Top Online Backup Services Reviewed and Rated

Increasingly online backup services have adopted synchronisation features as standard in their various backup plans. In this article I will closely examine how synchronisation works, and discuss the benefits and the pitfalls. Synchronisation is the process of allowing two or more computers to mirror the data stored within their storage devices. It can take place [...]

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Online storage customers will be aware that the initial backup is the most time consuming backup around, because let’s face it we don’t all have blistering fast internet speeds where we can benefit from super fast uploads. If you’re uploading using a standard DSL connection for anything around 20GB and above, it will take a [...]

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I have a prediction, I think in less than a year from now, (12 months), the internet will become the primary entertainment source for the home. Cable and satellite TV will be replaced with internet based TV, thanks in part due to super fast internet speeds. Furthermore, I predict that data storage online will become [...]

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Unlimited storage services are extremely helpful, particularly people who use large amounts of data, for video editing, movies and other large media files. Unlike backup services that offer limited storage space, with unlimited online storages services you do not have to worry about running out of space and managing which files get upload and which [...]

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From all of our testing we’ve come to the conclusion that the best online backup service is SugarSync, and to tell you the truth it wasn’t an easy decision to make. Because there’s no single online backup provider that scores highly on all areas, usually there are pros and cons with every service, and it’s [...]

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Carbonite is the award winning backups provider, and has some pretty impressive features, it’s basic home package includes unlimited storage space, encrpytion and the whole host of useful features we’ve come to appreciate from online backup services. While most online backups providers have been focusing on providing extravagant backup policies such as unlimited storage space, [...]

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It’s become customary lately for online backup services to provide 2GB of free backup space, Mozy, SugarSync, Dropbox, ElephantDrive and Carbonite all provide 2GB of free storage space, no strings attached. And 2GB of free storage space is great. However OpenDrive offers 5GB of FREE storage space, they boast over 1 million users so you [...]

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We are going to review five of the best offsite backup solutions, and in case you were wondering what offsite backups are, they’re a great way to safeguard or backup your data in a way so that your files are stored on a separate location to where you are situated. Offsite backup can be both [...]

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Web users have started to realise [thanks in part to super fast internet connections] that backing up files online is a convient and fast way to secure your data in the cloud, as is commonly known today. So what are the benifits of online backup solutions? Allows you to backup your files without fiddling with [...]

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After studying numerous online PC backup systems, we’ve come to the conclusion that SugarSync deserves the price for the best online backup provider. It was a two horse race between Mozy and SugarSync and we decided to that SugarSync just nicks the title with the live data synchronisation service, which beats all online PC backup [...]

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