Best Online Backup

Making daily backups to the site/server/data is very important as someday (and it WILL happen) when the hardware will fail and you wont have any backup of your data. Now the problem with indicidual hardware backups is that someday they too fail!

For example, you are keeping all the backups on your local system and if that fails, then you will lose all your backups. In this case, you may want to look at online backup solutions as second line of defense. So even if your server fails as well as personal hardware fails, you will still be having backups on a 3rd party network from which you can easily retrieve it.

Such 3rd Party backup is provided by various online services and websites for a small charge of money. Here is the list of Best Online Backup

1. bqbackup - bqbackup is an online utility which takes backup on of your server/website on daily basis and keeps it safe with them. Like many other online backup websites, bqbackup also uses “rsync” unix feature. For as little as $5/month (10 GB disk space) you can get your all the files from your server in sync with bqbackup server.

2. RSync - RSync with only $1.6/month for 1 GB Disk space and with unlimited bandwidth, provides a cheap solution for Online Backups.

3. Mozy – Mozy is offering its online backup services from $4.95/month with first 2 GB for Free. We have not tested it but it looks to be fairly popular (may be because its heavily marketed). They do provide some additional features like insurance on your data etc.

4. Carbonite – Carbonite is another online backup service comparable to mozy and charges $4.95/month.