This webpage is dedicated to every "Wikipedia Zorro's users"
who prefer to keep outdated infos...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...
DO NOT FORGET THIS FAQ IS YOURS, PLEASE HELP ME TO MANAGE THIS DOCUMENT UP TO DATE
IN 2009, A LOT OF SERVICES HAS DECREASED THEIR OFFERS, QUICKLY
CLOSED OR HAVE BECOME UNSTABLE/EXPENSIVE
IMHO 2010 WILL NOT BE GOOD EITHER :-( CHOOSE SEVERAL SERVICES TO UPLOAD SENSITIVE DATAS EXCEPT IF U LOVE RISK.
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(a) must be deleted if content becomes not used or outdated AND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.
WARNING FOR GOOGLE DOCS !
The fact to convert some documents in GoogleDocs format can give you ugly documents !!!
IMHO uncheck this default option every time you upload to this service !!!
Specific WEBOS: EYE-OS.CO.UK (a public EYEOS server) (1 GB)
EYE-OS.INFO (a public EYEOS server) (Unknown)
ZIMDESKTOP (a clone of EYEOS) (Unknown)
MYWEBDESKTOP.NET (Unknown but tiny)
PEEPEL (Unlimited but with fair use policy)
WARNING ! FALSE ANSWER:
(Bought by F-Secure) STEEKR or French service MACLE de VOILA.FR (1 GB) ("Daily Backup in another geographical location" / answered by mail but $6.7 of her ToS says "Vous reconnaissez être informé que le service de stockage qui Vous est proposé n'intègre pas de procédé de cryptage ni de double sauvegarde des données sur un second serveur.")
WARNING ! TOOLBAR or/and SPYWARE IN EXCHANGE OF THE FREE SERVICE: MYVIRTUALDISK (5 GB) (You must download and kept a official spyware in exchange of this free service) (a spyware ?)ZDRIVE (5 GB) ("All files have a daily backup")
(a) "if you exceed the free 5 GB of storage space ("Default Storage Limit") you will not be able to receive new emails until deleting old emails."
(b) Give upload/download priority to paid account. Lots of pop-up to invite user to pay.
VERY LONG STORAGE TIME (these servers keep your small AND LEGAL files from 30 MB forever):
CRAZYSHARING (1 GB / 1000 days retention after last download) (average DL 445 Ko/s) (testfile is here)
UNLIMITED STORAGE TIME (these servers keep your small AND LEGAL files from 30 to 500 MB forever):
UPLOADSOME (testfile is here) (2 GB) (His owner confirm me it is unlimited but i wait a screenshot) (upload non-members files are public ;)
(galaxyscript/MFH/xtraupload...) WILL BE TESTED LATER:
(90% of these amateur websites does not stay more than 1 year so i wait "this period + 1 month" to include it on my list)
here, (will be tested in June 2010) here, (will be tested in June 2010) here, (will be tested in June 2010) here, (will be tested in October 2010) here, (will be tested in October 2010) here, (will be tested in October 2010) here, (will be tested in October 2010) here, (will be tested in October 2010) here, (will be tested in November 2010) here, (will be tested in November 2010) here, (will be tested in January 2011) here, (will be tested in February 2011)
A LIST OF UNLIMITED MULTIMEDIA STORAGE FOR LIFE:
(please notice these services will be never deeply tested by me)
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) PIXUMCLARKCOLORRITZPIXPEPHOTOLIFEPICS (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)
(Bonus URL) MIGRATR (move between a lot of popula 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)
"GAME OVER" services AKA's "come and play again with us with a new domain name":
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 (one connexion asked every month, does not send before a warn message...))
WARNING !
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 !See tooltips to know real sad examples of well known services bad QoS are
GMAIL/GOOGLE,
UPLINE/HP,
CARBONITE,
OVI/NOKIA,
SIDEKICK/MICROSOFT,
SWISSDISK,
some webhosters AND
MOZY.
DO NOT FORGET TO USE SAME TOOL TO JOIN FILES YOU HAVE SPLITTED
BECAUSE SOME ADDITIONAL CHECKSUM DATA CAN BE ADDED...
IF YOU ACCEPT TO PAY A LITTLE PER MONTH...
