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Anyone have experience with Acronis Online Backup?

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JavaJones:
You're welcome. I have been doing research to figure out my own backup situation after a big data loss issue (fortunately 99% recovered), and CrashPlan looks most applicable to my needs.

You should however be aware that there have been some recent discussion threads on the CrashPlan forums with some concerns about occasional non-restorable file issues. I don't know how widespread these issues are, they seem very isolated, but a lot of noise has been generated by a few users over them. I'm currently reading through the full discussions, e.g. https://crashplan.zendesk.com/entries/140286-silently-corrupted-data

That being said I'm still quite likely to go with CrashPlan.

- Oshyan

kalons:
+1 on CrashPlan.
http://www.kinook.com/blog/?p=64

Fresitleer:
Hello Never tried acronis. Seems to be a good offer though. I don't need that much storage space though. I was curious th eother time and found a couple of online backup tools that are offering free storage space. anyways will look for that one and try it

barney:
ZenOK looks decent, but I bought into CrashPlan  :Thmbsup: earlier in this thread.  It has been exemplary for my needs to date, although it's always nice to have alternatives available  ;).

40hz:
I'm seriously considering Backblaze. You get unlimited (for real) backup storage for $5mo/$50yr.

Couple of caveats:

1. This is strictly a backup solution - not a file sharing service or "cloud" solution.

2. Each account is for one PC. Consequently, there is no support for networked drives although there is apparently no limit to the number of physically installed or attached drives. So while it won't backup a NAS drive you have mapped to your PC, it will handle a full box of SATA or plugged in USB drives.

Of course, if you sync all your home network PCs to a big drive on one of your PCs, and have Backblaze backup that...

The Backblaze client supports Win 32/64bit and Mac OSX. No NIX client as yet. Probably won't be anytime soon. Which is the only thing that has stopped me from signing up so far.

They do offer a free trial. And last time I checked, you didn't need to give them your credit card first just to try it out. (Kudos for that!)

I originally got interested in this company because of some articles they published about their unique storage server design which allows them to offer unrestricted storage for such a low price. Original DoCo forum post here if anybody is curious. Be sure to check out the link to the video where one of the founders discusses their product design and philosophy and gives some insight into their business model.  8)

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