Online, Inexpensive and Secure Data Storage? 87
ThePolkapunk asks: "After years of suffering through floppy demagnetizations, hard drive crashes, CDR bit rot and the click of death, I've become fed up with having to take care of my own backups. Does anyone know of a reasonably inexpensive, secure data storage facility accessible online that can store all of my important files with enough redundancy for me to feel safe?"
How 'bout Gmail? (Score:4, Interesting)
Easy (Score:4, Interesting)
my_backup_15-6-2005@yahoo.com
my_backup_16-6-2005@yahoo.com
my_backup_17-6-2005@yahoo.com
my_backup_18-6-2005@yahoo.com
my_backup_19-6-2005@yahoo.com
ad infinitum...
Consider Magneto-Optical (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Inexpensive Online Storage (Score:3, Interesting)
Get another 80 Gig hard drive. They go for about $0.40/Gig with rebates (see www.bensbargains.net). Put it inside your machine or in an external USB enclosure.
Get Norton Ghost, or if you don't want to pay for Norton Ghost, make a Knoppix CD for free and use 'ntfsclone'.
Make exact images of your hard drive once a week. It may not be "online" but it couldn't get much easier.
Cost:
Drive: approx. $32
External USB enclosure: approx. $30
Knoppix: free
Total: $62.
Time to make a ghost/ntfsclone backup: 30 seconds to click GO, then go do something else for an hour.
So for about $5/month you have a simple easy to do backup system.