Comcast online backup?

[WizeOne]

Just got an email that Comcast (my cable supplier) is offering for free, 2 gb of online backup. Any opinions here? Sounds pretty good to me.

I do perform periodic copy and paste backups to an external hard drive but this seems like it would be some additional insurance.

 

[jlinder]

Re: Comcast online backup?

Think of how long it will take you to upload and save and how long it will take to download if you need it.

Now think of a couple of 2GB flash drives. Pretty cheap and a lot faster to save to.

Two suggestions - get at least 2 and rotate them so you can have 2 versions and keep one off site.

 

[gss036]

Re: Comcast online backup?

I don't think 2 GB is big enough for a complete back up. I switched over to the New Norton System Comcast is going to and it takes some getting use to. It automatically sets sit for weekly back up. I started doing mine on regular CD's and after 2, I decided against doing that. I have thought about get something like suggested below. They also give you an option for DVD and says 1 is enough to d o it on. I don' thing I have a DVD burner on my computer though. After consider amount of fooling around, I just turned off that portion of the system.
It is definitely a good service, 1st week of use it stopped and quarantined a virus trying to come aboard my computer.