Live Mesh and Skydrive are both offerings from Microsoft. If you have a hotmail, msn, or live e-mail account, then you already have a Skydrive account as well. If you have a live space, you do too (for those who don’t use Microsoft’s e-mail but do use Live Spaces). Also, […]
Online Backups
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While not as quick and painless in setting up as Mozy was, iDrive appears to be a robust backup system as well. It offers the option of Continuous Backup, which will continually update 50MB of data that you select. The setup was a little different than Mozy in that you […]
I finally downloaded Mozy tonight and am running it on my computers. The installation took about 5 minutes or so (prolonged because it had to roll back a failed install that I didn’t know I had). Then I was prompted with a configuration window. Mozy did a pretty good job […]
This is part one in a series of posts about online backup systems. I’m going to look at what’s available, how much they cost, what limits are put on the user, and methods of accessing the system (clients). Also I’ll discuss the ease of use of each system. The main […]