Comments on: Remote data backup service review

By: TheMeetingGuy

TheMeetingGuy — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:17:12 +0000

I've been trying to backup 8 gig using Mozy, and it's like someone has rammed bamboo under my fingernails. It takes days, and fails somewhere in the middle. Does anyone have some pointers for me? Thanks, I need the help at this point. - David dasani25@hotmail.com

By: rw

rw — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:12:50 +0000

I like Idrive, because it is the fastest online backup, only Dropbox is faster but also more expensive. That every think is in the IDriveE.ini file can also be nice, when you store it on a save place you have always all parameters back and your “encrypted” password and data encryption key and userid

By: tmarkiewicz

tmarkiewicz — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:25:33 +0000

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm actually trying out the new Backblaze service for automated backups. No verdict yet, but it appears pretty slick.

By: tmarkiewicz

tmarkiewicz — Wed, 20 May 2009 12:25:33 +0000

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'm actually trying out the new Backblaze service for automated backups. No verdict yet, but it appears pretty slick.

By: Vern

Vern — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:01:32 +0000

I have had Carbonite backup for a year and my computer crashed
early this year so I went to restore everything and it was easy but
my most important stuff was missing so I went through the whole

process again as they advised me to do and it seems my Outlook
Express e-mails and my Outlook express special backup info was
not saved. They had told me before my computer crashed that

the e-mails were all saved where a lot of my information is saved. It
was not true. Another thing, ever since I was hooked up to the
Carbonite backup program that computer started to get very

flakey. It was a 4 year old computer but I still don't trust that
Carbonite backup.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:31:45 +0000

Do be careful with iDrive-E. On the computer you use it on, it creates a short text file IDriveE.ini which contains your "encrypted" password and data encryption key (and userid).

Unfortunately, shocking as it may seem, the "encryption" technique they use could best be described as ROT2 (although, it's possible that they pick ROTX where X may vary but is also specified in this file). So, for example, if your password is "AABBCC", IDriveE.ini will show it as "CCDDEE" – might as well just leave it in cleartext as the illusion of security just makes users more likely to be careless with this file. You MUST keep this file on an ENCRYPTED drive (so, probably, you need to make sure your C: is encrypted which can be a real pain) – especially on an office machine or laptop where theft is probably more likely. Also, don't let anyone borrow your machine as they could have this file in a few seconds and you would probably never know it until your files were mysteriously distributed on the net months later.

Since there appears to be no way to change your encryption key once you've signed up, you're pretty much wedged if someone gets at the IDriveE.ini file even if you know it — hopefully when you cancel the service, IDriveE at least deletes your files so maybe canceling solves the problem.

By: Matthew Southgate

Matthew Southgate — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:48:14 +0000

Turbobackup are offing free 2gig of backup space,

We support, windows, Mac and linux

http://www.turbobackup.co.uk

By: Matthew Southgate

Matthew Southgate — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:47:54 +0000

Turbobackup are offing free 2gig of backup space,

We support, windows, Mac and linux

By: jenny

jenny — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:00:30 +0000

I use http://www.backupanytime.com and find it excellent. The compression I get is less than the previous posters 3.1 at the setting I use but I can change the compression level settings up or down. I used this to discover my optimum setting for the normal backup window. It is an excellent idea which is available from few other online backup provicers in the UK.

By: LMA

LMA — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:30:54 +0000

Why don’t you check out http://www.perfectbackup.co.uk they are worth a look. I signed up about a month ago for a free of charge for life 1 GB account. After compression I now backup over 3GB of my data. Support open files and block leve incremental backups, I have had no problems or hassles at all. I understand it will even backup Exchange and SQL out of the box and will run on Linux and Mac op systems.

Even though the service is free they still offer a £1,000,000 data restore guarantee.