Comments on: Add-In:KeepVault WHS beta 2.1 – An online backup service for your WHS

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Unlimited Online Backup for Windows Home Server « MS Windows Home Server — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:56:32 +0000

[...] Unlimited Online Backup for Windows Home Server November 5th, 2007 — Philip Churchill Proxure, has officially announced KeepVault for Windows Home Server. The KeepVault family of products let users automatically backup all of their media files online for storing, managing and anywhere access as we discussed here. [...]

By: Philip Churchill

Philip Churchill — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:09:03 +0000

Thanks all for your comments. MDS I agree off-site storage needs the capacity of 200-400GB just for the avarage user these days. Thanks to Davis Clark I shall be having a closer look at http://www.jungledisk.com/ for my off-site backups as well as software solutions including Second Copy as recommended by Colin Hodgson. I also like MattP’s suggestion something similar to http://www.crashplan.com/ and http://foreversafe.com/home.page but as an add-in for WHS users.

By: MattP

MattP — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:51:49 +0000

I was thinking about this just the other day… Wouldn’t it be nice if you could “share” 5,10,100GB with your friends and family who also have WHS, and in turn share 5,10,100GB with you?

Create an add-in that would sync all of your important data to one or all of those friends and family WHS, and vice versa. Make sure the connection is SSL and the remotely stored files are encrypted. Add to that scheduling and bandwidth throttling.

“Free” off site backups, while probably not as safe as one of these pay services, if you could replicated that remote data to multiple friends/family availability would be quite high.

By: David Clark

David Clark — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:50:52 +0000

Ah sorry I misunderstood what second copy does, you need your own network storage. Jungledisk seems like a much better option and Amazon S3 is really cheap, have you seen the pricing?

Dave

By: David Clark

David Clark — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 08:46:28 +0000

Colin, Is there just a one off cost for second copy (it seems that way on their web site). Surely they must charge for data?

Dave

By: Colin Hodgson

Colin Hodgson — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:56:57 +0000

A few folders of family photos/videos will soon eat into the available space!

I’ve found Second Copy a better bet, it will work over the internet and I have mine set up to do most folders every 24hrs and some ‘work’ related folders every 6hrs to a NAS device on my Brothers network in Derbyshire while he backs up his to a NAS here in Cambridgeshire.

Not integrated into WHS, but runs as a Service and easy to set up.

Colin

By: David Clark

David Clark — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:41:23 +0000

Why not take a look at JungleDisk at http://ww.jungledisk.com It uses amazons S3 hosting service and is therefore very cheap and reliable.

Dave

By: MDS

MDS — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:32:20 +0000

Looks good. especially like the way that it is fully integrated into WHS to save any tricky setup.

I have always had the worry that if i relie upon my WHS to look after all of my computers’ backups and for central file storage and access to allow filesharing, how much trouble will i be in if the WHS dies. Okay duplication takes care of hard drive crashes but what if there is a fire, or as has been the case in the UK recently, a flood, and everything is lost. Online offsite backup fixes this, but not while limiting to only 13GB and even then its not that cheap.

I really hope we will see the oportunity for mass off site online storage soon, in the realms of 200-400 GB if not more. The first upload will take a long time, but if it is staged it shouldn’t be too bad, then further updates will only be on amended files.