One of the worse feelings is realizing you’ve lost all your hard work, photos, videos, music, and files you’ve spent years collecting. If you are not backing up your data regularly, you are tempting the technology gods by being a hard drive crash away from complete deletion. Back up your PC at least once a month. Here’s the 5 best free backup services for your data.
Comodo Backup
Comodo Backup features secure data backup, online storage, self-restore, scheduling, and other impressive options for a free service. You can schedule the backup to run anytime you’d like. Recently, Comodo released a backup app for your smartphone so you can save files on-the-go to the cloud.
5GB free online storage for each user, including a free, lifetime license. Pay $100 a year to receive 250GB of online storage.
Clonezilla
Ahhh it’s Clonezilla!! This incredible, free open source tool doesn’t just backup your files, it has the ability to back up EVERYTHING on your PC. It creates a complete clone of the hard drive and operating system so all software remains stored.
A software program like Norton Ghost takes a lot of time to massively clone systems to many computers, while Clonezilla is ideal for cloning quickly. “Clonezilla Live” is suitable for single machine backup and restore; “Clonezilla SE” can clone over 40 computers simultaneously!
Dropbox
A great alternative to the old fashioned hard drive backup is cloud-based Dropbox. Instead of emailing your backup files, transfer and get your files from Dropbox in the unfortunate event your computer crashes. Your files will sync to all of your computers, as well as on the Dropbox servers, so your work is backed up immediately to all your devices once you’ve saved it.
Dropbox provides 2 GB’s of free storage, while you can earn more by recommending them on social media. Dropbox has a premium subscription as well.
OpenDrive
OpenDrive is one of the newer kids on the block. The free online backup service provides powerful backup functionality, online storage capabilities, and file management. OpenDrive does file collaboration right as it supports and syncs secure file editing accessible from anywhere.
5GB of free online storage per user. $10 a month gets you unlimited storage.
ADrive
What ADrive lacks in features, it more than makes up for in space. 50GB free storage per user, but if you pay $5 a month, your service includes online collaboration, 16 GB file size limit (2GB for the free account), FTP client, and an ad-free experience. ADrive just added affiliate and reseller programs if you want to earn some extra cash.
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These seem fine if you don’t have a ton of files. Me, I use Backblaze. I have over a TB of files backed up because I tend to keep everything. But I also have more pictures than some of these services will hold, and that’s just pictures. It backs up any drive I have, which is awesome because I have a couple externals that were initially backup devices until I saw an ad by Mozy that said something like:
“You can backup to an external drive, but what if your house burns down?”
Data gone.
The only complaint I have about the service is that the backup program likes to build it’s list every 15 minutes or so, which causes my computer to act crazy and lock up for a few seconds at a time while the list builds. You can tell it to not backup until a specific time, and it does that, but the list building will continue anyway. According to Backblaze, the only way to get around it is to set it to manual backup, which defeats the purpose of automatic backups. So, it’s either deal with the stall outs every 15 – 20 minutes, or try to remember to back it up myself. Sort of annoying.
Backblaze looks real legit and I like the unlimited data for only $4 a month. I have a few external TB’s, but you’re right about them being useless if your house burns down.
Yeah, the unlimited data is what really caught my attention. Around the time I found them was when Mozy dropped their unlimited version, and I switched over to the F-Secure one that Centurylink was using. That wasn’t bad, especially with the ability to share things that you’ve backed up, but I ran into a problem with the service that isn’t really mentioned much.
They don’t backup external devices.
Since most of my stuff is external, that didn’t work out. In came Backblaze. I also read recently that they post how to make their “backup pods”, and have several pictures of them.
these options seem to be a little bit expensive! I’ve recently switched to Amazon Glacier uploading using Zoolz and it is costing me ($36/year/unlimited)
http://www.zoolz.com
I had used opendrive software but I found RollBack RX software better for more information on this please see here http://www.horizondatasys.com/en/index.aspx
If we in recent days, there are many data breach incidents have taken place, cloud data security concerns are on high. So i am usinge http://www.basefolder.com , this service allows its users to save their important files on their home system and access those files from anywhere. This also has optional cloud storage features.
Online backup is really useful but you need to be very picky at the same time so before I register I usually search for a lot of reviews, right now i got my backup at Pesaro Computer Club Org and so far its pretty good.