VIVILPROJECT (FREE) ONLINE BACKUP LIST
--------------------------------------
* backup / file sharing online list *
(c) 2008-2012 Sébastien WILLEMIJNS
Last version available on http://www.willemijns.com/backup.htm
Thanks a lot to these VivilProject partners, too
who prefer to keep outdated infos...
Below contains the list of free box online storage which also permit to keep your documents for a long term or "for life" in a private area, some services permit to share some of your contents but it is not the first need...
In the last part of this document, you will see some URLs to help you to manage your data as online java splitters, a dictionnary and more and more...
WARNING: Best free services i select in 2011 have referrals links, i have not only choosen them with these requirements oh!
SINCE 2009, LOT OF SERVICES HAS DECREASED THEIR OFFERS, QUICKLY
CLOSED OR HAVE BECOME UNSTABLE/EXPENSIVE
IMHO 2012 WILL NOT BE GOOD EITHER :-(
CHOOSE SEVERAL SERVICES TO UPLOAD SENSITIVE DATAS EXCEPT IF U LOVE RISK.
LIST OF ONLINE BACKUP SERVICES
Just click on the title you want to sort table as you wish ;)
(I'm working on a charter v1.02: By choosing this free account, i agree
(whatever old, actual or new ToS/AUP or price list):
- My free account will be automatically suspended without warning if the free
service is closed and you decide not to upgrade to paid account.
- information and/or data i given is my property and must be private by
default.
- Because these ToS will be regurarly monitored by online tools, the webpage
(a) must be deleted if content becomes not used or outdated AND
(b) can not be changed/blocked/deleted "on the fly" depending of country, IP,
browser/user-agent or other method(s) like
PHP/Ajax/ASP/JS/Java/Flash/Air/Mono/SilverLight scripts or tools which can be
added on the ToS page... in other words, tools i use must give me when i want
real updated ToS webpage than every customer who can read and accept to access
to the service.
- Classical approach as nospam, nowarez (and maybe nosex depending of the
service) are applicable for the end user.
This charter replaces ToS part is valid forever except if you choose a paid
account, the return to a free offer automatically valid again this charter.
This charter also permit to avoid scam / fraud / free trial masked by a 100%
free offer) and give you the guarantee to never pay It is near of mandatory
to print this document to keep a proof coz lot of services can forgot them.
Just click on the title you want to sort table as you wish ;)
(I'm working on a charter v1.02: By choosing this free account, i agree (whatever old, actual or new ToS/AUP or price list):
- My free account will be automatically suspended without warning if the free service is closed and you decide not to upgrade to paid account. - information and/or data i given is my property and must be private by default.
- Because these ToS will be regurarly monitored by online tools, the webpage (a) must be deleted if content becomes not used or outdated AND (b) can not be changed/blocked/deleted "on the fly" depending of country, IP, browser/user-agent or other method(s) like PHP/Ajax/ASP/JS/Java/Flash/Air/Mono/SilverLight scripts or tools which can be added on the ToS page... in other words, tools i use must give me when i want real updated ToS webpage than every customer who can read and accept to access to the service.
- Classical approach as nospam, nowarez (and maybe nosex depending of the service) are applicable for the end user.
This charter replaces ToS part is valid forever except if you choose a paid account, the return to a free offer automatically valid again this charter. This charter also permit to avoid scam / fraud / free trial masked by a 100% free offer) and give you the guarantee to never pay It is near of mandatory to print this document to keep a proof coz lot of services can forgot them.
(I'm working on a charter v1.02: By choosing this free account, i agree (whatever old, actual or new ToS/AUP or price list):
- My free account will be automatically suspended without warning if the free service is closed and you decide not to upgrade to paid account. - information and/or data i given is my property and must be private by default.
- Because these ToS will be regurarly monitored by online tools, the webpage (a) must be deleted if content becomes not used or outdated AND (b) can not be changed/blocked/deleted "on the fly" depending of country, IP, browser/user-agent or other method(s) like PHP/Ajax/ASP/JS/Java/Flash/Air/Mono/SilverLight scripts or tools which can be added on the ToS page... in other words, tools i use must give me when i want real updated ToS webpage than every customer who can read and accept to access to the service.
- Classical approach as nospam, nowarez (and maybe nosex depending of the service) are applicable for the end user.
This charter replaces ToS part is valid forever except if you choose a paid account, the return to a free offer automatically valid again this charter. This charter also permit to avoid scam / fraud / free trial masked by a 100% free offer) and give you the guarantee to never pay It is near of mandatory to print this document to keep a proof coz lot of services can forgot them.
QUICK MEDIAFIRE REVIEW: Since october 2006, Mediafire is one of the oldest file hoster which
Sorry for this actual light table but crisis and high abuses does their jobs.
IDRIVE 150 GB (not the unlimited offer) is one of the best choice ! do not hesitate !!!
JOTTABACKUP (5 GB)("We store every file on multiple servers for maximum redundancy and availability.")
BOX.NET (5 GB) (25MB file size max)
OPENDRIVE (5 GB) (data are on redudant back up on several locations) ("file expire after 30 days of account inactivity and 1 GB/max per day" ?) (upload by mail available)
INBOX (5 GB for CA/UK/US residents else 2 GB) (No backup in free version) (a)
MESH (5 GB) (A Microsoft initiative which differs from Skydrive)
ESNIPS (5 GB)
ADOBE SHARE (5 GB) (a lot of restricted extension) (free upload tool seems to be at http://www.driveoncloud.com)
STARTFORCE (5 GB)
UBUNTUONE (5 GB) (WEB interface available) (price for paid version is very expensive !)
WINGEDBOX (4 GB)
CLOUDME (3 GB) (ex-ICLOUD) (WebDAV) (RAID6 / answered in forums)
HITACHIBACKUP (3 GB)
WUALA (2 GB) (Since October 2011, data are still kept on 3 datacenters) (4MB block-level system)
BONUS URL: Add these promocodes on "Options/Buy storage" software to increase your storage during X years
TIP: To recover a file you've just deleted, activate thanks to the F8 key the "time travel" progress bar.
WUALA is the best choice ! do not hesitate !!!
SMESTORAGE (2 GB) (use "S3") ("send by mail" function for paid version) MYOTHERDRIVE (2 GB) (RAID 6 + "backs up your data offsite in a different facility") (b)
BINFIRE (2 GB)
MYDISK.SE (2 GB)
DROPBOX (2.25 GB instead of 2GB thanks to referral / max 32 referrals to hope 10 GB) ("This service can delete files from free acount") (Use S3) (quick support answer) (paid offer is expensive) (add 768MB free here ?) (Free users files can be deleted without warning !!!)
(Release note) To see last softwares changes, choose TESTING word here
(Purge cache folder) C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Dropboxcache (Windows) or PathToYourDropboxFolder/.dropbox.cache/ (Linux)
Sync others folders than default dropbox folder service) (TRY WITH A TEST DIRECTORY BEFORE PERMANENTLY USE YHIS SOFTWARE ;) (GENERIC COMMANDLINE METHOD EXIST FOR OTHERS SERVICES THAN DROPBOX !)
DROPBOX CRYPTER DIRECTORIES: Linux Method, Windows Method, Windows Method,
THIRD-PARTY DROPBOX APPS/WEBSITES:
DROPITTO.ME, SIDECLOUDLOAD, FILESTORK.NET DropboxPortableAHK
(2 GB free only for 1 year !)
SAFEBERG (2 GB) ("Backup of your backup files happens on a daily basis. We save these backups at a minimum of two different locations")
(Not tested) ELEPHANTDRIVE LITE (2 GB)
(Not tested) YOUSENDIT (2 GB)
(Not tested) YUUWAA (2 GB)
IDRIVESYNC (2 GB)
GOOGLE DOCS (AKA's the famous 3-year awaiting "false-true" GDRIVE / GOOGLE DRIVE / GOOGLEDRIVE) (1GB) (+0.25$/GB/year) (Unlimited and free if documents are transfered on google docs format)
A LIST OF UNLIMITED MULTIMEDIA STORAGE FOR LIFE:
(please notice these services will be never deeply tested by me)
LIST OF IMAGES HOSTERS WHICH PERMITS HOTLINKS (maybe some URLs has been already detailled on this document) :
(1 year of retention if no image views)
(one connection asked every 90 days to keep-alive account)
(down?)
(30 photos per month free)
S3IMAGE (This service use S3 and is not an official service)SOME OUTSIDERS:
BAYIMG (no available contact) (seems in wait state)
PICOY (no available contact) (seems in wait state)
PIXUM CLARKCOLOR RITZPIX PEPHOTO LIFEPICS (another kodakgallery clones ?)
INDYAROCKS (free unlimited multimedia storage ?)
