Acronis Online Backup Promotion

[Reid Kistler]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.acronis.com/promo/acronis-online-backup/index.html?source=us_google&ad=acronis+online+backup&c=3330672227&k=acronis online backup&gclid=CN_uwMjMxZ8CFQ4hDQodongOdg' target='_blank'>http://www.acronis.com/promo/acronis-online-backup/index.html?source=us_google&ad=acronis+online+backup&c=3330672227&k=acronis online backup&gclid=CN_uwMjMxZ8CFQ4hDQodongOdg</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Protect your digital life and valuable information with the new Acronis Online Backup service featuring 250 GB storage space in a highly protected online vault! Now the backup and recovery process is much more convenient than ever before - you can backup your critical files to your online personal safety deposit box from up to 5 PCs or laptops and download any of those files remotely from any Internet-connected PC.&nbsp; We are happy to offer you the annual subscription to this new service only <a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/online-backup/" target="_blank">for $29.95</a>.... This is a limited time special introductory promotion expiring February 15th."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1264620792.usr19541.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>Data backup is something that we all know we should do, but too often overlook. And gone are the days when a handful of floppies - or even CDROMs - are sufficient for the task. Acronis markets a number of&nbsp;products, for both <a href="http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/" target="_blank">business</a> and <a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/" target="_blank">home</a> use, with an emphasis on data backup and recovery applications. Until Febraury 15 they are offering a nice discount on their Online Backup service, which appears to have a good feature set, as well as a 30-day <a href="https://www.acronis.com/my/online-backup/index.html?q=try" target="_blank">Free Trial </a>if you wish to try it out first. We have always done cross-system backups, along with burning the odd CD/DVDROM (or floppy!) for selected data,&nbsp;and recently added&nbsp;an automated external hard drive backup unit, but these are largely tied to a single physical location and thus open to possible simultaneous loss - something an online solution would avoid. What backup method(s) do you employ? And, does an online solution seem attractive, or not?</p>

[Chris Gohlke]

I mirror daily to a second internal drive. I also backup to an external drive (I have two) which I rotate to a locked filing cabinet at my place of business for offsite storage. My photos are additionally uploaded to smugmug as an extra backup.

[Jason Dunn]

Mozy all the way! (http://www.mozy.com/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=30184&m=4&i=75) [Affiliate] I have 380 GB backed up there now, so in a worst case scenario (house burns down, robbers take every computer and hard drive here), all the things I care about are protected. For less than $5 a month, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't go this route. It's a no brainer!

[ptyork]

For less than $5 a month, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't go this route. It's a no brainer!

Perhaps if you wanted to run the backup process on your WHS box since it serves as your onsite backup repository or simply your consolidation point for a bunch of important files spread throughout your home? Mozy's policy of charging corporate rates for a license to run on WHS is senseless. Great pricing and a reputable company, but a very bad policy.

In the past MozyHome didn't even support backing up files on a network share (which would be the alternative to running the process on WHS itself). Does it now support this?

[Jason Dunn]

Perhaps if you wanted to run the backup process on your WHS box since it serves as your onsite backup repository or simply your consolidation point for a bunch of important files spread throughout your home? Mozy's policy of charging corporate rates for a license to run on WHS is senseless. Great pricing and a reputable company, but a very bad policy. In the past MozyHome didn't even support backing up files on a network share (which would be the alternative to running the process on WHS itself). Does it now support this?

You're correct - they don't support either of those things. They don't have a WHS client, and consider WHS a "business server", and they don't support network drives. What I do to get around this is pretty simple though: I use a combination of Live Sync and SyncBackSE to push around my files to an external hard drive attached to one of my computers, and the backups on the external drive get backed up to Mozy. Works like a charm.

I'd switch in a heartbeat to another service if they had a native WHS client and comparable rates. I think most of the backup companies are afraid to support WHS though - they fear it will be too much data...(just guessing).

[BelgiumGuy]

I decide two weaks ago to try some online backup service. I may only agree with Jason. If you data has some value. Insure them for 50$ a year is a no-brainer decision.

I tried Carbonite but forgot it has it was not possible to backup an external HD wich I needed.

Tried Mozy that seems fine, but found an other alternative to try.

I'm actually testing Crashplan as I really like the way they sold their solution.

Free client that able you to backup on an other PC, an external disk, the PC of a friend or ... online if you pay 50$ a year. Perfectly nice and clean. It may not be as nicely integrated with windows than Mozzy though. The limit of the free client is that it will not backup in real time (on PC, external HD, ...) but 'only' daily. But it is probably enough for all private usage. 30days trial unlimited volume also.

Happy till now, I will probably buy it when trial expires. I'm also considering installing it on family PC where there is not not much gB to backup. The free soft, a cheap external drive, a backup remotly on my own PC. A very good solution for a one time coste of 60/70$ (price of an external HD).

[Jason Dunn]

I'm actually testing Crashplan as I really like the way they sold their solution. Free client that able you to backup on an other PC, an external disk, the PC of a friend or ... online if you pay 50$ a year.

I like the look of Crashplan as well - I took a look at them last year. Interesting solution I'd say!

[Spooof]

I love Acronis True Image and it has saved our bacon a number of times; however we have had some large issues with the advanced server stuff. Based on the quality control and the length of time it took them to fix them I don't think that I would trust my personal cloud storage to Acronis.

[Reid Kistler]

I love Acronis True Image and it has saved our bacon a number of times; however we have had some large issues with the advanced server stuff. Based on the quality control and the length of time it took them to fix them I don't think that I would trust my personal cloud storage to Acronis.

One of the larger computing magazines had trouble with the previous version of the Acronis Online Backup application - enough to rate it only 2 out of 5 stars - but their problems seemed to primarily be associated with Windows XP.

Disappointing to hear you have had problems - and even more that they were slow in getting resolved. That is certainly not what one would hope for in a "Mission Critical" app, nor from a company that seems as well established as Acronis...