With Carbonite the initial backup of 6GB finished over night. That was all pictures etc. I had to manually go through and add the mp3's about 16GB worth which isn't a big deal since I don't deal with the often. Took two nights on those but in it's defense we were watching Netflix non-stop on those two days. On average we do about 3GB of pictures a year.. spread that out over a year doesn't take much to upload at all. $4.95 that's automatic compared to DVD's and usb's where you have to do all the work probably be about the same and less I have to do.
Online backup storage?
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And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
I am sure that there is already a lot of back doors for all kinds of stuff now.
As long as you are connected to a network and internet there is no such thing as absolute security.
With what I have on SkyDrive or my home computer or laptop, I don't think that government would have much of an interest in the stuff.
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
I am sure that there is already a lot of back doors for all kinds of stuff now.
As long as you are connected to a network and internet there is no such thing as absolute security.
With what I have on SkyDrive or my home computer or laptop, I don't think that government would have much of an interest in the stuff.
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
They will probably try to make us buy carbon credits or tax us per GB to offset the carbon emitted for creating and storing our data.
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
They will probably try to make us buy carbon credits or tax us per GB to offset the carbon emitted for creating and storing our data.
Does BITOG have a tinfoil hat forum I don't know about?
Originally Posted By: Ike_Clanton
Does BITOG have a tinfoil hat forum I don't know about?
Starting to wonder the same...
Does BITOG have a tinfoil hat forum I don't know about?
Starting to wonder the same...
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Takes over the cloud storage industry?!
Prevent private entities from offering storage space?!
That industry extends well beyond the borders of the U.S. Just move your stuff somewhere else. With Amazon S3, you can choose whether your "buckets" are created in the U.S. or Europe, for example. I have a few VPS's located on servers in Durban, South Africa.
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
*No*. You can decipher my data over my cold, dead cryptographic algorithm.
And what if the government takes over this industry? Seriously speaking here...
Takes over the cloud storage industry?!
Prevent private entities from offering storage space?!
That industry extends well beyond the borders of the U.S. Just move your stuff somewhere else. With Amazon S3, you can choose whether your "buckets" are created in the U.S. or Europe, for example. I have a few VPS's located on servers in Durban, South Africa.
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
Would you keep your stuff 'in the cloud' with Uncle Sam as the owner?
*No*. You can decipher my data over my cold, dead cryptographic algorithm.
Originally Posted By: Eric Smith
By doing your method you still run the risk of losing data. Drives stolen etc. Maybe a small risk but compared to the online which is almost none. I don't want to mess with multiple hard-drives. The older I get the easier I want things and not just for myself the wife also. I don't have any sensitive data and they say all data is encrypted. I can't do alot of checking since the firewall at work blocks all of them.
Of course, ALL methods carry with them some risk of failure resulting in loss of data. I don't mind working with the HDDs at all, and since there are several involved, along with multiple locations, I figure my risk of loss is quite low.
In all honesty, I have not spent much time getting to know exactly how these services are operating. I would strongly suspect that the reputable ones are appropriately RAID-ed and mirrored such that their chances of data disaster are pretty low. But it will never be zero for them either.
As for encryption, I hope they're doing it. That said, I would be less confident in the security it provides if I'm not the one controlling the method of encryption, keys used, and so forth. We pay most of our bills online now, and I routinely "print" confirmations/receipts as pdfs, and save them in the proper subdir. The information that could be stolen from this set of docs alone scares me.
What about bandwidth? It also seems to me that, especially with the larger uploads, users are consuming a vast amount of bandwidth to perform a task you can easily do much more quickly without putting your data "out there".
I'm not condemning anyone else for using such a service if it seems to fit their needs and they're happy with it. That said, perhaps I'm an overly suspicious dinosaur, but I just don't have a good feeling about these services.
By doing your method you still run the risk of losing data. Drives stolen etc. Maybe a small risk but compared to the online which is almost none. I don't want to mess with multiple hard-drives. The older I get the easier I want things and not just for myself the wife also. I don't have any sensitive data and they say all data is encrypted. I can't do alot of checking since the firewall at work blocks all of them.
Of course, ALL methods carry with them some risk of failure resulting in loss of data. I don't mind working with the HDDs at all, and since there are several involved, along with multiple locations, I figure my risk of loss is quite low.
In all honesty, I have not spent much time getting to know exactly how these services are operating. I would strongly suspect that the reputable ones are appropriately RAID-ed and mirrored such that their chances of data disaster are pretty low. But it will never be zero for them either.
As for encryption, I hope they're doing it. That said, I would be less confident in the security it provides if I'm not the one controlling the method of encryption, keys used, and so forth. We pay most of our bills online now, and I routinely "print" confirmations/receipts as pdfs, and save them in the proper subdir. The information that could be stolen from this set of docs alone scares me.
What about bandwidth? It also seems to me that, especially with the larger uploads, users are consuming a vast amount of bandwidth to perform a task you can easily do much more quickly without putting your data "out there".
I'm not condemning anyone else for using such a service if it seems to fit their needs and they're happy with it. That said, perhaps I'm an overly suspicious dinosaur, but I just don't have a good feeling about these services.
I have nearly 400gb on carbonite. It took about a month to do the first upload on my cable modem.
It works great, and is worth 50 dollars per year.
I would spend 50 dollars a year buying a bigger external hard drive anyways.
I just upgraded the hard drive on my main system to a 1TB unit, and did a full restore with carbonite, and it only took a few days.
It works great, and is worth 50 dollars per year.
I would spend 50 dollars a year buying a bigger external hard drive anyways.
I just upgraded the hard drive on my main system to a 1TB unit, and did a full restore with carbonite, and it only took a few days.
Originally Posted By: JustinH
I have nearly 400gb on carbonite. It took about a month to do the first upload on my cable modem.
It works great, and is worth 50 dollars per year.
I would spend 50 dollars a year buying a bigger external hard drive anyways.
I just upgraded the hard drive on my main system to a 1TB unit, and did a full restore with carbonite, and it only took a few days.
That was one of the points I made about the time to do a full backup of a lot of data. I would also have a local hard drive backup also because if you suffered a failure during that month of initial uploading, you would have lost some or all of your data. I think online backup is good, but certain instances should have a local HD backup as well.
I have nearly 400gb on carbonite. It took about a month to do the first upload on my cable modem.
It works great, and is worth 50 dollars per year.
I would spend 50 dollars a year buying a bigger external hard drive anyways.
I just upgraded the hard drive on my main system to a 1TB unit, and did a full restore with carbonite, and it only took a few days.
That was one of the points I made about the time to do a full backup of a lot of data. I would also have a local hard drive backup also because if you suffered a failure during that month of initial uploading, you would have lost some or all of your data. I think online backup is good, but certain instances should have a local HD backup as well.
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