Remote backup suggestions?
I recently suffered the pain of an external 250 GB hard drive crash. So I am looking into investing in remote backups.
carbonite.com and mozy.com both look like great value, but they both require users to install their own proprietary software. I’m not really comfortable with that and of course they only support a limited number of platforms.
Are there any remote backup solutions out there like carbonite / mozy that don’t require you to use their software?
So you want online backups, but don’t want it stored in a proprietary format. You may want to look at CloudBerry Backup.
CloudBerry Online Backup provides a powerful Backup and Restore program designed to leverage Amazon S3 storage to make your disaster recovery plan simple, reliable, and affordable.
Jungle Disk is another backup solution that saves the data to Amazon S3 - but watch for the encryption settings. If it’s encrypted with a program, that program will probably have to be used to decrypt it.