Comments on: Hands on with HP's online backup application, Upline

Not a bad backup application, but it won't solve all your needs.

[phpseo]

Too bad it's painfully slow. Don't plan on backing up large files unless you have a lot of time .
Thanks
Sachin

[phpseo]

Too bad it's painfully slow. Don't plan on backing up large files unless you have a lot of time .
Thanks
Sachin

[redfoxtx]

As it's from a trusted vendor and the price point seems quite good, it all sounds pretty good.

phpseo, could you elaborate on how much use you've had out of it to make such a comment?

[One-Eared Gundark]

Although the idea sounds great, I'll agree with phpseo: we need faster upload speeds to really take advantage of this.

While my download speeds with my broadband provider are quick, the upload is stuck at 384kb/s. If I achieve maximum upload speed (not bloody likely), it would take about six hours and 12 minutes to upload a 1GB backup file. My backup files are typically closer to 3GB.

This has nothing to do with the backup service, but everything to do with the throttled upload speeds from broadband providers. The longer that transfer takes, the more likely you are to get a transmission error.

[gary85739]

So, it takes longer than you want. What doesn't? Just run it all night,over the weekend,etc...

or...buy a big external HD, find a good program that backs up your stuff as needed, learn to use it...


btw, that big external HD will eventually crash, course this service might crash or ...just go away too...wonder which will happen first...you already know!

[meethil]

Adding new/external HDDs is all fine (refering to gary85739) when you are not concerned with off-shore backup, i.e. when you need to backup data at a different physical location to save it from natural disasters. I have huge amounts of data (1TB plus) that i would like to back up at a different physical location. But am concerned about the security of such data on a data storage server. Since i would be backing-up RAW/TIFF files (being a photographer) the concern that these files maybe downloaded at the other end and misused does worry me. And yes, FTP access (or a custom upload client that is able to provide good upload speeds) and upload speed are also of great importance. What does anyone have to say about the security of data on such storage servers? Thanks, meethil.

[RHPAMD]

This comment is excellent and echoes my concerns regarding backups- I have sufficient backup capability in the house (laptop, 2 desktops, external HDD) but this is of no use if there is a natural disaster or break in. Sending the files somewhere has its own risks. I would trust HP more than most BUT Bank of America lost files on several million customers.
I am arranging an agreement with a neighbor and good friend to mutually keep each others files with passwords, probable encryption, etc. Works for me.

[akucharski]

I tired to register since Sunday, - it was down for "temporary maintenance" - its Thursday now and the registration process is finally available.

Also got javascript pop up verification messages during registrations that didn't refer to the field in error. Seems very sloppy. I'm already skeptical, must be run by a third party that doesn't have its S*&^ together.

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