What, in your opinion, is the single best provider for remote backups?
The reason I ask, is that I have a lot of personal and business information which currently is only backed up to a server in the same building (my house) and I want to add a second reliable off-site backup.
There are so many out there and I'm so confused on which to go for.
So, who do think is the best?
Amazon S3 with a front-end such as Jungle Disk. Well-known company behind it, reasonable pricing and a wealth of tools and libraries available.
I use Amazon S3 with JungleDisk as a front end. Jungle disk supports both Windows, Linux and the Mac. So far I have not had any problems with it.
Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk will be a cheap solution if you don't have many Gigas of data to backup. It seems that 15cents per month is not expensive, but if you backup more than 20Gb it'll start to hurt your pockets. :)
HP has it's own backup service. It's $59,00 a year.
I am using Amazon S3 + JugleDisk Workgroup Edition and love it. Much, much, much more reliable from my experience than Mozy Pro which would often falsely say that a backup was complete in the email report, but the logs would say otherwise.
With JungleDisk and any decent amount of data to back up, it would be worth it to get the JungleDisk Plus service so you can do incremental backup after your initial backup.
I have 30Mbps up/down FiOS at home and see speeds of up to 12Mbps sometimes with this solution. We use it on 4 production web servers at colos as well and it is nice to be able to get to that data as a mapped drive letter.
Pro tip for S3: If you have a Mac, get Transmit and you can access S3 as if it were an FTP site as well, and set buckets (directories) to be publicly accessible via HTTP: http://sitening.com/blog/how-to-make-files-publicly-accessible-on-amazon-s3/
There's also Mozy, KeepVault (which supports Windows Home Server), and http://www.crashplan.com which is very well thought off.
I'm personally using S3/JungleDisk where JD is the network/drive letter per say. Then I'm using SyncBack to drive my backups. I find that I have a little more fine grain control of how the back ups are done. Also SB can be scripted, so the instant a new picture of X (usually one of my two young kids) hits the primary machine in our home, it will fire off a backup to S3/JungleDisk.
S3 sounds more reliable to me, since big company is sitting behind to avoid the stop/close of the service.
S3 tip: Transmit is a good S3 tool on Mac. However, if you are on Windows, Mac, or Linux, you can also use CrossFTP Pro to access S3 as if it were an FTP site, and set Buckets/Directories public accessible through HTTP.
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Remember that the tools that use S3 aren't necessarily compatible with each other. They all put their own drive/directory/filename mapping on top of S3's bit buckets - so if you need to change from Jungledisk to someone else you may have to download all the data and re-upload it.
List of amazon S3 based backup tools.
Try memopal.com It small but really good back-up company. Does versioning-saves all version of your files with no limits (no 30 day back crap) Real time back up even if you work on the file (Thats right, no more every 1-12-24 hours cycle) Memopal client learns you-will backup more fast the files you use the most No unlimited space crap with fair use policy-just buy 150 or 250 GB Restore is easy just copy and paste Support team works really fast-i got answers in a matter of 24 hrs or even 1-3 hours (during working hours) You got a search engine-you can search you backups like google search engine
Cons: Its a small (but growing) company from Italy You cannot delete folder I marked Desktop as backup folder, and if i download something to desktop, memopal starts immediately backing it up, its nice and can be annoying if you download crap to your desktop
Conclusion: This backup solution works like Apple time machine/Gmail approach, that means dont delete anything, just let the service back up what you need.
This company is hungry for success and does allot of things right to the point
i ussed mozy and i found out the hard way that it stopped backing up my email content and addresses 16 months ago. real bummer!!!
I'm impressed by tarsnap (and surprised it hasn't been mentioned already). It's a one-man band, but the one man is the security officer for FreeBSD, and as a software system, i have far more confidence in it than in any of the flashier operations. It sits on top of S3/EC2, so the infrastructure is solid. It has command-line tools which are built for use with scripting, so making it part of an automatic backup process is straightforward.
The client software doesn't have a GUI or run on Windows. That might be a problem for some people.