Good points on the incremental nature after the initial transfer.
I have prevailed upon neighbours in the past, but the dropping off and
collecting becomes annoying for everyone if I do it every time we're
away for a night (which is when I worry about break-ins).
James
On 19 Sep 2008, at 01:53, Moose wrote:
> James R wrote:
>> .... But at what size level of files to be backed up does the thing
>> become so slow as to unworkable?
>> With my mediocre 2Mb download and 256k upload it seems a daunting
>> task to upload my 670Gb of data on my backup drive. I make that 726
>> hours to upload or about 30 days. And that's without any network
>> slowdown. Carbonyte's 15 day trial wouldn't be much use.
>>
> I'm not planning to use on-line at this time. However, if I were to do
> so, I would use an incremental back-up strategy.
>
> I'm in the same speed situation as you are for upload speed, so the
> initial load(s) would be very long. But subsequent back-ups of new and
> altered files would be much quicker, especially if done often, shich
> is
> not a bad plan anyway.
>
>> It's great news that the service exists though. I currently take my
>> 1Tb backup hard drive with me when I leave home for any significant
>> time (it went for a nice two week holiday in Brittany this summer),
>> but I still need something off-site.
>>
> That sounds to me like inviting a loss from car, hotel room, whatever.
> Isn't there someone with a secure home who can babysit it?
>
> Moose
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