Comments on: Why online backup doesn’t work in New Zealand

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:40:20 +0000

I’m about to move to an office away from the home for the first time in 15 years and am wanting to backup online – preferably just new daily data. Friend also recommended idrive. How did you get on with the question of new data only backed up and speed?

By: WF

WF — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:44:38 +0000

Online backup does work for a large number of people, however your data requirements exceed what its capable of.

For the small/home office who normally backs up to a USB key (notoriously unreliable) online backup is an easy solution, esp if all they want is accounting data (generally only a couple of megs). For your 90+GB I would look at an external HDD.

@Janine, Lock it is generally quite expensive as they offer insurance on the data. Other NZ providers charge about $1 per GB.

By: Janine

Janine — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:56:31 +0000

I’m currently looking for online storage within NZ and to be honest the prices out there are horrendous. I’ve opted to test a site overseas instead called Idrive with $5US for 150GB… estimate for upload of 1GB was a whopping 7.8 hours!! I’m also on Max/Max with Orcon and that was at 300kps upload speed. Luckily I don’t have anywhere near the 92GB’s that you do but still.

I also don’t know yet if I upload the data. Next time will it upload that same data again from scratch or will this just upload any data that has changed from x date… hmm.

It’s a race going no where. I can’t bring myself to pay $200 for 200MB datastorage within NZ (lock-it.co.nz) and I can’t stand waiting that large amount of time to backup my data.

Will let you know how I get on as I’m just installed it at the moment.