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Cloud Back up suitable for a Joe Bloggs

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  • 08-05-2013 12:44pm
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    Lofty0990
    Registered Users Posts: 104 ✭✭


    Looking for a good value secure cloud backup for a home computer(starting to get a tad nervous of hard drive life span) that has all usual personal stuff with spreadsheets that have work accounts etc. Being close to basic at this sort of stuff it would need to have automated aspect to it if you know what I mean.

    Thanks.


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    wheresmybeaver
    Registered Users Posts: 1,120 ✭✭✭wheresmybeaver


    You could start off with Skydrive, especially if all you're backing up is spreadsheets, word docs, some photos etc.
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/skydrive/download

    You can logon with your Hotmail / Microsoft account and get 7GB for free.

    The Windows software will create a Skydrive folder on your PC and everything you put in here will automatically sync up. You can put, for example, Photos, Documents and Work folders into the Skydrive folder. Right click on a folder and select "Include in a Library" and it means that in future when you save a photo or what have you then it'll automatically save to the appropriate folder.

    You also get a Skydrive app for your phone so you can access your documents when you're out. Security by default is Private for everything, but it's easy enough to share a file or folder publically or with specific users.

    In fairness it works really well and is idiot proof. I set it up about 6 months ago for backing up photos and documents and I've never had to troubleshoot or configure anything since day 1. I've about 12GB of stuff on there now (I get 24GB for free because I'm an old Hotmail user) and it's pretty reassuring knowing that even if the house burns down 8+ years of photos and videos are safe on there.


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    hearny
    Registered Users Posts: 953 ✭✭✭hearny


    100GB Backup space with Zoolz

    You can't go wrong. Can You???????

    https://www.zoolz.com/Zoolz_Home

    If you are paranoid about storing files off site you will need to get a NAS with RAID, you are looking at between 200 and 300 Euro one off payment, if thats within budget I will recommend some drives / enclosures.


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    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    A NAS doesn't get files offsite though, which should be a requirement to cover for fire, theft, etc; even if only for a subset of important files. If there's a concern about security, a cloud service with client-side encryption is the way to go -- SpiderOak is a good example here.

    For the truly paranoid a self-hosted setup like OwnCloud would be the way to go, although you'd need to roll your own encryption; the OP would probably need to contract someone to set this up for them.


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