I may try getting a bank safe deposit box, but I suspect many of them are too small to hold, say, 3 or 4 3.5″ hard drives. Cheapest services now offer a 2’x5′ space – completely unnecessary for hard drives – at $50/month. I wish someone in town would offer the same sort of service BoxBee used to – $7.50/month per 1 cubic foot storage box with free pickup and $20-30 delivery. It doesnt have the sort of user-friendly, consumer-level. Data de-duplication both on back-end storage and over the net. Carbonite is a cloud backup service in the style of Backblaze protect all the data youve got on as many computers as you need. Must allow user/engineer to perform file level recovery unassisted. Must store backups on company owned hardware (cloud in addition is ok if encrypted). About 60 buys peace of mind annually from any of them. Must provide for point-in-time recovery of systems. After test driving CrashPlan, Carbonite, SOS, and BackBlaze, Fowler awarded top marks to CrashPlan. Code42’s CrashPlan offers 256-bit encryption for all plans, with two-factor authentication and single sign-on. I was considering storing my earlier archive backups to a service like BoxBee – but they’ve gone out of the self-storage business, which basically leaves me with no inexpensive offsite option. Requirements: Must provide for bare-metal recovery of systems. Carbonite provides standard 128-bit security for all plans, with an option to upgrade to 256-bit. I’d consider it if more services offered mail-in hard drive uploads but even that tends to be $100 expense. But trying to store gigabytes in the cloud takes forever at the usual DSL upload speeds. I might consider using one or more of my several cloud accounts – that I’ve never used so far – for certain critical data as an additional precaution. The last one’s price is 108.33 for 500GB of storage space per month. The second one charges 66.67 per month for 500GB. The first plan costs 24 per month for 250GB of backup space for up to 25 computers. I’ll stick with my hard drive docking stations for backup, thank you. The Carbonite Safe Backup Pro option offers Safe Core, Safe Power, and Safe Ultimate plans.
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