PREZI (display photos, videos, SWF or PDF in a nice manner ;)
ZORPIA (untested free unlimited storage ?)
XTUPLOAD (untested free unlimited image storage ?)
TEXTIVE (untested free unlimited public text storage ?)
PREZI (manage documents as ISSUU ???)
KOFFEEPHOTO (unlimited 4life but does not keep forever high resulution photos)
PICT (free unlimited image storage)
SLIDESERVE (free presentation storage) (unlimited?)
SNAPIXEL (sell or share photos) (use S3)PHOTIE (free unlimited photo storage online ?) (seems dead)
Shareapic.net (free unlimited photo storage online)
DOCQ (Share/edit/view PDF online)
DOXTOP (not tested)
DOCUMANY (a scribit competitor)
IBONTHENET (from OLYMPUS)
PHOTOSWARM
PICNB
(Bonus URL) MIGRATR (move between a lot of popular image sharing services)
WARNING: Some services can reduce quality of your upload or cut your videos sic !
Psssssst.... i give you a trick ;) on some services, you can upload audios file as video ;)
TILANA (IMMEDIATLY AVOID THIS VICIOUS OFFER !) (#5 of BACKUPMAX (offer is on the average * compared to home and business offer they are too many strange and abnormal functions deleted or added)
ZIDDU (down since a lot of days...)
SKYDRIVE by... MICROSOFT ! sic ! (can not download during some days a few files) (Skydrive limits are explained here) At the end of 2011 or in 2012, unlimited storage space for all Office documents and for all photos))
BONUS URL: Use WEBDAV with SKYDRIVE (works only under windows OSes ?)
IN.SOLIT.US (free unlimited but in beta since more than 2 years ! this site is in fact death ! lost files, php errors...)
SWISSDISK (has crashed on October 2009)
OVI ( BIG CRASH, 3 weeks of data loss :-( )
CARBONITE (has lost 54 accounts data on 23rd March 2009, down during 5 hours next day after the outage...)
WORLDGROUPS (Unlimited) (Ask Credit Card !)
NETCIPIA.NET (Unlimited) (does not works / seems dead)
STOREWITH (dead service) (one bug every minute !)
ECPOCKET (too many unknown webpages !)
FILEBURST (cost is too high if you use more than her tiny 100MB offer !)
ZUMODRIVE ("i luv services which jump lot of (easy) threads sic! http://www.zumodrive.com/forums/1/topics/736 http://bit.ly/OoofC http://bit.ly/OuJJP")
MYBLOOP (down) HUDDLE.NET (files can not be in directories+ToS access blocked for my tools)
DESKTOPTWO (down)
MOZY ("Dan Frith" MOZY customer must sync again his entire HD without reason / no data lost but no protection during the 2 weeks glitch) WARNING ! MOZY does not use block-level incremental backup ! the log and my network traffic raw dump show this easily, modify one byte in a X Mo file and see yourself !
MYSITES / MYSIT.ES (lots of bugs sic!)
FINALFOLDER SUCKS (no answer during beta so i do not imagine after the beta ^^)
TILANA (IMMEDIATLY AVOID THIS VICIOUS OFFER !) (#5 of here explains it is unlimited only for existing data on the HD but is limited to 30 GB for free when file has been deleted or available on file history... so i u crash your HD your files will be considered as deleted so you will cough up sic !)
GIGABANK.DE (low price but data can not been deleted !)
UPLOADROBOTS SUCKS (free offer abnormaly decreased after official launching) (ask account destroy 12Sep2009 8h09 CEST)
JOOCE (R.I.P)
PERSONALGRID (R.I.P)
VMN.NET (R.I.P)
OFFSITEBACKUPSOLUTIONS (seems a scam as my famous IWEBTRACK story...)
BINGODISK (dead offer for new customers)
OOSAH (dead since more than 9 months)
LIVEDRIVE SUCKS (Ejected from my review, too many displayed false informations on GUI)
4SHARED/4SYNC (one connexion asked every 6 months, does not send before a warn message in 2010...)
SUGARSYNC (ToS are twice postdated and outdated during 15 days)
GOARUNA (hidden address in whois, Whole ToS are hidden and blocked by robots.txt, go ahead !)
GLIDE OS (false GDRIVE) (date of ToS not changed) (create a 30 GB offfer which can change at any time...)
FILEQUBE (down for unknown reason)
JOGGLE (closed)
MEMOPAL and BACKUPFUSION and SAFECOPY (these 2 enterprises use the same core servers and created me big conflict between files, memopal deleted my ticket support with no warn coz i said their speed was not good and the GUI was bugged) (WARNING ! ther use of pause mode will NEVER upload changes made during this pause)
NAKIDO (refuse stagne/long storage)
MYDATANEST (down)
FANBOX (WEBOS project down)
MIMEDIA (1 local copy backup par file + 2 online) (regular software bugs) GIGMAX (app crashed)
SAMBAJAM or SAMBASTEAM (closed)
STEEKR (closed at the end of 2011)
TYPHOONBACKUP (no hotline, no account validation... dead service)
COMODO ONLINE STORAGE (too many bugs during the first hour of use...) HUMYO (lost files... downgraded offer..) (will close on June 2012)
MYUPLOAD.DK (lost or deleted my old files)
BACKIFY (an old livedrive reseller) (too many abnormal/unfair changes on the old free offer / seems to create a f*ked buzz...)
CRDF CLOUD (French) (Ask me why i wish to know what RAID they using... hahahahahahahahahahahahaha....)
HUBIC (abnormal unstable product at the launch, no clear info the first 2 weeks than it is still
(closed 1/19/2012 8:30pm GMT)
"We reserve the right to change this Agreement at any time without notice."MEGAUPLOAD
DUE TO UNSTABLE BUSINESS PLANS AND TOO MANY AMATEUR WEBMASTERS THESE SERVICES HAVE HIGH TURNOVER OR CAN DOWNGRADE HER OFFER IN ANY TIME !
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO USE SEVERAL SERVICES IN SAME TIME TO AVOID LOST FILES !
BIG BLUNDERS:
JQUERY.
ABNORMAL SITUATIONS:
-"XXXX backups didn't run for a year and never complained"- (name has been hidden here coz i'm sure they are other service storages in this case)
Click here to access to the geekzone.
Java HJSPLIT (no checksum added) (FYI 9765625KB "binary notation" = 10GB "S.I notation")
Java JAXE (mirror here) (checksum added)
DO NOT FORGET TO USE SAME TOOL TO JOIN FILES YOU HAVE SPLITTED
BECAUSE SOME ADDITIONAL CHECKSUM DATA CAN BE ADDED...
S3 (several dollars per month for 10 GB)
NEW in May 2009: S3 permit to send by snail mail your hard drive (about 85$ per HD)Free GUI/commandline tools available here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. A big list here.
(soon) GOOGLE STORAGE FOR DEVELOPPERS (an S3 competitor)
CLOUDFS BY MOSSO RACKSPACE (an S3 competitor)
NIRVANIX (another S3 competitor)
SYNAPTIC from AT&T (another S3 competitor)
PEER1HOSTING.CO.UK (use EMC) (another S3 competitor)
EVS from IDRIVE (another S3 competitor)
NIMBUS.IO from SPIDEROAK (another S3 competitor)
CONNECTRIA (another S3 competitor) (3x3 copies of files with daily backup) (15$ / month / 100 GB)ZADARA (push your files on a lot of S3 competitors in the same time ???)
redundancy (1) |
history |
Method(s) |
Method(s) |
Resume |
upload per file |
storage |
volume |
per year |
Upload in KB/s(3) |
Download in KB/s(3) |
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See here |
||||||||||||||
|
Use "S3"
|
||||||||||||||
 YUNTAA |
RAID
G
|
|||||||||||||
|
G
|
||||||||||||||
|
RAID
GD
|
||||||||||||||
|
G
|
||||||||||||||
|
RAID6+G
|
||||||||||||||
redundancy (1) |
history |
Method(s) |
Method(s) |
Resume |
upload per file |
storage |
volume |
per year |
Upload in KB/s(3) |
Download in KB/s(3) |
SAFEBERG
MYBACKUPDRIVE
FYI: DSTORAGE.FR (new service), LIVEDRIVE, MYOTHERDRIVE AND DIINO GIVEN ME A PRESS ACCOUNT TO DEEPLY TEST HER OWN OFFERS FOR EVERY OF THESE SERVICES I WAIT THE END OF HER XX DAYS TRIAL TO BE SURE THAT IT IS NOT A HIDDEN TRIAL OFFER ;) FOR DSTORAGE.FR THE COMMERCIAL LAUNCH WILL BE UNKNOWN.
