that sounds a bit worrying..
did you contact tech support though? what did they say?
brings a new meaning to the word "secure"
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that sounds a bit worrying..
did you contact tech support though? what did they say?
brings a new meaning to the word "secure"
lol!
1. I use hardware RAID 1 for a base-level 'backup,' though that is a misnomer. The reason I have it is to provide a first port of call in the event of disk failure.
2. Secondly, I back up to another internal drive - a complete disk image every week. This way If the RAID array falls over, I can apply this disk image to a disk and be off again.
3. Thirdly, I write a disk image to a NAS disk every other day so that if a virus were to infect the system and chew up both the RAID 1 array and the internal backup disk, that NAS backup would be safe.
4. Fourthly, I make bi-monthly backups to a removable USB hard drive which I store elsewhere in the building. That way, if a virus infects the entire network, that copy will be immune.
5. Then finally, every month I aggregate these backups and have a courier collect my hard disk, deliver it to the head office of where I work for storage, then have the disk returned to me. This is done every month and provides a secure, off-site, virus immune backup without the worry of a third party sniffing through my data or a third party's servers being hijacked.
Paranoid? You bet. But if I were to be held responsible for the loss of financial data of clients with a collective worth of over £100 million for a small business such as the one I work for, my life would not be worth living.
2. Secondly, I back up to another internal drive - a complete disk image every week. This way If the RAID array falls over, I can apply this disk image to a disk and be off again.
3. Thirdly, I write a disk image to a NAS disk every other day so that if a virus were to infect the system and chew up both the RAID 1 array and the internal backup disk, that NAS backup would be safe.
4. Fourthly, I make bi-monthly backups to a removable USB hard drive which I store elsewhere in the building. That way, if a virus infects the entire network, that copy will be immune.
5. Then finally, every month I aggregate these backups and have a courier collect my hard disk, deliver it to the head office of where I work for storage, then have the disk returned to me. This is done every month and provides a secure, off-site, virus immune backup without the worry of a third party sniffing through my data or a third party's servers being hijacked.
Paranoid? You bet. But if I were to be held responsible for the loss of financial data of clients with a collective worth of over £100 million for a small business such as the one I work for, my life would not be worth living.
that sounds a bit worrying..
did you contact tech support though? what did they say?
brings a new meaning to the word "secure"
No, i didnt contact them. I just gave up on it to be honest.
1. I use hardware RAID 1 for a base-level 'backup,' though that is a misnomer. The reason I have it is to provide a first port of call in the event of disk failure.
2. Secondly, I back up to another internal drive - a complete disk image every week. This way If the RAID array falls over, I can apply this disk image to a disk and be off again.
3. Thirdly, I write a disk image to a NAS disk every other day so that if a virus were to infect the system and chew up both the RAID 1 array and the internal backup disk, that NAS backup would be safe.
4. Fourthly, I make bi-monthly backups to a removable USB hard drive which I store elsewhere in the building. That way, if a virus infects the entire network, that copy will be immune.
5. Then finally, every month I aggregate these backups and have a courier collect my hard disk, deliver it to the head office of where I work for storage, then have the disk returned to me. This is done every month and provides a secure, off-site, virus immune backup without the worry of a third party sniffing through my data or a third party's servers being hijacked.
Paranoid? You bet. But if I were to be held responsible for the loss of financial data of clients with a collective worth of over £100 million for a small business such as the one I work for, my life would not be worth living.
lol... we at least you'll never lose anything!
that does seem slow..
i'd contact them and ask why..
doesn't it have to decrypt the file or something as well?
I do the same. I have 4 1TB external drives, Time Machine and Mozy. I rotate one of the external drive backups offsite every month. It sounds like a lot of work but only takes a few minutes with ChronoSync to update the drives. I don't fully trust online backup services - I've also had problems recovering files from my 100GB Mozy backup.
You can't beat Mozy's $60/yr unlimited backup - the only catch is they limit upload speed to 1Mb/s and my connection is capable of 10Mb/s upload. Currently using DropBox and it's working great, but since my MBA 80GB is so small it's only useful for smaller syncs with my iMac.
Just trying out ZumoDrive now and it's pretty good but expensive for large data backups.
ZumoDrive mounts an online drive. Working great for me so far but they're still in beta.
Your problem will be finding $5/month unlimited. Check out what Amazon S3 charges for online storage. The places that offer unlimited storage have the worst transfer speeds ... you get what you pay for.