The advantage to amazon was the price, which is drastically lower than
other options - I've actually used Carbonite but found it too easy to
remove data - if I removed it from my computer to a CD, for example,
it didn't stay on Carbonite very long - they don't like backing up
more than your actual computer's worth of data. This was a few years
ago, and it may have improved - I had Carbonite free in college but
only found it worth buying for one year before I gave it up
(personally).
I see the Amazon Glacier service as a different kind of service. Yes,
you have to set things to upload, but if there aren't scripts
available to automate it via AWS, I imagine there will be shortly -
Amazon is very developer friendly and those scripts will become widely
available.
I was bringing this up because it's 100% new, and it's ALWAYS a good
idea to remind each other to back things up - whatever our chosen
method. =)
Alice
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Suzanne Shephard <kysearcher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alice, I couldn't get the site URL that you sent, to open but
I've looked
into Carbonite too and it seems like an excellent choice. Just have to
figure how to work it into my budget :)
Suzanne Shephard
Stafford Co., VA
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Ray Gurganus <ray(a)gurganus.org> wrote:
> If I read it right, you still need to do the uploading yourself? If I'm
> missing something, please correct me. I use Carbonite for my backups. I
> like it in that it's all automatic. I point it to the folders on my local
> computer (including the folders containing cemetery photos, website files,
> etc.), and the backup happens 100% behind the scenes. It sees as soon as
> something changes, and it handles the backup automatically. If it's up to
> me to do it, it probably doesn't happen. :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Alice (Warner) Brosey <
> embryproject(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I don't know about you, but I have a large amount of data to be backed
> > up - cemetery photos I've taken, many other scanned documents,
> > personal files, et cetera.
> >
> > Today on my newsfeed I saw about Amazon Glacier
> >
http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ (No, I don't work for Amazon and I'm
> > not getting a kickback for writing to you all about it). I am planning
> > to sign up for this service and use it as my "serious backup" for if
> > something happened to my sites and backups - many things I've recorded
> > have been damaged and can't be re-done - so it's important for me to
> > have these backups.
> >
> > I wanted to mention this because others might find this of just as
> > applicable use.
> >
> > Alice Brosey
> >
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