Requirements: trial offer refused, goal is to test regurarly and forever the main service
DIINO is a Java multilingual oriented software rather than backup software and it can be launched on Windows, Mac and Linux systems. The GUI is very nice and easy to understand. Its functions (uploading/downloading folders or files / incremental backup / scheduling backups) are basic and sufficient enough for an archive software. Scheduled tasks are saved remotely but name and path directories disappear if these directories are no longer present :-( The software is launched each time Diinoservice_xp_i386.exe is started, but it is not a windows service that allows for uploading data regardless of the user profile. A license permits use of the software on an unlimited number of computers and also offers decent package for only $5 per month: - 100 GB of storage, - 25 GB of daily transfer, - Sharing of a folder or files (link is available for 7 days and 10 uses). For people (like me) who store OS partitions or big files, uploading and downloading can be done by the browser but resuming cancelled transfers is not possible. It is not very good if you have an unstable Internet connexion. Use of files splitting softwares such as HJSPLIT is an almost mandatory tool to be used with DIINO if your main files are greater than 100 MB. My uploading speed was 60 KB/s while my downloading speed was 700 KB/s. These results are lower than what I had expected. They are no upload resume, it's a pity also for very big files... Since February 2010 (last test January 2012): upload is 90, 110, 100, 110, 105, 110 KB/s ; download is 1600, 350, 250, 450, 300, 400, 1200 KB/s... I'll end now with a positive point ;) Security (one of the most important points too often forgotten by other reviewers) consisted of the classical SSL standard used for transferring data, the use of a RAID system (i hope RAID1 or greater ;) ), and a daily backup at another physical location. We can see with this small review that DIINO loves easy and secure data for long-term archiving but is slower compared to its competitors. (Thanks AL and Michael to check my english grammar ;)
For 5$ per month and for 100 GB of storage data, you have: - archive and sync (differential backup), - sharing file and/or folders, - receive comments of your publics documents, - optional preview images, - direct URL download from external links (very nice!). For the last function explained above, i have tried with a big 650 Mo ISO file but the download seems loops forever without any progression messages. After manually forcing the close of the software, the ISO file was well present when i has restarted the program... I have appreciated MD5 publication of every files, remaining time in upload (not in download mode ?!), e-mail sent whatever the state of the progress (of course the process must have been started before) and also the import mode of every files of two of his competitors ;) Else, i was very surprised than scheduled backups on XP Home (Vista and W7 Home version too ?) are not directly managed by the software itself but manual launch is always possible. Upload are about 90 KB/s (my DSL line accepts 100 KB/s) and 450 KB/s for download. Result are good enough. Since February 2010 (last test January 2012): upload is 105, 90 KB/s ; download is 100, 120, 150, 80, 110. About data security storage, MyOtherDrive uses RAID 6 storage servers and backs up your data offsite in a different facility too. We can see with this small review that MYOTHERDRIVE purpose some amazing functions for a correct price in a secure environnement. REVIEW OF LIVEDRIVE: Ejected. GUI shows too many false informations. HOW TO CHOOSE YOUR BACKUP/ARCHIVE ENTERPRISE ? When i began to find all options of all these competitors, i think to add about 15 characteristics but in fact, i have found more than 30... - Price ;) - NUMBER OF VERSION HISTORY DURATION, (a copy of the X old active files versions are kept) ; IF YOU ARE NOT ON A UNLIMITED OFFER SOME X GB OFFERS INCLUDE THE STORAGE OF ACTUAL FILES + OLD FILES VERSIONS) (i.e you pay a 2 GB service, you modify 10 times one byte on a 200 MB file, your have now saturated your account ^^) - VERSION HISTORY DURATION, (a copy of the file you have deleted is kept X days), - IS THIS SERVICE IS A FILE ARCHIVE SERVICE OR/AND A SYNC BACKUP TOOL ? THIS NOTION IS VERY IMPORTANT IF YOU WISH TO SAVE DATAS IN LONG TERM COZ IF THE SERVICE IS A SYNC BACKUP TOOL, YOU MUST ALWAYS KEEP THE DATAS ON YOUR HD ELSE THE SERVICE WILL CONSIDER YOU HAS DELETED THEM !, - MAX FILESIZE TO STORAGE (SOME SERVICES DOES NOT SAVE BY DEFAULT MULTIMEDIAS FILES OR/AND BIG FILES GREATER THAN X GB), - IF THIS SERVICE OFFERS UNLIMITED BACKUP, DOES IT INCLUDES EXTERNAL HD / USB PENS ?, - UPLOAD OPEN AND LOCKED FILES, - SOME FILES ARE NEVER UPLOADED BY DEFAULT ("Thumbs.db" for Windows ok but some files begining by "$" is abnormal !! I think to WUALA ^^ will be repaired in summer 2011 but CHECK YOUR OPTIONS TO BE SURE THAN ALL KIND OF DECENT FILES ARE SAVED BY DEFAULT !!!), - (if you wish to send your big files to X competitors in same time) Permit to download a file from another place (you send a big file to a place, you share the file and other services can directly download files from this place;) - Clever backup function 1 (only with filehistory service): If you accidentally delete a file and you add them later from another source, you do not need to upload the source again coz size/MD5/SHA1 checksum will recognize the file. - Clever backup function 2 (shared deduplication): Some file extensions of every customer backup are shared between all customers and the core server detect in the backup you wish to upload some well know commons files which will be directly copied from the backup of an other customer who have already sent this file, in others words only the first customer who own the last software or OS version will upload all files and other customers does not need to upload them again (files examples of a classical windows backup which can be shared to a lot of customers: winlogon.com, winsock.dll, java.exe, skype.exe, utorrent.exe ^^, crackM$office2007.exe ^^^^ and more and more ;) - Clever backup function 3 ("reset of point of restauration"): Buying a new PC need to generally upgrade the whole OS or only use new drivers if the new PC is based on the same OS, the hoster can purpose a function to only upload changes between your last known backup (of your old PC) and the content of the new PC. After the end of the (long) process, the hoster will consider than it can (forever?) "forget" backups of your old computer and use as a new base the first backup of new PC backup. of course, old important data who hasn't been copied on the new PC can be lost forever ! - Keep on your HD a local copy of every files which has been sent online, this permit to quickly recover a deleted file but can use a lot of disk space... - Compress, incremental or differential backup (delta/block-level incremental backup ?), - Daily, Manual or continuous-backup/CDP (all the time or during low CPU works), - Sync data between a lot of electronic products in same time (PC, notebook, iphone...), - Virtual Disk / Map drive letter (create a X: letter on Windows): Warn to some uncapped services as SKYDRIVE which block file changes extensions (and GDRIVE from GOOGLE with his 66 limit characters in the filename) to be sure than third-party software as GLADINET, SMESTORAGE or RAPIDDRIVE.NET or SDEXPLORER use offered space ONLY for file transferts ! In others words, ask them if this remote service purpose a virtual drive but you must know if they are no limitations as a classical hard disk or if this drive is only used as a gateway to ONLY easily upload/download, move/delete files and/or directories. Geeks can following this link too for more technical details ;) - Prioritize some directories and/or some extensions to be backed up, - Upload or download thanks to a browser, - Restore to a data range (i.e i want the backup content of yesterday at noon), - Filters to save or restore, - Share URL by HTTP/Facebook/internal viewer/Smartphone, - Email/TWITTER/SMS/RSS report every day of the subcription or/and when the backup process start and stop, - Support 24/24 online / by phone, mail, twitter, IM - BW throttling (it is not a secret, more you use capping more your file aren't secure ;) - A copy of the backup is keep on main computer (to increase recovery speed), - A copy of the backup can be sent to a friend (social backup), - Securized SSL 256 bits transfers, - Blowfish 448 bits to crypt data, - Private and personal encryption key (you lost it, you lost your data too...), - Resume upload and/or downloads, - FTP and/or WebDAV access, - The software can be installed on X computers, - Insurance Warranty if the enterprise closes (we guarantee data will be available X months/years after our eventual closure), - Import data of his competitors (oh ! ;), - Upload datas from CD/DVD, USB and networks drives, - RAIDx hardwares / (my famous) geographical backup / secure word is not precise, - Proxy support, - Auto shutdown of the computer, - Datacenter(s) state: i suppose all of them have high security access and are redundant power and internet access, - Permit to sent or