A quick list of the leading online backup services.
Please note: these are what we consider to be the largest, most popular and most prominent online backup services currently available. We endorsing these services or the organisations behind them. We hope to be able to provide reviews of these services, but we’ve got lots to do, so it will all come in good time; if you want to offer your review then please use either the comments box to the base of this post, or feel free to contact us. We really would appreciate your input.
Without further ado, here brief summaries of the leading lights of the online backup world:
| Name | Link to site | Service Summary |
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| Xdrive | www.xdrive.com | Xdrive offers 5Gb of free space controlled by a web-based interface. Features include the ability to share folders and send files to friends, family and colleagues.Professional plans are available at $9.95/month with 50Gb of space and unlimited customer support. |
| Mozy | mozy.com | Mozy offers 2Gb of free space, with unlimited space offered with a $4.95/month home user plan. All accounts are able to use 128-bit SSL encryption when transferring data to the site, and 448-bit blowfish encryption whilst stored on Mozy servers (the key can be either Mozy’s own, or one to be chosen by the user).Professional plans are available. |
| Omnidrive | www.omnidrive.com | Omnidrive offers 1Gb of online space. Many technical features include the unique ability to edit Microsoft Office documents online, and access to the service API (which may be of particular interest to programmers). Omnidrive has bandwidth restrictions on all of its accounts. There is no SSL encryption on free accounts.Standard professional plans range from $40 to $199 per year, for, respectively, 10, 25 and 50 Gb of space. it claims to allow as much space as required, though pricing details for this are unclear. |
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