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#615589 26-Apr-2012 18:14

Definately go cloud. Even if it costs more from your ISP.

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#615635 26-Apr-2012 19:52

kontonnz: delete on skydrive can not be undone they even pop up a dialog warning you that it can't...

they do have versioning of office documents tho

No I can confirm that deleting a file on Skydrive puts it into the recycle bin on my computer. Yes there is a warning but still it goes into the recycle bin. So its all good after all.

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#615658 26-Apr-2012 20:56

No I can confirm that deleting a file on Skydrive puts it into the recycle bin on my computer. Yes there is a warning but still it goes into the recycle bin. So its all good after all.

yes but that is local only not the cloud storage that your able to recover from, the deleted file is removed permanently from cloud storage, but if you use the shell extension then yes it would go to your computers recycle bin because the file you deleted will delete the "local copy" and the "cloud copy" .

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#615661 26-Apr-2012 20:59

It is good enough for a free option.

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#615812 27-Apr-2012 07:28

A few of the customers I deal with use it and it seems to work. All in all, worth trying around with.

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#615833 27-Apr-2012 08:20

How much data does he have, how much does he produce per month on average, and how good is his internet connection?

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#616209 27-Apr-2012 18:23

nate: I had Acronis Backup on his computer, and he was supposed to rotate 2x 1TB external hard-drives. It seems every time he plugs them in (WinXP) they change drive letters, which breaks the backup.

just as an aside: if you encrypt the partition with TrueCrypt (you can make the password as convenient as you like if you're more interested in ease of use than protection), then you always get to decide which drive letter that encrypted virtual drive will be presented as, and it won't matter what drive the device itself shows up as.

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#616213 27-Apr-2012 18:30

nate:
freitasm: Backup strategy that requires swapping drives is doomed to fail at some point.

Online backup. Crashplan. That's all.

Too many photos and too much data.

if we're talking exclusively a backup, not external storage (where you have some things on the backup you don't also keep locally), is there any reason it's out of the question to just quick format the old data and drag-drop the current data for backup? (it may take time, but at least it's time you don't have to sit around and muck about with updating folders in backup programs)

if you incrementally replace all data (say, once a month) then your more frequent updates to the backup don't need to be organized at all -- you could just run a search on 'files modified/created/etc. in the last n days (however long since the backup was done)', highlight them all to just dump them in a single directory on the backup drive. ...it's not organized the same as locally, but it's a backup, and it's convenient. when you get around to the next monthly backup you'll replace that unorganized backup with a clone of the current state of things.

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#616245 27-Apr-2012 19:46

I can recommend Carbonite, I had it running on a desktop for 2+ years and even utilised it for a full restore when a disk died.

Now I use Cloudberry (the WHS version) backing up to a Amazon S3 account. Totally automatic and they do a (free?) desktop version too (you still have to pay Amazon though).

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