recover datas on HD or DVD thanks to UpS/FedEx/DhL, - Internal search files option, - Average upload and download speed (some unlimited backup services as Carbonite reduces upload speeds after X dozens of GB...) - Log files, - GUI OSeS (Windows / Mac / Linux / Java...), - Language of browser GUI, - Language of software GUI, - MS Outlook backups (thanks to a plug-in), - (specific) Read (and write) e-mails which has been on backed thanks to a webmail, - (for pro) Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle, Exchange, MySQL backups (thanks to a plug-in), - Migration Wizard (to recover files to a new OS), - Priority file download (give high priority to recover some files), - Locate my computer (display the IP of your computer in case of steal), - Detect and alert when backup drive or directory does not exist (crash ? unplugging ?), - A Trash folder, - A Report in text format, - Recovery by mail. NEW TECHNOLOGIES: - Encrypt data before the transfers (wuala, bitcasa...), - Trade your own HD disk (symform) (wuala did it), - Virtual remote HD with cache (bitcasa), - Use of a paper key in addition to the password. QUICK FAQ FOR THESE SERVICES: Q: I use a service which use S3, i'm very happy of this kind of QoS... A: Do you forget the service can close ? Q: Can i use X softwares competitors in same time ? A: Yes and no. The generic idea is "Yes if you upload static archives as MP3 or a daily backup but no if this daily backup has the same filename forever". I can not be more precise coz they are a lot of cases and the risk *CAN BE* to forever loop a backup in some tiny cases. Q: I have choosen an unlimited data storage service which is not an archive service, my hard disk is very large for me so i can create a specific directory i avoid to touch to place files i wish to keep forever. This method is equal to an archive service no ? A: Absolutly *BUT* the disadvantage depend of filehistory of this service and his availabilty to recover data: consider you have 100 GB of data in this directory, a max filehistory of 30 days and a HD which has crashed today => to do not lost this advantage, you must reinstall your system and download these 100 GB before the first 30 days of backup software reinstallation else you lose forever these data ;) Pray god than you PC and/or DSL line hold on the load or rent a cloud/VPS/dedicated server ^^ |
OFILE (30 GB / 5$ per month) (already on this document)CLUBBACKUP (5$ / month / 20 GB) (already on this document)CRASHPLAN (Unlimited / 55$ / Year) (already on this document)(RAID6 on 1 datacenter)MOZY BY EMC (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic) (already on this document)DATR.WS (??? $ / ??? GB) (already on this document)OPENDRIVE (25 $ / 25 GB) (already on this document)IDRIVE (5$ / month / 150 GB) (already on this document)WUALA (already on this document)GLIDEDIGITAL (25 GB / 25$ par year) (already on this document)BACKUPANDSHARE (10 GB / 50$ / year) ("We backup your data and store that securely. We store the user's data at highly secured data centers" answered by mail)
DEDIKAM (French low-price shared-service) (15$ / Year / 28 Go) (only RAID5 for this low price)
F-SECURE ONLINE BACKUP (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic) ("RAID 6, on top of this the data is replicated to a secondary (once a day) server also running RAID 6." answered by mail)OPENRSM (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic) ("all data is received pre-encrypted and distributed to our datacenters" answered by mail)NORTON ONLINE BACKUP (25GB / 50$ per year) ("Stores files on separate storage arrays at the data center for added file safety")
(Promo on 11/2009 Norton Online Backup 25GB only $18.99 on Amazon)TRENDMICRO TITANIUM MAXIMUM SECURITY (10GB / (50$ per year?)) (antivirus included)
PACK FNAC with BITDEFENDER and OODRIVE (25 GB / 69 euros) (antivirus included) ("h‚bergement dans trois data-centers distincts et redondants")SPAREBACKUP (Mandatory software to upload) (60$ / 50 GB) ("The data is stored in multiple tier 3 data centers." live chat said)NOMADESK (clever GB / 50$ per year) (upload by mail is possible) ("hundreds of GB will not be acceptable for $50/year. We backup your files daily" answered by mail)ALTDRIVE (50GB / 5$ per month) ("several times a day, a copy of your data is stored on four storage devices at two geographically separate locations" answered by mail")
SECUREBACKUP (5$ / month / unlimited but "fair use policy") ("only RAID5" it's sufficient for this service answered by mail)BACKBLAZE (Same as precedent.) (File history up to 4 weeks)SOSONLINEBACKUP (15 GB per 50$/year) ("replicated to several of our Data centers" answered by mail) (you can send your data by DVD)KEEPVAULT (40 GB / 50$ / year) ("RAID6" answered by mail)4ONLINEBACKUP (5$ / month / unlimited but 10GB transfer max) ("daily backup" answered by mail)FLIPDRIVE (20 GB / 50$ / year *** photo are free and unlimited during suscription) ("We have real time backups in place where data is being replicated to our secondary storage servers." answered by mail)MAGICBACKUP (50$ / Year / Unlimited) (Redudant backups)SAFECOPYBACKUP from SAFECOPY (150 GB / 50$ / year) ("similar to RAID 5 redundancy, but with an automated self-healing system to automatically look for warnings and move data to healthy "pods" if errors are detected." answred by mail)SAFESYNC from TREND MICRO (multi copy of downloaded files)
DOTSPIRIT (5 euros/ month) (RAID5 answered by mail)
ZENOK http://www.zenok.com/en/plans/ (5$ / month for 150GB) (free 21GB "pay_only_to_recover" offer is very expensive)9GBACKUP http://www.9gbackup.com/Features.aspx (6$ / month / 10GB) (2 storage locations backup)
List of big/unlimited disk space lower than 5$ / month:
WARNING: Some hosters purpose backup of your panel configuration file, not your core files sic !
JUSTHOST (= supergreenhosting ?) (additionnal daily backup cost 20$/year)IXWEBHOSTING (Same as precedent.) ("Backup twice per week" chat assistant says)EBOUNDHOST ("weekly backup")AWARDSPACE (60GB/5$ per month) ("RAID backups")PRONETHOSTING.NET (100GB / 5$ per month) (instant backup) ("RAID backups, weekly backup (and daily incremental ?????)" answered by mail)GLOBAT (100GB / 5$ per month) ("Daily backup in internal")DELL DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP (10 GB / 30$ per year)
BYTEBAQ (Unlimited / 35œ per year)
OVH personal 25GB (3 snapshots per week + J+7 + J+14 + J+21) (FTP i suppose)ICLICKWEBHOSTING (Unlimited / C5$ per month)
HOSTI.CO (Unlimited / 3$ per month)HOSTI.CO(50GB / 2$ per month)(Unlimited / 3$ per month)
ANHOSTING (500 GB / 5.21$ per month)HOSTMANTIS (Unlimited / 5$ per month)
(Must be tested later) FASTMULE.NET (Unlimited / 5$ per month)
(Must be tested later) CONSTANTVAULT (Unlimited / ?$ per month)
(no time 2 depthly read) host-ed.net (120 GB 4.49$/month) RAID
(I wait answer) FABRIK from SIMPLETECH (Unlimited Disk Space and BW for about 5 dollars per month)
(I wait answer) BOXSTR (5$ / 25 GB) (already on this document)
(I wait answer) HUGEDRIVE (500 MB Free)
(I wait answer) ONLINEBACKUPVAULT (10 GB / 50$ / year)
(I wait answer) CONCENTSUS (20 GB / 5$ / month)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/amazon-s3-tools/
(no time 2 depthly read) https://kazabra.com/info/prices-payment/Default.asp (1 GB Free) (paid offer is not cheap)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://free-backup.info/back2zip.html (backup2zip / Free tool to use with S3)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://www.memeo.com (1 GB free) (paid offer is not cheap)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://www.zmanda.com/download-amanda.php (open source backup pro tool)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://www.arkeia.com/en/company/press-releases/326 (free backup pro tool)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://caringo.com/downloadCAStor.html (free backup pro tool)
(no time 2 depthly read) https://digitalvault.qwest.com/signup.aspx (2 GB free) (paid offer is not cheap)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://www.jackfile.com (25 MB Free) (paid offer is not cheap)
(no time 2 depthly read) http://ridethebandwagon.com/home.html (save itunes music ?!)
(no time 2 depthly read) OWNCLOUD (a personal/DIY cloud service ?)
GOOGLE MESSAGE CONTINUITY (backup M$ exchange databases)
WARNING ! FOR SOME SERVICES UNLIMITED STORAGE CAN BE CAPPED ;)
(closed now) MEGAUPLOAD (199 euros for life) ("Your files live forever. Each files is stored on multiple servers") (Already on this document) (Since the summer 2011, the uploaded files abnormally make 24 hours to be available / do not know why)
SYMFORM (10$ for real unlimited offer)
In September 2010, i will create a table with oldest and better file sharing services (RS/MU competitors) which avoid ****** RECAPTCHA. For the moment i purpose the raw version:
(soon for this table) Just click on the title you want to sort table as you wish ;)
(Dozens of these services are created every week, drastic rules exists:
- No stupid CAPTCHA,
- More than one year of existence on JDOWNLOADER,
- English mandatory (also on F.A.Q),
- More than 30 days of retention,
- Download can be capped but value must be displayed ("limited" means nothing for me)),
- Remote HTTP/FTP is useful.
