- OT Free On-line storage
- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
Don't know where to post this one. Open to suggestions.
Can anyone recommend somewhere to store images and a little personal
data. Probably no more that 1 or 2GB.
Tried Sky store and save but things won't upload and I do not have too
much faith in Sky anyway.
I back up to an external hard drive regularly but would prefer to have a
back up off-site just in case the house burns down.
TIA
- Posted by Paul D.Smith on April 9th, 2008
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Get a writable DVD drive. Each DVD stores about 4-7GB (single or double
layer) and then take them to work and leave them in a drawer or locker.
Paul DS
- Posted by Jezz on April 9th, 2008
PC World have a CD which gives 1GB of free online storage.
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- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
Jezz wrote:
My original post obviously wasn't very clear.
What I am interested in is some free on-line storage. There are a few
entities that do it but I wondered whether anyone had any experience of
their reliability and ease of use etc.
- Posted by ato_zee@hotmail.com on April 9th, 2008
Use two external drives in rotation (the general recommmendation
is to use three) and store one remotely. That way you can have,
two full backups, one local one remote, and the third is a full and
daily or weekly incremental backup. It's a good idea to have
two PC drives one for the operating system, one for data.
The operating system one needs an occasional full backup,
when major changes are made like adding the full Adobe CS3,
MS Visual Studio, or whatever.
The data one is the one that needs incremental backup
to keep the backed up data up to date.
For the operating system backup, I use Acronis True Image
11, but Ghost is an alternative, you also need to make or
have a bootable restore disk, or CDROM. then when you
HD gives the "click of death" you replace it, restore the
OS, defrag, and you are back in business.
For incremental data backup I use Fileback PC, because
you don't produce many incremetal files, it's a copy or add
newer. If you don't opt for compression you can
use them as you did the originals, Word docs still open,
jpgs open as jpg's, etc.
So I have on each backup drive, folders
C-image
D-image
you could add PC2-C-image, PC2-D-image
folders.
It is ESSENTIAL to test restore.
ADSL backup seems far too slow for 10's of
gigs of data, a near full 250GB drive takes
ages for a local backup, being limited
by its SATA300 spec. Data can't be
moved, no matter how fast the system, than
the underlying drives, raid may help a bit
by striping, but mechanical drives still
set the limit.
- Posted by Paul D.Smith on April 9th, 2008
"Invisible Man" <Invisible@invisible.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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One thing to be aware of if using Windoze systems. The Event Log (part of
Administrators' tools) can show a "bad block" error as a hint that your hard
drive is on its last legs. However there is NO popup etc to warn you!
Check your event log regularly!
Also, your hard drive slowing down may be a symptom of bad blocks as the OS
is working around the problem as best it can.
Paul DS.
- Posted by George Weston on April 9th, 2008
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I don't think anyone's listening.
;-)
In answer to your question, have a look at Google Docs
Disclaimer - I haven't tried it yet.
George
- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
George Weston wrote:
- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
Invisible Man wrote:
images or a backup of my email and calendar files.
- Posted by Ivor Jones on April 9th, 2008
ato_zee@hotmail.com wrote:
Ghost, despite what some people say about Norton products, works extremely
well.
I have two external NAS drives, one in the room with the PC and one
outside in the garage, connected via CAT5. The system is set to do a
complete full backup every day, to alternate drives. It does it at some
silly time like 5am as I'm never up that early (!)
I don't bother with incremental backups, it's too much hassle when you
come to restore things, easier to just restore the last complete ghost
image.
Ivor
- Posted by Steve Terry on April 9th, 2008
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Steve Terry
- Posted by 2de on April 9th, 2008
"Invisible Man" <Invisible@invisible.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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BT Digital Vault but only 1GB for free
http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...L_digitalvault
Chris
- Posted by ato_zee@hotmail.com on April 9th, 2008
On 9-Apr-2008, "Ivor Jones" <ivor@thisaddressis.invalid> wrote:
Did find one snag with that philosophy. If you total the PC,
fire, theft, lightning strike, you will have to get new hardware,
then the restore goes pear shaped.
The new PC has many different drivers, different graphics card,
and other integrated OS specific devices and chipsets.
Try and wheel the old OS back in from backup and it
complains bitterly, been there done that, it may come
up, but probably as a shadow of its former self.
Which is why I use separate drives and backups for
OS and data.
If it has to be a new PC I can just restore the
data, though I can, since the data drive isn't compressed,
and is identical to the original, just as easily
use the backup without first restoring it.
Tried that, it works.
- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
2de wrote:
I may try Xdrive which allows 5Gb. We have 2 networked PCs and an
external hard drive so it is only stuff like family photos and vital
financial information we need to store somewhere separate.
- Posted by Martin Jay on April 9th, 2008
On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:56:42 +0100, Invisible Man
<Invisible@invisible.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
May's edition of Computer Shopper reviews ten services.
If you, or anyone else, would like a copy let me have your email
address and I'll forward one to you. martin@spam-free.org.uk is a
valid, BTW.
I'm currently trying out the basic version of IDrive,
<http://www.idrive.com/>, which offers 2GBytes of free online storage.
The supplied software is light-weight, easy to use and backs up open
files.
--
Martin Jay
- Posted by ato_zee@hotmail.com on April 9th, 2008
Does it cover the problem of ADSL being so slow
in the upload direction?
A 1GB SD memory card could take ages if
it had a fair number of images, and you aren't
living next door to the exchange.
- Posted by Invisible Man on April 9th, 2008
Martin Jay wrote:
I have found the reports on-line.
- Posted by kraftee on April 10th, 2008
Invisible Man wrote:
& you're planning to use a free online server for _vital_ finacial
information.....
walks away shaking head & muttering to himself....
- Posted by Owain on April 10th, 2008
Invisible Man wrote:
Your personal webspace hosted by your ISP?
Only caveat might be downloading stuff from another ISP's connection, eg
if the house burns down and you have to use the local library.
Owain
- Posted by Michael Chare on April 10th, 2008
"Invisible Man" <Invisible@invisible.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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Well I am sick to death of that BT(?) advert!
Maybe you could hide a memory stick/SD card or DVD outside or at your place
or work, or send it to someone else for save keeping.
--
Michael Chare
