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Work File Storage, iCloud – Dropbox?
Hey guys, hope everyone is well 🙂 i recently had my unit broken into, and had a few iMacs and pcs stolen along with some tools etc!! obvisouly i was gutted, but what was more annoying was all my work that was on the computers! some of which was backed up , but the last 8 months or so weren’t 🙁 since getting back up and running, I’m looking at storing all my work online or somewhere, where i can access it from numerous machines?? any ideas? i cloud sounds great, but storage sounds expensive…can anyone recommend anywhere with good value? 🙂 thanks x
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have you looked at Mozy Pro?
you can schedual backups to start once you leave work so it doesnt slow down your internet connection. so you leave work and its bucking up all new files created that day.i have Dropbox for my personal stuff but as you say can get expensive when files are big.
Have Google Drive also, but just been looking at that in the last week. -
I use drop box, easy to use and send links, hassle free
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We use Barclays insure its free up to 2gb unlimited is only £2.75 a month I think and you can set it to back up all new files after to leave work so doesn’t slow you down.
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Sorry that’s isure
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Looking at the same thing at the moment, trying to find the best way of doing it, so far i have come up with making my own cloud storage.
Western Digital have just released a 2tb hard drive which allows you to access it from anywhere with internet connection, meaning you don’t have to have it stored at the office.
What’s better is with that amount of space, I can store all my clients files on it and work on my iPad or laptop from anywhere.
I need to look into it a bit more but it sounds good to me, here’s the link http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Networking-Har … ive/703869
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I guy I know works for a company that does the remote back up service. The actually own the servers and have two secure sites (mirroring each other), rather than reselling others. Barclays Isure is powered by the link Rob posted, so I assume re-selling their storage space.
I will speak with him, and see what his costs are? I need to back up… keep putting it off.
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It would be good to be able to access files from anywhere but if that’s not too important then what I do is run everything off an external hard drive and every Friday I take it home and back it up to my laptop and an external hard drive which stays at home so if anything happened then I’ve only lost a weeks work.
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warren you have a google business account mate, give google drive a go. based on same principle. you will know yourself just how many things are being intigrated with google business. chuck in almost zero spam hitting your inbox folder and its a winner. i think anyway… been using it for years now and would never go back. this was the reason i began dabbling with the google drive, as i already had dropbox and mozy for business. as i say, keeps everything under the one roof.
additional benefit for me is i have a google chrome laptop which is seamleas with everything i run, same with work computers running chrome. -
I only recently backed up some old customer folders to DVD and I filled 10 DVDs with old clients files as my weekly back up,was taking a few hours to copy everything to the laptop. This week when I backed up I though it would be much quicker but still have about 270gig on my hard drive, the point is that is a lot of data to upload and how easy is it to copy back if you decide you are not happy with the provider or some other reason? I haven’t researched it as I haven’t needed it as I like having it on the hard drive on my desk, a bit old school now I suppose :lol1:
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i had two Terabyte hard drives, bought 1 month apart and both good brands.
they were external, about the size of small book and stood on their side
at the side of my monitor… i backed up all my files onto one drive.
one after noon i bumped it over. sat it back up and from then on it never worked again.
i went out and bought the second one… 1 month later, it stopped working.
i have no knowledge of why/how the second one packed in on me but they cost me allot at the time and that was that.i have had similar experiences with USB sticks and the like… I just cannot be doing with things being so fragile. and no im not playing "keepie-upie" with them! :lol1:
warren i agree with you on the initial backup being a monsterous task. think ours took about 3 weeks to backup. but was set to start at 5pm and finish at 8.30am each day. so never noticed anything happening.
i guess if you prefer the old school way then thats all that matters.
i do get where your coming from with the dvd’s etc but once those pile up, its a case of indexing those too. -
Like others Barclays gave me Mozy Pro free to try for a year, but I do find it alittle slow backing up my HUGE graphic files (I’m also a graphic designer/photographer, some RAW files can be 50meg in size!)
My workshop set-up uses a NAS system (Network Attached Storage) – its a small box with 2 harddrives in RAID mode (Data’s is mirrored between them, if one drive fails you still have a copy) that all 4 of my computers communicate with & store all important files (Including my Itunes!!!!!).
This little box of tricks is locked away in a cabinet, just incase any scum break in, hopefully there not bother with a small black box locked away and just nick the computers.
I do have a second fail safe of a western digital backup drive that I do (in)frequent back ups.If you can I’d look at a NAS drive if you already have setup a network, get use to using it as primary data storage, that way your protected if a machine goes bang, and hopefully scum will not nick if broken into.
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i understand the logic in having in-house storage. backup backing up backup and so on… i know its more convenient and far faster. I have just fell foul of this sort of things too many times now.
if nothing else, as Ben, the topic poster has said, its loss of data due to theft, where you can be cleaned out in one night.
further extreme, a fire… you maybe insured for fire loss but not for data loss unless you have something in place to cover you on this sort of thing before hand.
cloud based backup is not everyones cuppa-tea i realise that, i just think its a safer all rounder.
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quote Daniel Evans:Looking at the same thing at the moment, trying to find the best way of doing it, so far i have come up with making my own cloud storage.Western Digital have just released a 2tb hard drive which allows you to access it from anywhere with internet connection, meaning you don’t have to have it stored at the office.
What’s better is with that amount of space, I can store all my clients files on it and work on my iPad or laptop from anywhere.
I need to look into it a bit more but it sounds good to me, here’s the link http://www.comet.co.uk/p/Networking-Har … ive/703869
Hi Daniel
I have the exact one, it is a great backup. It is not off-site for me, just plugged in to router. I can share files between all my computers, Mac and PC’s. Edit a photo on Mac, load it up on PC.
The best bit is you have an app on your iPhone or iPad and you can access any file while you are out and about.
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Hi David
That’s good to know.
The only thing stopping me at the mo is that i’ve also had 2 western digital hard drives fail on me, about 1 week after the warranty run out but i really like the idea of having everything available on buy iPad and cloud storage seems too much at the moment.
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Had similar problems. Have had a few break ins at home and also had a few hard drives go bad at work. Recreated a few files from PDFs in my email. Luckily my work also uses an ofF site tape back up. That’s saved my bacon a few times. I do use Dropbox for my weekly work. That’s mainly for when I’m sick it’s easier to work from home. Sorry to hear about the theft.
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