Middle-term objective here is to have a TOP10, not more ! oldest services have priority due to its longevity ;)
(soon for this table) Just click on the title you want to sort table as you wish ;)
(Dozens of these services are created every week, drastic rules exists:
- No stupid CAPTCHA,
- More than one year of existence on JDOWNLOADER,
- English mandatory (also on F.A.Q),
- More than 30 days of retention,
- Download can be capped but value must be displayed ("limited" means nothing for me)),
- Remote HTTP/FTP is useful.
Middle-term objective here is to have a TOP10, not more ! oldest services have priority due to its longevity ;)
- No stupid CAPTCHA,
- More than one year of existence on JDOWNLOADER,
- English mandatory (also on F.A.Q),
- More than 30 days of retention,
- Download can be capped but value must be displayed ("limited" means nothing for me)),
- Remote HTTP/FTP is useful.
Middle-term objective here is to have a TOP10, not more ! oldest services have priority due to its longevity ;)
| MEDIAFIRE |
|||||||||
1FICHIER (An outsider)
SHAREYOURFILE.BIZ (An outsider)
LIMELINX (An outsider)
FILES.MAIL.RU (New concept: "every download will prolong storage period for 5 days.") (file retention can not be checked by me coz retention is too small)
ANTIRECAPTCHA for JD (Windows version of an antirecaptcha plugin) (in july 2011, i'm sure now you can forget this plugin, poor quality)ANTIRECAPTCHA for jD
ANTIRECAPTCHA
ANTIRECAPTCHA for jD (the same as precedent ?)
CAPTCHA ALERT for jD
List of paid methods to auto-decrypt CAPTCHAs (click on the last "spoiler" button on the first message)
UNDEADLINK (keep your links forever...)
Bonus URL: LINKFINDER (View every links of a folder link for a lot of popular FH)
- Usenet: files are public, retention is actually (December 2010) about 800 days... files can be recovered thanks to 10/20 bigs services for about 2/3$ thanks to block accounts. you must find a medium binary traffic group name to post and also encrypt your datas !!! After posting it is near of mandatory to find than your files are present on several NZB SEARCHERs.
BACKUPREVIEW.INFO A review site about these kind of services
ONLINEBACKUPREVIEWS A review site about these kind of services
ONLINEBACKUPDEALS A review site about these kind of services
A review site about these kind of services
A (very very) huge deutch list
Another list
This service archives serious creativecommons or public domain contents
SOME (UNTESTED) TOOLS TO BACKUP ON SMARTPHONES (IPHONE, BLACKBERRY, NOKIA and more and more...):
(FYI IPHONE can include IPOD and IPAD too)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) IDRIVE (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) CORTADO (1 GB Free)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) MOBYKO
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) DYNOPLEX
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SUGARSYNC (2 GB Free) (IPHONE, ANDROID, BLACKBERRY) (ejected by me)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) ZUMODRIVE (1 GB Free) decreased
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SAFECOPYBACKUP from SAFECOPY (1 GB Free) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SERVERSMAN (? GB Free) (IPHONE)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) IDRIVE (? GB Free) (IPHONE, BLACKBERRY, ANDROID?) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) HUDDLE.NET (? GB Free) (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) MIQLIVE (1 GB Free?) (WINDOWS MOBILE, SYMBIAN, BLACKBERRY)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) MEMOPAL (3 GB free) (IPHONE)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SOSONLINEBACKUP (IPAD/IPHONE)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) DROPBOX (2.25GB instead of 2GB thanks to referral) (already listed on this document) (IPHONE, ANDROID, BLACKBERRY)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) BACKUPANDSHARE (IPHONE, ANDROID)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) ICLOUD (3 GB free) (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) GOARUNA (2 GB free) (ANDROID, SYMBIAN) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SPIDEROAK (? GB free) (ANDROID, SYMBIAN, IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SMESTORAGE (GUI dispatching interface) (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SOSONLINEBACKUP (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) BOX.NET (ANDROID) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) WUALA (ANDROID, IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) FILESANYWHERE (BLACKBERRY) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SYNCPLICITY (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) CRASHPLAN (ANDROID, IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) GDOCS / GOOGLE DOCS OFFICIAL APPLICATION (ANDROID) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) POGOPLUG (5 GB free) (ANDROID+IPHONE ?) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) YUUWAA (2 GB free) (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Bonus URL) (Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) How to backup any smartphone
(Bonus URL) (Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) QUICKOFFICE CONNECT MOBILE (IPHONE)
(Bonus URL) (Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) IPOD RESCUE
(Bonus URL) (Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) IPHONE BACKUP EXTRACTOR
(no main page) CLOUD CONNECT PRO from ANTECEA ???? http://antecea.zendesk.com/entries/389187-cloud-connect-for-ipad-peer-into-the-cloud-with-our-short-video
Google+ Instant upload permit to automatically copy your photos or videos to Picasa
BONUS: Some apps permit to use 16 or 32 GB memory card on iphone as a mobile storage HD
SOME (UNTESTED) TOOLS TO BACKUP ON TABLETS AS IPAD:
NORTON 360 (25 GB) (already listed on this document) (IPAD)
(legal stuff: IPAD is the generic name used to explain the new Apple tablet project presented in 2010, this name can change shortly due to possible trademark name lawsuits)
UNTESTED:
(not free?) ALWAYSONPC
SOME (UNTESTED) TOOLS TO BACKUP ON NON-ONLINE METHODS:
(big) list of free backup tool
A free sync backup tool
UNSTOPPABLE (Windows Freeware) Copy directories on another source
XXCOPY (Windows Freeware) (commandline xcopy extension)
COMMANDBURNER (Windows Freeware) (directly burn directories on CD or DVD)
xdelta.org
OOPS!BACKUP (use delta method + double backup to backup) (29$ with 1 year of free update)
MIRRORFOLDER (use delta method to backup) (39$ with free minor updates)
GENIE TIMELINE (use block level method to backup) (IntelliCDP is only every 3 minutes not in real time)
http://www.livebackupnow.com/faq.php (48$/1 year per CDP and FTP)
http://www.ajcsoft.com/AJCActBkDownload.php (35$ with FTP / free minor upgrades only)
http://www.livefilebackup.com/ GOODSYNC (CDP i think) (??$ / no free major updates)
APBACKUP (CDP i think on sheduler) (39.95$ per year of updates * http://avpsoft.com/purchase/renewal_policy/)
PURESYNC (CDP) (free)FILEGEE (real-time) (free) (now free version not include FTP :-((Will be viewed later) http://www.tgrmn.com/ (CDP) (XX$ with free 3 months updates)
(Will be viewed later) http://www.syncbreeze.com/syncbreeze_real-time_synchronization.html (CDP) (10$ every 12 months)
(Will be viewed later) http://www.allwaysync.com (every minute minimum)
(Will be viewed later) http://www.2brightsparks.com/index-sp.html (CDP) (Major updates cost 15 euros)
(Will be viewed later) http://code.google.com/p/big5sync/
(Will be viewed later) http://code.google.com/p/syncbutler/
(Will be viewed later) http://www.snapfiles.com/get/horodruin.html
(Will be viewed later) http://www.uraniumbackup.com/ (XX$ with free upgrade forever)
(Will be viewed later) http://www.ukrebs-software.de/english/back4sure/screenshots.html
(Will be viewed later) http://www.grsoftware.net/backup/software/grbackpro.html (59$ per one year updates)
(Will be viewed later) http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dsynchronize.html
(Will be viewed later) http://www.smartsync.com/
(Will be viewed later) http://www.heatsoft.com/has/HASindex.html
(Will be viewed later) http://www.easy2sync.com/en/produkte/easy2sync.php
(Will be viewed later) http://www.dillobits.com/insync.html (XX$ with 1 year update) http://www.dillobits.com/upgrades.html
(Will be viewed later) http://www.scootersoftware.com/
(Will be viewed later) http://www.gelosoft.com/ (40$ with free minor upgrade)
http://www.backup2all.com/en/backup-to-usb.html (BACKUP2ALL (no CDP)
http://www.kalab.com/freeware/foldersync/foldersync.htm
http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/features.html
http://www.handybackup.net/ (CDP maybe later)
http://rebit.com/faqs/ (CDP) (no delta?) (XX$ with free minor updates)
http://www.bvckup.com/
http://www.dswsoft.com/fbw.php FILE BACKUP WATCHER (5 minutes)
http://www.cmfperception.com/securabackup.html SECURA BACKUP (hourly)
http://www.1-abc.net/0021/index.htm 1-ABC.NET BACKUP (every minute)
http://www.cezeo.com/products/backuptime/screenshots/ (every minute)
http://gridinsoft.com/backup/index.php GRIDINGSOFT BACKUP (no scheduler)
http://www.vwsolutions.com/VisionBackup/ VISIONBACKUP (simultaneous backup) (daily)
http://dirsyncpro.org/features.html DirSync Pro (every minute)
http://www.fieldit.co.uk/index.php?page=content&CatID=18
Note: Linux or Mac users can use dd/mkisofts/cdrecord tools ;)
SOCIAL / REMOTE BACKUP:
BUDDYBACKUP (free social backup online tool to your friend or family)
HOMEPIPE.NET (social backup online tool to your friend or family)
CRASHPLAN (social backup / FREE if you backup to your friend or family or remore computer)
ASHAY (a social backup for small SOHO)
ALLMYDATA.ORG / TAHOE (an open source multi-peer backup software)
(Not tested) http://www.cleversafe.org (pro open source tool)
(Not tested) http://rollback.codeplex.com/ (open source tool)
SYMFORM (social backup) (already on this document)
"Amazon Simple Storage Service" AKA's "Amazon S3" (AS14618,16509 or 39111) (see their website for SLA)
Azure: AZURE BACKUP
S3: QUILLEN
Data deduplication tool: EXDUPE
Data deduplication tool: XDELTA.ORG
FTP Upload: "curl ftp://ftp.domainname.com -T your.file -u user:password -v -C -"
Example: "curl ftp://dl.free.fr -T 10MB.TST -u user@free.fr:qwertytest -v -C -"
WebDAV Upload under Windows: "curl --user user:pass -T file.txt http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/ -o nul"
WebDAV Upload under Linux (and Mac?): "curl --user user:pass -T file.txt http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/ -o /dev/null"
WebDAV Download: "curl --user user:pass http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/file.txt > file.exe"
Note: In August/September 2010, some workarounds to avoid Windows core "DLL load hijacking" execution thanks to network shares or WebDAV ask you to disable this service. So it will be logical WebDav service will never work on this case except if you use third party-softwares as GLADINET or SMESTORAGE ;)
DROPDAV (WebDAV to DROPBOX gateway)
MYDRIVE.CH (WebDAV) (already present on this document)
OFILE (WebDAV) (already present on this document)
MYDISK.SE (WebDAV) (already present on this document)
BACKUPWEBTOWN (FTP) (already present on this document)
ONLINESTORAGESOLUTION (FTP / WebDAV / RSYNC) (already present on this document)
FREE-HIDRIVE FREEHIDRIVE from STRATO (WebDAV) (already present on this document)
CROCKO (FTP)
SHARE-ONLINE.BIZ (FTP)
BADONGO (FTP) (unlimited size kept forever BUT WEBSITE IS REGULARLY DOWN !)
