Cloud Backuo?

[AngelSpeaks]

What do you use? I currently use Carbonite but creating a download takes forever, even for smaller folders way belong the maximum. I'm using brand new computers and Xfinity. Nothing else is turned on.

 

[Isaac]

I use google drive for desktop. it's a synch, not a copy, but that works for me

 

[The_Doc_Man]

On my new computer, I use a stick drive and a batch script that copies the contents of my critical folders. It's a USB 3.0 stick with pretty high capacity, so it has a very fast copy rate. I also know that I only need about 15 GB for everything and a 32 GB stick is pretty cheap. A lot cheaper than the yearly subscriptions to any of the commercial cloud-based file backup services. I absolutely DO NOT trust the privacy of any cloud setup.

 

[Minty]

We use a iDrive account. It has a cost associated with it, but is operated as a Scheduled Incremental back up, with recovery possible to any point in time in the history available.

It appear to be quick and painless to operate, I have approx. 115GB of files backed up in total.
You can also have it Sync in real time, but I don't need that. I have a decent internet connection and as it only stores changes the backups are generally quite small (under 200MB) and normally takes under a minute.

Restoring is simple and easy. The UI is clean and straight-forward to use.

 

[AngelSpeaks]

I use google drive for desktop. it's a synch, not a copy, but that works for me

Will that work for a total or partial restore?

 

[Steve R.]

I use a WD Elements 8TB USB drive. I'm tempted to buy a SanDisk 1TB Extreme PRO USB 3.2 Solid State Flash Drive, as that would be large enough to hold an image of my hard drive. I'm also contemplating buying an internal Western Digital 10TB drive specifically to backup my files (not the operating system files) since I can run an automated scrip to back-up the files. With the USB drive, have to manually attach.

 

[AccessBlaster]

I use Seagate external drive for system images and for the occasional folder backup.