 +0000

Intertesting to see such a varied response to such a wide range of backup options.

I think where alot of these solutions fall down is when they try and preach to the unconverted. I believe they rather the miss a whole (and wider) band of people that don’t want to be bothered with installing and configuring software (no matter how simple that may be) and could otherwise be ‘introduced’ to online backup in a way that doesn’t involve installing yet another bit of proprietary software – like me.

Give me somewhere I can just backup to using drag and drop WebDAV or some other browser based solution and hell I am more than taken care of.

That’s where I think box.net, bingodisk.com, and ewedrive.com are clear winners for people like me (of which there are a lot more than most backup companies seem to think).

By: tradersvic

tradersvic — Mon, 14 May 2007 16:02:58 +0000

I’ve been using mozy for quite awhile and for me it’s currently the best online solution on the marked. Encryption, multiple file versions (very useful if you changed a file by mistake and didn’t notice it until the next backup has been performed: in this case you are able to restore easily an older version) and partial updates are supported (only the changed part of a large file will be transmitted to the server, which saves time and bandwidth) As mentioned above you get 2 gig for free and if you use or make a referral you even get 256 mb extra. Using a referral is quite easy, just use this link with the promo code inside: https://mozy.com/?ref=Q4AGBK

By: Michael Marmur

Michael Marmur — Wed, 02 May 2007 12:40:35 +0000

http://www.bingodisk.com is a wonderful solution – for MAC users. I am a PC user and tried it – ultimately the company refunded my payment since the product does not work very well in a Windows environment. It is a fantastic solution for MAC users and worth exploring.

By: Lila

Lila — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:38:49 +0000

I’m going to put in a plug for ElephantDrive– http://www.elephantdrive.com. Also using S3, easy to set up, easy to use, and, secure. non-buggy. cost-effective. truly unlimited storage. i have zero complaints with this, and have been using it for about 6 months.

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By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:18:21 +0000

Has anyone checked out Tilana Reserve?

Tilana Reserve…
- protects files securely, off-site
- syncs file between your computers
- includes Web access
- keeps versions when you save
- archives deleted files
- makes it easy to retrieve files
- works in the background

You can use Tilana Reserve on as many computers as you want. The software doesn’t cost anything – just download it for free from the website.

Whenever you create a file, or save changes, Tilana Reserve updates the files to your personal space at the Tilana Reserve off-site data center.

You don’t have to swap out tapes, manage backup disks, or even remember to press a button, like some external backup drives.

When you protect files in Tilana Reserve, you can also sync them between any of your computers on the same account. Every time you save a file, the new version gets protected in the data center, and your other computers automatically get it from there, so they’re always current.

Check it out at http://www.tilana.com

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:06:46 +0000

Thank you for the link to Bingo disk! I’m glad I came back to this older post. I was looking for an inexpensive WebDAV server that didn’t require a web interface for our organization’s Acrobat 8 shared reviews. We don’t need that much space, so the 25 GB version does the job nicely and with the promo code, for only $44 per year. I just needed a WebDAV server that works from the OS X Finder and XP Network places that I didn’t have to host locally…this is perfect. Everything else I looked at charged a higher fee. I was even considering .Mac at one point. Thanks again, boss man. :-)

By: User

User — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:37:29 +0000

I just want to warn users before they get all excited that JungleDisk since it’s still very buggy. It is very Alpha software and has many bugs which can snag you and make uploading GBs a royal pain. It errors out and doesn’t continue, hangs, has caching issues, etc. It is just simply not robust or reliable yet.

Eventually it will become a worldclass client for using S3, but for now consider yourself warned that many people find it to be buggy and it will probably not work for you at one point or another.

The other cheap and cheerful service, Carbonite, works well BUT they have an aweful security policy that leaves your data at great risk. Unless you encrypt your data BEFORE you upload it Carbonite is NOT a safe service to use. Their CEO, DB admin, and who knows all have direct access to your data. If the DB admin get pissed think of how much damage he can do? If their server gets hacked think of how screwed you will be all because Carbonite keeps a database of all the keys to everyone’s data available to their staff.

Do not I repeat do NOT use any service which does not let you encrypt your data with your own private key. S3 offers it both ways but if you’ve even been paying the slightest bit of attention to how invasive the Gov has gotten, you’ll agree that putting your encryption key where a company can get to it is a major no no.