MEGASHARES (FTP)
UPLOADBOX (FTP)
KILOUPLOAD (FTP) (already on this document)
ICLOUD (WebDAV) (already on this document)
HUMYO (WebDAV http://dav.humyo.com) (works 4 me and i have free account ;) (already on this document)
CLOUDSAFE (WebDAV) (already on this document)
NIVIO (FTP) (already on this document) (ftp monothread only)
WEBCITY.COM.AU (FTP) (SFTP) (SAMBA) (SCP)
NEOVOS (FTP) (already on this document) (ftp.neovos.com)
DRIVEHQ (FTP) (already on this document)
MEMOPAL (WedDAV 1FICHIER (FTP) (
NO HOTLINK)BOX.NET (WebDAV http://www.box.net/dav) (already on this document)
E-NAUTIA (FTP) (already on this document)
Bonus URLs:
GLADINET (A WebDAV/FTP/S3/Box.net/Skydrive client (now freeware offer honest free functions !!!)(upload resume is not possible for the moment)
(April 2010: Priority are given to Google Docs and SKYDRIVE devs)
The fact to convert some documents in google docs format can give you ugly documents !!!
IMHO place false to "setting_manager/google_docs/convert_documents,spreadsheets_and_presentations"
(software in test)SMESTORAGE (Gmail, FTP (not free), WedDAV, S3...) (you can use browser or software) (already on this document)
In the FTP module (free during beta), the files are not directly sent to the FTP :-X(Will be tested later) http://www.joukuu.com/ JOUKUU
(Will be tested later) http://www.syncany.org/ SYNCANY.ORG (open source)
(Will be tested later) http://www.otixo.com/ OTIXO
CLOUDHERO (Sync files tks to GDOCS) (Use Google API so free users can not sync all file types))
SYNCDOCS (Sync files tks to GDOCS))
Cloud Save" Google Chrome extension (save files on a lot of cloud services) (For google, they use Google API so free users can not sync all file types))
(Macintosh) TWINNET (A WebDAV/FTP/S3 client)
Two Windows Freeware to calculate MD5/SHA/CRC32 files. ZIP & Encrypt Files or folders in Command line
BITKINEX * A WebDAV/FTP client (webdav http(s) works even if the core software does not purpose you)
(Macintosh+Windows) CYBERDUCK (A GDOCS/FTP/S3 client)
netdrive.net A WebDAV/FTP client (free for home use)
anyclient * netdrive by novell http://repository.windowsdream.com/ApplicationsEXE/NetDrive-4.1-EN.exe
(shareware) (memopal https does not works ?) http://www.enginsite.com/ssh-webdav-ftp-sftp-client.htm
http://rei.to/carotdav_en.html CarotDAV an FTP/Webdav/Skydrive/Dropbox client
http://www.crossftp.com/features.htm (free) (use SFV in paid version to compare)
http://www.southrivertech.com/purchase/wdpricing.html
http://www.xellsoft.com/SynchronEX.html#feature_comparison
http://www.superflexible.com/partial.htm
http://www.xarka.com/chunker/index.html
http://www.driveonweb.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=2&lang=en ?
http://www.mobzystems.com/tools/mobzync.aspx
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/Windows-File-Replicator.shtml
These servers accepts FTP/WedDAV but have a retention: GOOD.NET (testfile is here) (FTP is ok but 90 days retention)
GETHABILIS / HABILIS (email2dropbox.com gateway)
SENDTODROPBOX (email2dropbox.com gateway)
HOTMAIL (Send by e-mail to your Skydrive account will be possible for all members in the end of summer 2010)
GLADINET (A WebDAV/FTP/Box.net/Skydrive client (now freeware offer honest free functions !!!) (already on this document)Firefox Extension to simulate WebDAV
FIREUPLOADER (download/upload from box.net)
Z_O_O_M'S FILE & IMAGE UPLOADER (upload from more than 70 services)
Upload automatically: in settings, you can find "selection profiles" and then "automatic upload to first profile"
MULTI UNI-UPLOADER (upload from more than 50 services)
(not still tested) NEEMBUU UPLOADER
TUCAN (an open source downloader for RS/MU and others) (IN BETA)
JDOWNLOADER (an open source downloader)MDOWNLOADER (an open source downloader/uploader)
RUM (Rapidshare Upload Manager)
(Mac) PSD / PROGRESSIVE DOWNLOADER (another downloader)
MEGAUPLOAD DOWNLOADER (an open source downloader with lot of file hosters)
PYLOAD (an open source downloader with lot of file hosters)
FATRAT (an open source downloader with lot of file hosters)
MIPONY.NET (an software downloader) (ADWARE!?)
FRITZ!LOAD (for linux and mac only ?)
BALTAZAR (an open source downloader)
RDESC (untested)
WARNING ! RAPIDBIT (a folder contains warez links sic!)
CRYPTLOAD (still a downloader software)
FREERAPID (still a downloader software)
SKIPSCREEN (Firefox Extension which inhibit countdown on some file hosters)
YARSM (Yet Another Rapidshare Manager)
CANDISOFT LOAD! (still a downloader software)
DUPLICATI (a backup tool S3, FTP,WebDAV,SSH...)
SDEXPLORER (ex-SKYDRIVE EXPLORER) (a Windows software GUI for Skydrive / good if u hate Internet Explorer ;)
GDOCSDRIVE (upload/download in GDOCS)
(Android) sorami-skydrive (a GUI for Skydrive)
(Upload only) ZUPLOADER (standalone part of ZSCREEN) (a Windows software GUI to upload images or files)
and FREERAPID, RSGET, TUXLOAD (untested)
Thanks to matrixik for these links about this subpart ;)
SLIMRAT (monothread but multicnx if you active it on slimrat.conf)PLOWSHARE (monothread) (can upload on RS,MU ZSHARE.NET and 2SHARED)uploadsys - Multiuploader/Downloader
MEGAUP from GO2ARCH
MEGAUPLOADER
A MEGAUPLOAD Downloader
PYDGET
(Windows 7 only) SYNCTOVHD (sync files to a VHD file)
(Bof) 1FILESHARING
ASAPLOAD
DIGZIP
GAZUP
GO4DWL.NET
LOAD2ALL
MASSMIRROR (file errors ?) (e-mail links) (4 services)
MEGAUPPER
MIRRORAFILE
MIRRORCREATOR (e-mail links)
MIRORIII
MULTI-UP
MULTIUPLOAD
QOOY
RAPIDSPREAD
RAPIDMIRRORS
(Bof) SHARE2MANY
SHAREBEE
UPLOADMIRRORS
UPLOADMAKER
MULTIUP.ORG
FILEDECK.NET
http://reupload.it/ (will be added in November 2011 if it is still alive ^^)
http://www.sharejojo.com/ (will be added in December 2011 if it is still alive ^^)
http://www.7ups.net/ (will be added in September 2012 if it is still alive ^^)
http://needmirror.com/ (will be added in October 2012 if it is still alive ^^)
http://www.tubemogul.com/solutions/oneload/features (for vidfeos) (will be added in October 2012 if it is still alive ^^)
JHEBERG (no thanks ! shit CAPTCHA !)
