Saving Files Online

[TASmith]

So, in the process of upgrading my harddrive, I managed to lose practically all my files, art or otherwise...

This is after buying an external harddrive as backup, which I now see isn't good enough, as they're too delicate. I find I must trust the internet as the safest way to hold my data. So, how does one make a zip of files and upload it to the net? What's the best site to do it? Is it free? Should I just gmail myself this data or what?

I've got about 60 gigs of music files, another 15 gigs of word files and related images. I've still got about 30 gigs of photos from right before my ex harddrive crashed... Any advice?

[paberu]

http://www.jungledisk.com/

You can't go wrong with that!

Edit: I use it myself, basically you buy the Jungle Disk app (one time $20 pop) and subscribe yourself to amazon S3 hosting. The app provides an easy interface to sync with the amazons servers - which are pretty cheap to use with their current rates.

[Baron Impossible]

I find I must trust the internet...

I think that's the flaw in your plan ;) Never put anything online you wouldn't be happy to have stolen or compromised. On top of that, internet storage also uses hard-drives...

[LosPescados]

I think that's the flaw in your plan ;) Never put anything online you wouldn't be happy to have stolen or compromised. On top of that, internet storage also uses hard-drives...

QFT, you will ALWAYS store your data on a hard drive.

Servers = hard drives
You should just be more carefully on how you uses your hard drives, use partitions. C= windows/linux , D = linux/windows (it's a shame not all programs can run properly on linux), E/F/G/... = movies or stock photos or programs or ...
Think a couple of times when you format your PC and make partitions as you like them, read a guide when to use FAT32 or NTFS (or even FAT16 if you want to use a program that needs it).

-Tom

[paberu]

What you guys don't realise is that online storage is done using raids, so if one hard disk fails your data is still there.

I'm pretty sure your data will be more safe on Amazons' S3 servers, than on your hard disk (good to have both + an external backup just in case)

[jhofferle]

Online storage has the advantage of being offsite. If your house burns down it doesn't do much good to have your backup sitting right next to your computer.

I backup to an external hard drive and then every couple of months burn the irreplaceable stuff to a couple DVDs and throw them in my safe deposit box.

[LosPescados]

Online storage has the advantage of being offsite. If your house burns down it doesn't do much good to have your backup sitting right next to your computer.

I backup to an external hard drive and then every couple of months burn the irreplaceable stuff to a couple DVDs and throw them in my safe deposit box.

Never looked at it that way, but still, if you are careful you don't need the online storage. I've had, the last 3years, 7 blue screens, I never lost any data because of intelligent partition usage.
Same with viruses, you don't need an AV if you don't surf on the wrong sites.

But this discussion is off topic, so back on topic:
some friends of me use jungledisk to store their year work on so they can use it at school as well

[TASmith]

My problem was I was running out of storage space on my computer. I needed to upgrade it, and my external harddrive was fine, transferring everything back up until my son grabbed it and dropped on the floor... :(

I had an art collection of over 4000 artists. I'm taking the harddrive to a special company that can take it apart and retrieve the files. It should cost about 300 euros if they can do it, but then I get back all my baby pics of Andrew and his videos. Plus my art and reference collection - at least 3 years of work on my part.

Does Amazon require a monthly fee or anything like that?

[Flashback]

You can also try Mozy or dropbox.

[Clochette]

http://www.angelbackup.com/

"What you guys don't realise is that online storage is done using raids, so if one hard disk fails your data is still there.

I'm pretty sure your data will be more safe on Amazons' S3 servers, than on your hard disk (good to have both + an external backup just in case)"
^ Agreed !

[TASmith]

thanks everyone. I should add that none of my files are so personal that I'd be afraid of them falling into wrong hands - it's just art pics and family photos, etc. Any writing I just save to my gmail, or post right in my sketchbook thread.

[Grief]

hey TA does your teaching job give you a log-in to the school's server? why not just use that if you have access to it?

[Baron Impossible]

What you guys don't realise is that online storage is done using raids, so if one hard disk fails your data is still there.

Security in that sense isn't an issue - it's cheaper to do RAID at home if that's what you want although it's overkill for periodic backup - I was talking about entrusting your personal data to a third party. However, my paranoia is probably explained by my living in the UK where the government leaves our personal data lying about on trains and in the street on a regular basis.

[paberu]

Security in that sense isn't an issue - it's cheaper to do RAID at home if that's what you want although it's overkill for periodic backup - I was talking about entrusting your personal data to a third party. However, my paranoia is probably explained by my living in the UK where the government leaves our personal data lying about on trains and in the street on a regular basis.

Jungle Disk does have an option of encrypting any data you put on the Amazon servers. You can also encrypt all you data into one file container on your pc and upload that to the servers if you are that paranoid.

[TASmith]

but is there a monthly fee? :P

[jhofferle]

but is there a monthly fee? :P

http://www.jungledisk.com/desktop/pricing.aspx

Looks like you get charged $.15 per GB per month for data storage and a charge for bandwidth when you upload/download data.