Blog Just Cloud: a terrible backup service

[Jedibeeftrix]

Originally Posted by AmEv

If you have your own server you want to use, OwnCloud..

You own the HDDs, as much space as you can afford to purchase.

Do note you need access to a server....

+1 for owncloud and the ownclient client app.

[Alperian]

Good article. These companies wreak havoc and lay waste to poor users and hopefully Google will pick this article up organically speaking and force improvements. I got to the stage with JustCloud of installing their application and getting the tiny free space (7GB??-can't remember). Anyhow, I realized that this was not the service that I had been looking for when I saw all the extras as you say.

I am waiting for the 500GB sweet spot to come down to $10.00/mth. That is when I will jump in. That will probably be with Google or Amazon I suppose.

[liratheal]

I use Spideroak.

Not as cheap as some ($100 a year for 100gb), but it's zero knowledge on their part, so your data is inaccessible to them which appeals to me.

A few customers use Crashplan, that seems pretty effective too. The rest.. Meh. Don't apply - I wanted the ability to sync two folders on different machines, and at the time I went to spideroak nothing offered that for the same money. Windows live mesh/skydrive did, but that just kept failing to install.

[wiak]

i can recommend Cloudberry Online Backup and Amazon S3
with amazon glacier you can store vast amout of data for ponies!
http://www.cloudberrylab.com/amazon-...ne-backup.aspx
http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2012/1...3-data-to.html



you can even store backups to google storage or microsoft cloud storage, take your pick and let it run

[wiak]

Originally Posted by PingCrosby

I'm still using Floppy Disks, am I missing something here?

ooh, so you still use those 5" pankakes or are you using the cute 8"?

[JuMpErFLY]

I've recently been looking at online storage/backup services and came across JustCloud. Still not made a decision on who I'm going with, but I did sign up for the free account with JustCloud to see what it's like. I was completely put off by the fact that they have sent me 8 emails across 9 days as I still haven't downloaded the app, mainly offering me increasing discounts and telling me my computer is at risk of viruses. This was enough to put me off.

I'm currently considering idrive or idrivesync or perhaps crashplan.

[wiak]

Originally Posted by JuMpErFLY

I've recently been looking at online storage/backup services and came across JustCloud. Still not made a decision on who I'm going with, but I did sign up for the free account with JustCloud to see what it's like. I was completely put off by the fact that they have sent me 8 emails across 9 days as I still haven't downloaded the app, mainly offering me increasing discounts and telling me my computer is at risk of viruses. This was enough to put me off.

I'm currently considering idrive or idrivesync or perhaps crashplan.

did you check out cloudberry online backup with amazon s3?, its a nice combo, i have used it for years, the data is stored at amazon, and they have a little treat, sometimes they give home users a free license

[MjFrosty]

I've had a similar experience with Live Drive. The client side software is horrific, as is their whole package. I opened a reseller package for 50 different people, only later to find out unless you pay the additional £35 per user for the 'briefcase' feature, it was merely a mirror, not a backup.

Removing external drives would then on next process remove said drive from the cloud. If you wanted to retrieve it, you'd then have to go through the cloud recycle bin and restore them (slowly)

Total con.

[jb0]

Originally Posted by Big_malc

upgrade to the USB movement

Seriously. I bought a USB floppy drive and never looked back.