MSPOT backup/store 5 GB of music
MOUGG store 1 GB of music
MP3TUNES store 2 GB of music
BACKUPMY.NET BACKUPMYTWEETS backups email, tweets/twitter, blogs...
TWEETSCAN backups tweets from TWITTER
BACKUPIFY backup a lot of things (tweets is free)
BACKUPIFY SUCKS ! The 19th April 2010 i have just changed my main gmail password for this account and you are alone to have OAUTH access, since 29 days now my gmail account is in excess BW for IMAP, he has been ok during 2/3 days during this time (before i add ETERNOS your competitor) and u hasn't DL something during this time ! No news of you since the 7th may, plz see again Google team it is your work ! *** Since The 13th november no backup has been done since a lot of weeks...
ETERNOS backup a lot of things (in beta)
(CRASHED ?) TWEETS2MAIL backup tweets from TWITTER (it uses a specific gmail account as storage)
SAIKUAPP (free unlimited sharing file forever for collaborative projects)
(Will be never tested) BACKUP-SQL (alpha) (no tested) (backup MYSQL DB)
(Windows software) (Will be never tested) MYSQLBACKUPFTP / MYSQLBF (backup MYSQL DB)
(Will be never tested) BLOGBACKUPONLINE (blog backup... online ;)
(not free) (Will be never tested) LIFESTREAMBACKUP (backup a lot of things online ;)
(Will be never tested) DOCVERSE (bought by Google) is a plugin for M$ products to quickly upload or downloads contents into your box
(Will be never tested) HARMONY is a plugin for outlook product to quickly upload or downloads contents into your box
(Will be never tested) LIFESTREAMBACKUP (Backup your well known online service datas)
(Will be never tested) GDOCBACKUP (only save documents, not any extension ;)
(Will be never tested) GMAIL BACKUP
(Will be never tested) GMAIL KEEPER (30$)
(Will be never tested) GOOGLE DOCS BACKUP
(Will be never tested) SOCIALSAFE.NET saves FACEBOOK contents in your HD (cheap price)
(Will be never tested) FBDOWNLOADER saves FACEBOOK contents in your HD (free)
(Will be never tested) ARCHIVEFACEBOOK saves FACEBOOK contents in your HD
(Will be never tested) BLOOM save or upload FACEBOOK photos and videos in your HD
(Will be never tested) PHOTOGRABBER (capture photos from FACEBOOK)
(Will be never tested) PHOTODOWNLOADER saves FACEBOOK photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) PICKNZIP saves FACEBOOK photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FOTOBOUNCE save or upload FACEBOOK and FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) THEGOOD.UPLOADR upload FLICKR
(Will be never tested) (free limited version) BULKR save FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FLICKREDIT save or upload FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) JUPLOADR upload ZOOMR and FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FLUMP downloads FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FACEPAD saves FACEBOOK photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FACEPAD saves FLICKR photos on FACEBOOK
(Will be never tested) FLICKR DRIVE save or upload FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) PICASA DOWNLOADER save or upload PICASA photos in your HD
(Chrome extension) (Will be never tested) SAVE YOUR PHOTOS (ex MOVE2PICASA) save or upload FACEBOOK photos on PICASA
(Will be never tested) PICASA ALBUM DOWNLOADER save or upload PICASA photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FREE UPLOADER FOR FACEBOOK uploads photos to your FACEBOOK account
(Will be never tested) GDOCSOPEN syncs between GDOCS and your HD
(FR text) (Will be never tested) PHOTOS DESKTOP DOWNLOADER (save PICASA, FLICK, PHOTOBUCKET)
(Will be never tested) FAVBROWSER save or upload browser settings
(Windows software) (Will be never tested) BLOGGERBACKUP
(Will be never tested) FLICKR SHEDULR saves or send FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) GOOGLE TAKEOUT is the official methods to save/backup your contents on Google (part of dataliberation.org)
(Bonus URL) (Will be never tested) PHOTO UPLOADER FOR FACEBOOK
(Bonus URL) (Macintosh) TIMEMACHINESCHEDULER
(Bonus URL) (Macintosh) TIME MACHINE BUDDY
MAILSTORE (save and restore e-mails on demand) (big attachments are zapped ?)
MAILBROWSERBACKUP (save and restore e-mails on demand ?)
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WP TIME MACHINE (WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog)
(Will be never tested) IDRIVE (WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog) (already on this document)
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS plug-in for backuping this kind of blog
(Works) WORDPRESS (and other CMS generic) method for backuping this kind of blog
(Will be never tested / DIY installation) WORDPRESSBACKUP.ORG
(Will be never tested / DIY installation) TWEETNEST
(Will be never tested) IDRIVE FOR WORDPRESS
(Will be never tested) BACKUP-TECHNOLOGY (WORDPRESS)
(Will be never tested) Maybe a dupe document ? (WORDPRESS)
(Will be never tested) Maybe a dupe document ? (TWITTER)
(Will be never tested) GILLWARE (backup "Quickbooks and Peachtree data files")
(Will be never tested) DROPBOX SHELL TOOLS
(Will be never tested) DOWNLOADR save FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) copy photos to your FLICKR account by e-mail
(Will be never tested) PICASA UPLOADER ou PICASAUPLOADER (upload PICASA pictures on FACEBOOK)
(Will be never tested) WORDPRESS BACKUP TO DROPBOX
(Will be never tested) GETPHOTOLIVE save FACEBOOK photos in your HD
DROPPUB (Windows script to save files to DROPBOX) (use clipboard / if i was you i will avoid this)(Will be never tested) BACKUP SQL
EASY PHOTO UPLOADER FOR FACEBOOK
CLOUDEXPORT (export a lot of GOOGLE services, TWITTER, RSS, IMAP...)
POWERGDOCS uploads and downloads on GOOGLE DOCS
PHOTO IMPORTER copy FACEBOOK photos to G+
(read my comment) SOS SOCIAL BACKUP FOR FACEBOOK (free4life and 4all) backup FACEBOOK contents (5GB max) (warning, main goal of this offer is you download PC/mac software and paid but you can jump this step, it will works anyway ;)
FACEBOOK2ZIP
TERRA GIGA (Spain)
Pack Fnac Multimédia (France) (25GB / 19 euros) (no answer)
IKEEPINCLOUD (2 GB gratuit) (French)
(closed ?) MEGAWORLD from MEGAUPLOAD TEAM
(Still beta for US now ? dunno...) ICLOUD (5 GB) (An apple product is mandatory ? dunno...) ASUSWEBSTORAGE (Depend of Taiwan=China country)
(Only on USA?) GOOGLE MUSIC ? [50GB (20000 songs) of your own music / no copy of them - no exchange !]
(CRASHED ?) PRIMADESK backup tweets from TWITTER (it uses a specific gmail account as storage)
FIABEE (sync data between social or well-known internet services)
SOCIALFOLDERS.ME backup a lot of things (in beta)
MAXXO (5GB free in the beginning of 2012 ???)
ADDIE.IT (upload does not works)
As i explained before, LIVEDRIVE service was ejected from my tests when i decided to test the core service in 2009 (see above the reason) but now they have plenty of resellers which decide to purpose the service for free or for a low-cost price since the summer 2011: the comments of users was "they send me my password in plain text, encrypted data transfer is not by default, business-plan resellers is only short-term, i refuse to send my data coz i'm sure the service will close in 6 months (good comment because backify was on this case and stop after about 33 days sic!), i'm sure the reseller is alone to manage his service...":
ZOVO / ZOVO.CO (software download at www.myzovo.com)
ASADRIVE (1TB / 4$)BEECLOUD.EU (512 GB free sic !)
