Anyone used Livedrive? $16/mo for 2 TB offsite storage

[Rajahal]

Livedrive Briefcase

 

$16 per month for 2 TB of offsite storage.  They also have a backup deal that is $8 per month and offers unlimited storage.  Seems too good to be true...  Anyone use it?

[swells]

I haven't seen that one, but I have been looking into a few different options lately for backing up off-site. I have seen other offers that seem too good, such as the backblaze service $5/mo unlimited backup. http://www.backblaze.com/

 

They also have a couple of interesting blog write-ups about their custom storage solution.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

[c234rmf]

I highly recomend CrashPlan for backups.

The family plan is $6.00 a month for up to 10 computers with unlimited storage if you buy 4 years at a time.

Single computers are $2.92 a month with unlimited storage if you buy 4 years at a time.

(these are the personal rates)

I works with UnRaid.

I have all of my pc's backing up to my unRaid server and the cloud.

I have my unRaid server backing up to the cloud.

You can backup to your computers or a friends computer over the internet for free.

Works for winBlow$ (32 and 64 bit versions) , solaris, Linux and Mac

 

And they are running 10% off right now ....

https://www.crashplan.com/consumer/store-holiday.vtl

(man I wish I could get a comission for all the peeps i send there way)

 

 

[WallaceTech]

Whats the deal with this? If you are backing everything up to unRaid do you only need a single licence?

[c234rmf]

I have the 10 computer plan.

Backing up to UnRaid fast.

Backing up over the internet slow.  I only have 512kbps uplink to the internet.

 

[nickcardwell]

Livedrive Briefcase

 

$16 per month for 2 TB of offsite storage.  They also have a backup deal that is $8 per month and offers unlimited storage.  Seems too good to be true...  Anyone use it?

 

YEs i use livedrive, works very well

 

HOWEVER! you can setup yourself as a reseller, for £40 a month you can sign up as many people as you want and you charge whatever you want, and they get unlimited storage!

 

I spoke to them on the phone, and if i signed up 100 people charging £20 a year  (£2k a year), and they each put on 1TB each (100Tb)  all it would cost me is £40 *12= £480

 

more info http://www.livedrive.com/ForResellers/Pricing

 

they also do a NAS backup  at £5 a month, its not worth it, you better (in windows 7 ) point your library to your NAS, then in windows 7 backup the library.

[opentoe]

I haven't seen that one, but I have been looking into a few different options lately for backing up off-site. I have seen other offers that seem too good, such as the backblaze service $5/mo unlimited backup. http://www.backblaze.com/

 

They also have a couple of interesting blog write-ups about their custom storage solution.

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/

 

I used the free trial with Backblaze and it worked well. You really can't beat their price either. They PROMISE their price will never go above $5/month, but that was of course before all the hard drive delays. We'll just have to wait and see. They can keep prices down because their servers are all consumer purchased hardware. No "enterprise" class stuff here. When Amazon/EMC uses a $20,000 server Backblaze uses a $7000 one. Check their blogs out. Very interesting read.

 

[c234rmf]

Not to ding backblaze but CrashPlan IMHO is superior to backblaze.

If you have not really looked closely you may have missed crashplan features.

 

Here is one difference:

Deleted Files

Backblaze will keep versions of a file that changes for up to 30 days. However, Backblaze is not designed as an additional storage system when you run out of space. Backblaze mirrors your drive. If you delete your data, it will be deleted from Backblaze after 30 days.

 

How long does CrashPlan keep deleted files?

Unless you tell CrashPlan otherwise, CrashPlan keeps deleted files forever

 

[johnm160]

Don't forget you also get 25GB free storage with your microsoft live account on their skydrive.

 

[ashaneil]

Another pro for CrashPlan:

You can pretty much back up any file you want, including *.exe files. Quite a few backup offerings limit the files types to be backed up. You can over this behavior but it is on a per folder setting (and it does not apply to the child folders). Only exception - if your friend is backing his data to you via CrashPlan or you are backing up another computer to the one with CrashPlan, you can not backup this data i.e. you cannot backup data already backed up using CrashPlan software. Tried it and failed miserably. Other than that, cannot say enough good things about it.

[ashaneil]

Oh Another option is Rackspace. If you do not want unlimited backup, check out Rackspace's Cloud Files (15c for gb - have to use specific software to access drive) or Cloud Drive ($4 for first 10Gb, 15c per Gb after that). Biggest difference between the two is the way you access your data. Cloud Files is accessed via API. You can also you apps like CyberDuck or Lockerz whereas Cloud Drive uses Rackspace's client application.

 

I use Rackspace for my important files that I may need access to anytime, from anywhere.