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Online Storage Solutions for Home Users?

Posted by Cliff on from the replacing-tape-with-bandwidth dept.

A not-so-anonymous Anonymous Coward asks: "Like many Slashdot readers, I have accumulated a lot of data over the years. Emails, documents, 'media' etc. Although I try to keep up with backups, I still feel I need some other place where I could dump my data without worrying about hard drive crashes and other problems. Googling reveals that there is a whole slew of online storage providers. But most are around $10 a month with a couple of gigs of space. So what does Slashdot recommend for sites that offer plenty of storage and fit the budget of a poor home user?"

6 of 33 comments (clear)

  1. Aready Covered by jakel2k · · Score: 4, Informative
    Okay this issue has been cover several times in slashdot. Solutions that have been suggested:
    1. Burn to CDs
    2. Burn to DVDs
    3. Buy more HDDs and HDD caddies
    4. Get Tape backups
    5. Upload compressed and encrypted as "Olsen Twins and Britney Spears Sex Tapes.avi
    6. Learn to delete files
  2. etc by XO · · Score: 5, Funny
    Emails, documents, 'media' etc.


    I got about 40GB of unused space that you can transfer all your pr0n to, i'm sure that's what you meant by 'media' eh? :P
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  3. Re:Get an external hardrive by Asgard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    That's why you pipe the tarball through gpg before storing it.

  4. WebDAV compatible by stonebeat.org · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Make sure the online storage space provider that you choose, supports WebDAV . WebDAV will allow you to map these online storage space as drive letters on your Windows, or as mount points on your OS X/Linux.

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    Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
  5. FlashBackup by AlexA · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Check out FlashBackup. They offer 5GB of storage for only $10/mo, which is one of the cheapest deals I've found, and they support FTP, WebDAV and web-based transfers.

  6. Online backup by jvagner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These people:

    http://www.tranxactglobal.com/ ..charge $0.50/gb. Pretty great.