CLOUD-HD (512 GB for 3$/month)BACKZUP (512 GB free)
List of others LIVEDRIVE resellers with no free offers: INFIDRIVE, KEEPMYFILESSAFE, TAPNET.BIZ
AEROFS
BITCASA (unlimited offer with their business-plan are too strange for some storage bloggers including me ;)
QUANP (beta only reserved to US residents)
FILEBOX (Depend of Panama country)
NOCS (Windows tool to edit/modify/delete text documents)
CHATPAST (Backup IM text chat)
http://www.backupreview.info/2009/12/11/major-geeks-online-backup-will-use-sos-online-backups-local-and-off-site-backup-technology/ (really free ? what is the offer ? hidden trial offer ? does not work)
http://www.bytekeeper.com/pricing.html ("100% Zero-knowledge Privacy" ????)
(seems a fake announce) JUPITERFILES (WARNING ! can be a scam or the 1234th copy of RS/MU !) (wait and see...)
Official FACEBOOK "download your informations" method
YAHOO MAIL (claims to authorize unlimited file storage on main page (see tooltip) and in fact refuse them on help and purpose ZUMODRIVE as third-party apps which is limited to 1+1GB)
In France, Allianz (with "Air France"), MMA and "Crédit Mutuel" insurances (Digiposte from "La Poste" soon too) offers this "coffre-fort numérique",
size files is generally limited to 10MB per file it is logicial ;) all kind of files can be uploaded inside it ? 100% securized ok but with RAID0 ? sic!
Competitors are:
STORRD, notificationvault, homeBubble and securibox.
(Android) PHOTOCLOUD (upload without warning every taken photos on facebook or picasa / dunno if default flag is private ^^)
BLOCK-LEVEL: To reduce upload time and bandwidth when you regurarly update a file, the file is cut on X KiloBytes packets and only file modified packets are sent.
CDP: Continuous/Real-time data protection (every file changes will be backed up automatically and immediatly)
DEDUPLICATION (A.K.A's DEDUP or DE-DUP): Before every upload, the software send the checksum (size and MD5/SHA1 hash) to avoid you to send the whole file if another customer have already sent this file before you.
DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP: Permit to quickly restore a backup by only keeping the main and the last differential backup.
FTP monothread: means you can not upload more than one file in same time. FYI (depending of the FTP service), the transfert is either refused without reason or either it loops forever.
HOTLINK
INCREMENTAL BACKUP: Permit to quickly backup by using the main backup and all the intermediate core backup files. Do not go to the extremes by using/keeping dozens/hundreds of incremental files coz the restoration can be very slow ! common rules are 6 incremental backups and one incremental for the 7th.
RAID0 data security: None (only increase performances).
RAID1 data security: Data is copied in 2 disks in real time [1 disk can crash, every TB of the new disk can be rebuilded in 2009 in less than 30 minutes].
RAID5 data security: Same as RAID1.
RAID6 data security: Data is copied in 3 disks in real time [2 disks / 3 can crash in same time but every TB of every crashed disk(s) can be rebuilded in 2009 in about 24 hours].
RAID10 (AKA's RAID1+0) data security: Same as RAID1.
RAIN data security: Data is copied in X disks in real time. More you have/add disks on the pool, more the security is better...
(1) In others words, "Do you make backup of our backups ?"
(2) This case explain if other methods are available, some services permit to using WebDAV or downloading a classical HTTP or FTP URLs instead of the classical hard-disk file selection thanks to your browser. Notice some services can offer proprietary software but i do not privilegiate this kind of services so my document does not follow it for this table ;)
(3) Test launched since my VPS (thanks to NFRANCE again for this gift ;)
(4) Do not forget this "limited" word is relative because some unlimited services can be so slow that limited service is better than unlimited... A small well known tip (if you do not have a fixed IP) is to reboot your modem to obtain a new IP
(5) For testing services which refuses non-multimedia files, i have created a 100MB unheardable/uncompressable MP3 file which is a horrible mix of two TechnoDance NEXUS group albums, this test file as the original song are on CreativeCommons licence.
(6) Some services can use private/public folder *OR* secret URL for individuals or grouped content. Please read help to know methods before registering
Q: What's about file encryption for file backup services ?
A: This kind of option is not checked by me sorry. Crypt yourself, they are lot of free/open-source tools...
Q: Why tables contains a lot of empty field ?
Q: Why you do not list services with file history (able to recover old backup data since X days) ?
A: Too many services listed on this document changes every day and gives me a lot of works.
Q: Why you do not speak about GDISK, GSPACE and GMAIL DRIVE here ?
A: I do not like workaround method for storage... and also they are on this list some great and free REAL storage services which can give you the same (or even better) QoS than Google ! Google is not perfect, in 2006 he has destroyed emails forever by error
EDIT ABOUT GOOGLE (February 21 2010): With his new offer launched X months ago, Google officially authorize data * At this date 1 GB of data storage is guaranteed free for all if you use Google Docs interface / if you pay required fees Google guarantee you can storage any files even if you use Gmail as gateway BUT if you do not pay anything, the 7.2 GB offered for Gmail service still give you no legal guarantees but seems tolerated.
Q: RAID5 or RAID6 really gives a security ?
A: The calculated guess / unguaranteed risk to losing some datas is about 1 / 3 billion in RAID5 and 1 / 55 billions in RAID 6 (UNVERIFIED NUMBERS I REPEAT AGAIN)
(Bonus URL) A Google PDF which explain disk failures
RAID5 with a risk of 3%/year/HD crash = (0.03*((1/365/(1/(24*2)))))*(0.03*((1/365/(1/(24*2)))))
RAID6 with a risk of 3%/year/HD crash = (0.03*(1/365))*(0.03*(1/365))*(0.03*(1/365))
(of course as explained in the google doc, 3% stays a false fixed value coz it depends of HD quality, date of crash (most of crash durates before 6 month and after 2 years) and more and more... i repeat again and again and again all these values are calculated guess !!!
More details here in the common part for users
Q: What is the best backup policy ?
A: In 2011, for important data for an home user use, the best well known / well used value is "2 crypted online + 2 offline (CD/DVD/USB penkey or harddisk)" or 3 online + 1 offline.
Q: How to do on this list ?
A: Your service must:
- be 100% free or have a free offer,
- be in English (or French ;),
- permit to upload minimum 500 MB per file with more than 30 days retention after latest download *OR* 100 MB per file with unlimited storage (professionnal services or WebOS with high QoS are added whatever size it offers. Free FTP/WebDaV uploads services can be added too with specific low conditions),
- display all these states quoted below in your main page, TOS or FAQ and do not claim vague things as e.g "Your files will never expire as long as they're often downloaded" because it is sure for me in all case i immediatly forgot your service because i'm not a forecaster sic !
- not sucks ! force to download adwares or answer to surveys to grab wanted file, can not download my tiny test file after upload, refuse extension file after the end of upload, too restrictive conditions or changed restrictions are given after upload or before download, abandonned website, too busy when we wish to download a file (but not enough for displaying ads), purpose space disk lower than promised, create a (c) 2006 when domain name exist since 2008, answers to my mail more than 2 months, does not works under Linux, accept upload and reject files at the end of transfer because disk are full since a lot of months, lot of 404 errors, no email contact excepting the WHOIS ask your twitter/facebook/myspace password, does not warn X weeks before the account, cancellation, explain they use RAIN or RAID without other information, not be a reseller/partner of an another service and more and more... this list grows every month sic !
More details here in the common part for webmasters
A Bonus URL for you ;)
Same kind of gift ;)
Since 2010: Too many changes. For best webpage change detection, choose a service below as CHANGEDETECTION or FOLLOWTHATPAGE online service or URLWARNING.NET software ;)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- JavaScript used to sort tables is on MIT License.
No money to help me ? Subscribe to these free online services and receive extra storage as me ;)
Pas d'argent pour me soutenir ? souscrivez à ces services de stockage gratuits et gagnez comme moi de l'espace en plus ;)DROPBOX IDRIVE WUALA MINUS
on vivilprojectGOOGLE PLUS
or click here if you prefer FACEBOOK
|
Your suggestions and comments interest me !
To display my e-mail address, complete and validate the sentence
| "It's hot outside, it is due to the |
Keywords: cloud backup on line online free software java RS MU filesharing ultimate list alternative competitor legal file sharing storage backup comparison longterm long term long-term memories for life forever always securized protected
followed servers are only used it to improve the popularity of this webpage ;)
2SHARED ARCHIV.TO AXIFILE DEPOSITFILES CROCKO EGOSHARE ENTERUPLOAD FASTLOAD FASTLOAD.NET FILEFACTORY FILES.TO FLYUPLOAD HOTFILE HOTSHARE JUMBOFILES LETITBIT.NET LOAD.TO MEGAFTP NETLOAD.IN RAPIDSHARE.DE RAPIDSHARE RAPIDSHARE.NET SENDSPACE SHAREDZILLA STORAGE.TO TURBOUPLOAD UPLOADCELL UPLOADED.TO UP-THIS.NET YOURFILEHOST UPLOADING ZIPPYSHARE ZSHARE.NET