Back-Up Offer

[derekpara]

I've been offered a 100gb back-up service for my documents, files, photos etc at a cost of £22.99. Is this reasonable or are there other, cheaper, alternatives? I don't have loads of photos or music stored on my pc.

Cheers.

D

[VHG]

There are some free ones.

Some companies offer free space to get you registered (and charge if you want more space) so try one of them.

I made a list of them a few months ago and planned to try out some of them, but I have not got round to it yet.

This is the list, but I am not sure how many are still in operation

Microsoft SkyDrive

Google Drive

Dropbox

Box

Picasa

GMail - 10Gb?

Live Mesh?

KNOWHOW (LiveDrive) - Currys

ADrive.com

Synctoy?

Seedbox?

[Buenchico]

If you've got a DVD writer (which almost every modern computer has), simply copy everything onto DVDs. Each standard DVD can hold 4.7GB.

Alternatively use USB memory sticks (but, for archival storage, I'd have more faith in DVDs).

[derekpara]

I think I'll use DVDs as you suggest, Chris.

Thanks to you both.

D