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Large backups impractical to Cloud

mcwong 1st Jul 2009

This is very true -- backing up hundreds of
megs to the Cloud is just not practical for
most of us. My cable provider offers download
speeds of ten mbps or so, which is great -- but
upload is very slow.

After trying to upload to Mozy several times,
and finding my system still trying to complete
the upload after three or four days, with no
end in sight, I gave it up. As noted in this
article, Support at Mozy was no help.

I back up to twin external USB drives. Only
problem is the PITA step of putting one in a
fire safe or, as suggested elsewhere, moving it
offsite. For daily or even weekly backups, this
is simply not going to happen for most users.

Real, reliable, "DO-ABLE" backup still remains
to be discovered.
--mac