Re:Are the days of unlimited online backup over? Our answer ...
by BlazingFrog on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:53PM
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Good point. Also, unlike others I'd tried in the past (iDrive, Carbonite), you don't have direct access to your backed up data.
You essentially file a online "request" to retrieve this or that file/folder and wait for their email to tell you where to get it.
It probably allows them to store the data in a more compartmentalized, potentially cheaper, environment. Since most people will almost never attempt to restore data, it's not a big problem.
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