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digitalderbs writes:
"A perennial problem facing computer users is how to keep documents, pictures, music and other personal files synchronized between computers. Robust uni-directional solutions, like rsync, and bi-directional solutions, like unison, have existed for a long time. However, these tools require some degree of manual intervention on a periodic basis. Simplified tools like Dropbox and bittorrent sync have emerged as popular, useful and automated alternatives, but these rely on closed-source software, which could be subject to backdooring. Open source solutions, like OwnCloud, are gaining traction, but are these open source platform robust and easy enough to maintain for routine and daily use? Moreover, distributed and encrypted file systems, like Ceph, are increasingly easy to use, but many of these do not work between Linux and OS X or Windows operating systems. What are your experiences and thoughts?"
(Score: 3, Interesting) by mojo chan on Tuesday March 25 2014, @04:40AM
SpiderOak is okay if you only have a small amount of data, but if you have lots the cost very quickly ramps up. In that sense it isn't really a backup solution, it is a cloud storage solution for you to keep your working files on. For backup you want something that offers a lot more space, ideally unlimited.
BackBlaze, LiveDrive Backup and many more offer this. I also found Backup Lizard... Sounds iffy but they charge only $3/month for unlimited storage and claim to encrypt.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 25 2014, @11:44AM
I've not used SpiderOak, but their business plans claim unlimited storage for no price increase (seems to be based on number of users, not storage). They also say unlimited historical versions, which I find doubtful. That means I can request my data from Sep 14, 2007 at 11:53 am 20 years from now and they won't blink an eye??