In this small part, i list paid service with honest price for home users
(<=5$/month or 60$/year) ("2 or more years minimal contract offers" are not
listed), unlimited or clever fair use space, good policy backup (daily backup
backup is copied on several locations) displayed by stars ; the speed
download/upload and file encryption has not been checked, the ability to
download saved data in all case with the browser has been forgotten to be asked
for some services...
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
REVIEW OF
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 $5 per month:
- 100 GB of storage,
- 25 GB of daily transfer,
- Sharing of a folder or files (link is available for 7 days and 10 uses).
For people (like me) who store OS partitions or big files, uploading and downloading can be done by the browser but resuming cancelled transfers is not possible.
It is not very good if you have an unstable Internet connexion. Use of files splitting softwares such as HJSPLIT is an almost mandatory tool to be used with DIINO if your main files are greater than 100 MB.
My uploading speed was 60 KB/s while my downloading speed was 700 KB/s. These results are lower than what I had expected. edit February 2010: upload still at 90 KB/s download up to 1600 KB/s :-)
I'll end now with a positive point ;) Security (one of the most important points too often forgotten by other reviewers) consisted of the classical SSL standard used for transferring data, the use of a RAID system (i hope RAID1 or greater ;) ), and a daily backup at another physical location.
We can see with this small review that DIINO loves easy and secure data for long-term archiving but is slower compared to its competitors.
(Thanks AL and Michael to check my english grammar ;)
REVIEW OF
As others of his competitors, MyOtherDrive is a Java application with a very
nice interface.
For 5$ 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. edit February 2010: upload was 40 KB/s download stays a 450 KB/s :-(
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.
REVIEW OF DSTORAGE.FR: Soon
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 ;)
- 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),
- UPLOAD OPEN AND LOCKED FILES,
- (if you wish to send your big files to X competitors in same yime) 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 (common file sharing): Some file extensions of every
customer backup are shared between all customers and the core server detect in
the backup you wish to upload a well know common file 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 ;)
- 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 (block-level incremental backup ?),
- Sync data between a lot of electronic products in same time (PC, notbook, iphone...),
- Daily, Manual or continuous-backup/CDP (all the time or during low CPU works),
- 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
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 ;)
- Upload or download thanks to a browser,
- 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,
- Log files,
- GUI OSeS (Windows / Mac / Linux / Java...),
- Language of browser GUI,
- Language of software GUI,
- MS Outlook backups (thanks to a plug-in),
- (for pro) Lotus Notes/Domino, Oracle, Exchange, MySQL backups (thanks to a plug-in).
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 ^^
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 (25 $ / 10 GB) (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 $18.99 on Amazon) SPAREBACKUP (Mandatory software to upload) (60$ / 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)
(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)
(I Wait answer) WEBROOT (50$ / ?????? / 10 GB)
(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) 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 ?!)
WARNING ! FOR SOME SERVICES UNLIMITED STORAGE CAN BE CAPPED ;)
SOME (UNTESTED) TOOLS TO BACKUP ON SMARTPHONES (IPHONE, BLACKBERRY, NOKIA and more and more...):
(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) DMAILER (DMAILER SYNC) (3 GB / 6$/year) (only for smartphones ?!)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) SUGARSYNC (2 GB Free) (IPHONE, ANDROID, BLACKBERRY) (already listed on this document)
(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 (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)
(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) (IPHONE) (already listed on this document)
(Will be never tested i have not this kind of object) GOARUNA (unlimited) (ANDROID) (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)
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 lmawsuits)
SOCIAL / REMOTE BACKUP: CUCKU (free social backup online tool to your friend or family) BUDDYBACKUP (free social backup online tool to your friend or family) CRASHPLAN (social backup / FREE if you backup to your friend or family or remore computer) WUALA (social backup) (already on this document) OMEMO (social backup) 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)
LIST of services which accept FTP, WebDAV, HTTPS, SFTP, FTPS, RSYNC
(ideal for send regular backup)
DL.FREE.FR (FTP) (already present on this document) 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) FILEKEEPER.ORG (FTP) (10GB) (always public files?)
EASY-SHARE (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) NIVIO (FTP) (already on this document) (ftp monothread only) NEOVOS (FTP) (already on this document) (ftp.neovos.com) MEMOPAL (WedDAV1FICHIER (FTP) (NO HOTLINK)
Bonus URLs: GLADINET (A WebDAV/FTP/S3/Box.net/Skydrive client (now freeware offer honest free functions !!!)
