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by radioactive21 5603 days ago
Any good alternatives? I am nterested in cloud storage for backup.
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I've switched to using Arq for my backups. It's not a service like Mozy/Backblaze, you purchase the Arq client (30 bucks) and then it backs up to your own S3 account.

The fact it is not a service has lots of positive benefits for me:

The company can die and I can still recover my files (there's an open source recovery tool on github - https://github.com/sreitshamer/arq_restore

It also does away with some of the stupid restrictions typically found with Backblaze/Mozy with respect to backing up network drives.

Incremental backups are lightning fast.

It keeps a "Time Capsule" style incremented history of your recently changed files.

One word: Backblaze!
Another word: AltDrive.com - Free two month trial.