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Does Amazon S3 make any sort of guarantees on your data?

I've read over the agreements several times, and I can't find anything that guarantees Amazon will not lose or corrupt your data. Do they make any such guarantees? Can I trust S3 as my long term backup storage?
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Is there a good online backup solution for SBS2003?

I support an environment for a non-profit that is a single SBS 2003 server running Exchange and Sharepoint. They are in need of a decent backup solution that I would prefer incorporate online backups, possibly with local copies as well using a…
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Finding a backup and synchronization solution

I'm having difficulties to find a backup and synchronization solution with the following characteristics: Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac Transfer only new/modified bits of modified files Maintain multiple versions of files (even deleted…
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How do you organize folders for future scaling?

What is the best way to organize folders for future scaling? I'm in progress to launch a new website. I expect that in the future I will have to deal with storage capacity of uploaded photos, respectively I will have to distribute them on multiple…
BNC
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Online File Sharing that acts just like LAN shared drives, etc

Have a small business client that wants to move their current file share to the web. Specs are as follows, 20 to 30 GB of space, file sizes are normal (nothing more than 50 to 100 mb) 3 users ideal solution would be exact same functionality as…
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Offsite backup solution that supports USB external drives?

I am looking for an affordable and simple online backup solution for our server's data. It is a simple file server running windows 7, however all of the data is on an external usb Drobo. I was hoping to use the Carbonite backup solution, but they do…
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Choosing online free drive storage (for sharing spreadsheets)

I'm considering using some free web file space hosting service. Do you have any experience with them? I would particularly like to share Excel files, so people will be able to work on them simultaneously. You can suggest any service that: offers…
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Online Server Backup Storage

Hopefully someone here can help me. I've been using a normal hosting account for my backups up until now. today they have told me I'm violating their terms and conditions. I thought it wouldn't be allowed but it's worked for the last 6 months so I…
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Auto-Backup via FTP service

I'm wondering if there is any online service which keeps incremental backups from a server incrementally. I'm looking at Mozy etc. but I'm not sure if they offer this service. I basically need a backup service for RackSpace Cloud sites. I do not…
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Synology DS210j & online backup: what do people recommend?

I've just purchased a Synology DS210j for my home network and would like to backup this NAS online. I noticed that DiskStation Manager v2.3 provides various options including Amazon S3 and rsync: Does anybody have some real usage against cost…
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How can MediaFire afford unlimited storage space and bandwidth?

How can MediaFire (and other online storage websites) afford to offer unlimited storage space, as well as unlimited bandwidth?
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