Experience With Online Data Back up Companies?

[Callie]

There are a ton of companies that promise to back up your data online in case of crash or another disaster. With my laptop recently stolen I am looking for somebody who can share recommend the best company.

[ford]

If you refer to this thread (http://www.datacentertalk.com/showthread.php?t=29887) you will see that I listed my most trusted online storage/backup services to be the following two (In order of preference):

1. Dropbox (http://www.dropbox.com/) - You get the first 2GB free and after that you pay but it is cheap.
2. Egnyte (http://www.egnyte.com/) - Costs $29.99/mo but you get a very safe online storage system.

Hope this helps and sorry to hear about your laptop.

Regards,
ford

[Callie]

Thanks Ford. When I have a minute I am going to go look at your link. Price is also important to me so thanks for giving me that information as well.

[Clickety Clack]

I am wondering if I can actually do without an external storage/back-up service now that I've been saving everything to "The Cloud". Or is there another reason it would benefit me?

[mike2011]

Dropbox works great and is good for companies.

[telli12]

Egnyte is an excellent company, and we have enjoyed working with them for a number of years. I'm not really sure they would be what you are looking for though. Egnyte does have a continuous back-up system for PCs and Mac computers, but the price makes this an expensive proposition, unless you are a supper user.

We use the "Office Local Cloud" which automatically and continually backs up our data from our server. This way we do not have to recover a current days work manually if our servers crash and we lose all our data.

[lteruel1_1]

hi,

joining.

im using dropbox since it's reliable and can easily transfer documents plus 2gb is free:D

dropbox is user friendly and you can choose which folder you can share if you want other to have access on it.