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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by flexd on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @06:53AM (#11760387)
Except if you have a bit of data you'll spend a few years uploading it. Their servers are slow. Only getting like 5-20Mbit/s, mostly slower here in Europe.
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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by danieldk on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @08:23AM (#11760944)
I use Arq - I can choose where I upload it and I can have multiple destinations.
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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by gambiting on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @09:12AM (#11761235)
Arq does not offer storage on the cheapest plan(I have no idea what you are paying for then), and even the $120/year plan only includes 250GB of storage. If I signed up with Crashplan I would upload literally all of my data to it - so 4TB of personal backups then.
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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by danieldk on Tuesday May 24, 2016 @10:08AM (#11761597)
Arq is actually a standalone (incremental encrypted) backup tool, though they are now also offering their own storage. Arq can be used with Amazon S3, Dropbox, OneDrive, sftp, Google Cloud Storage, etc.

E.g. I use Arq with my Office 365 subscription that costs me Euro 1.38 per month (four year academic discount) for 1TB.

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Re:TSA gave my MacBook Pro to another passenger at LAX, and ... by flexd on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:18AM (#11770375)
Arq only runs on Windows and OS X though. I would prefer to use something open-source, that runs on Linux. I won't be renewing my Crashplan subscription when it expires.
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