Online Backup Service - Page 2

Ignitionnet · 29-03-2009, 09:49

I'm not going into that discussion, I'm aware both what the site says, what the CEO says, and what will be happening once the rollout is complete.

I did say half the contract, meaning the last 6 months. STM or alternative management will happen any time after completion of rollout. Source Neil Berkett VM CEO.

mentalis · 29-03-2009, 09:51

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Originally Posted by Moldova

You will be advised to upload outside of the STM timeframe.

Is there an 'outside of the STM timeframe'?

xpod · 29-03-2009, 10:36

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Is there an 'outside of the STM timeframe'?

The wee small hours.

Caspar · 29-03-2009, 20:19

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

I use MS Sky Drive - 25Gb.

I upload overnight, out of STM hours.

You can't integrate skydrive into your windows shell though can you? like a drive letter or a drag and drop capability?

I've tried Carbonite.com, which is good, with encryption as standard and shell integration...the only downside is that it only allows you to backup physical drives not network drivers or NAS drives

moroboshi · 29-03-2009, 22:03

I use Mozy. $5 a month for unlimited storage. Took ages to backup all my stuff (around 100gb) and it was all done overnight for obvious reasons. Would be nice if we actually had a decent upload speed instead of the comically bad one we have now.

Amusing to see Virgin recommending people backup now though. I wonder if they're prepared for people complaining that their '20mbit' connection is taking hours to upload a few gigs. Virgin are very careful to hide their apalling uplaod speeds when advertising their products.

dragon · 29-03-2009, 22:43

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Originally Posted by AndyCambs

I do wonder about privacy though. How secure are these online back up tools (not just VM but all of them) and not just from outside penetration but also curious employees?

Some of them support clientside encryption, Jungledisk is a good example of this, uses amazon S3 to store the data but can encrypt everything client side before uploading.

Another trick would be to stick the backup copy of the data in a TC container then upload that instead of the raw data although that would be rather manual so not so good if you wanted an automated backup solution.

GazCBG · 31-03-2009, 11:50

Hi,

Is there any more info on this VM Backup
Like when it be released ?
Can we backup anything on it like MP3's etc...
Can it be encrypted ?