Review: Online Backup Services

July 13th, 2006 • 2 comments Reviews + Recommendations, Technology
Tags: Amazon, Carbonite, Data-Deposit-Box, encryption, Foldershare, Iron-Mountain, Jungle-Disk, Mozy, online-backup, S3, security, simple-storage-service, Sony

You may not wish for it to happen but it will. Just like everything else mechanical, hard drives fail. If you’re toting around a laptop (like me) then your chances of damaging your hard drive are even higher.

Now, the biggest problem with this is that people (okay, people like me) are inherently lazy about backing up stuff. I devised a way to backup my important files automatically from my laptop onto a RAIDed network house server (if you don’t know what that means, don’t worry - it isn’t important for the stuff below).

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