WARNING FOR GOOGLE DOCS !
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"
A WebDAV/FTP client (now freeware but dev stopped) netdrive.net A WebDAV/FTP client (free for home use)
anyclient * netdrive by novell http://repository.windowsdream.com/ApplicationsEXE/NetDrive-4.1-EN.exe
http://www.enginsite.com/ssh-webdav-ftp-sftp-client.htm
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 ?
These servers accepts FTP/WedDAV but have a retention:
GOOD.NET (testfile is here) (FTP is ok but 90 days retention)
IF YOU PREFER COMMANDLINE APPS TO UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD:
SLIMRAT (monothread but multicnx if you active it on slimrat.conf) PLOWSHARE (monothread) (can upload on RS,MU et 2SHARED)
and FATRAT, FREERAPID, RSGET, TUXLOAD (untested)
BACKUPMY.NET BACKUPMYTWEETS backups email, tweets/twitter, blogs... TWEETBACKUP backups tweets from TWITTER TWEETSCAN backups tweets from TWITTER BACKUPIFY backup a lot of things (tweets is free)
(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)
(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) 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) GOOGLE DOCS BACKUP
(Will be never tested) SOCIALSAFE.NET saves FACEBOOK contents in your HD (cheap price)
(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) FOTOBOUNCE save or upload FACEBOOK and FLICKR photos in your HD
(Will be never tested) FACEPAD saves FACEBOOK photos in your HD
(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
(Will be never tested) PICASA ALBUM DOWNLOADER save or upload PICASA photos in your HD
(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 The official (well known IMP4/POP3) method to grab his gmail content....
(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 ?)
(Will be never tested / DIY installation) WORDPRESSBACKUP.ORG
(Will be never tested) BACKUP-TECHNOLOGY (WORDPRESS)
(Will be never tested) GILLWARE (backup "Quickbooks and Peachtree data files")
QUANP (beta only reserved to US residents) FILEBOX (Depend of Panama country)
SPECIFIC SYNC TOOLS:
NOCS (Windows tool to edit/modify/delete text documents)
STRANGE OFFER:
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)
DICO:
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
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 groupalbums, 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
F.A.Q FOR USERS:
Q: Every services i have choosen are closed, i have lost my data forever ! i
hate you !
A: You're not lucky, i repeat again and again and again and again lot of these
services are unstable or can change its ToS without inform you (and me) sic !
Next time i hope you will pay a professionnal service or your own dedicated
server / VPS.
Q: What's about file encryption for file backup services ?
A: This kind of option is not checked by me sorry.
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: Why your FAQ(s) are ugly ?
A: I prefer wasting my time to update documents instead of graphic shemes...
Q: Why you list too many services ? It is really annoying !
A: Because small services *can* be better than big services... I believe that
bad-businessplan/unstable services will not stay forever on my list(s) but
i totally agree they are too many services which are a "carbon copy" of another
service(s) and does not bring news things for users :-X
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 !!!
F.A.Q FOR WEBMASTERS:
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 5 GB per file with 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 !
Q: I'm not agree with your bad comment about my site ! I will immediatly
call my lawyer and blahblahblahblahblah...
A: Are you very furious ? It is generally i have REALLY wasted my time with
you...
Of course, nobody is perfect and i can do an technical error... (i think to
WATCHOUR monitoring service in one of my publication) but it's a pity than too
many services forget his customer relations, as quicky reply to comments or bug
reports: I can see since November 2008 my complains comments
are checked by competitive monitoring peoples but it is also services which has
never answered to my mails and prefering to pay for "last resort solutions" sic !
Q: Why you spoken of my "ToS" ?
A: Because one of your competitor well remembered me than i must read ToS ;)
Q: Do you accept partnerships ?
A: I'm only open to win-win offer(s) so do not waste our time to unfair
deal(s) as poorly affiliations, "PR 0" link exchange and more and more...
Q: Why you take now a lot of times to add me on the tables you create ?
A: Lot of prehistoric services decrease her offers or disappears in 2010 due to
recession. Why a new service created X months ago (and which is in 90% of cases
a copy of another excepting the GUI) will not do the same thing as these
services ?
December 16 2009: Too many changes. For best change detection, choose a service
below as
changedetection
or followthatpage
online service or urlywarning.net software ;)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
- JavaScript used to sort tables is on MIT License.
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