Backup service automatically uploads your email, contacts
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Internet security provider McAfee has announced Online Backup, a service that automatically uploads hard drive data to a remote server via the internet.
The service, which comes with unlimited storage, automatically finds important data to back up, such as contacts, email and documents, and also allows the user to perform manual updates.
CNET News.com has the full story on McAfee Online Backup here.
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1. Gareth Evans
When I run my backup to my NAS drive it's just over 2GB. If I were to backup this data (and I've been selective in what I back up) to an Internet facility like McAfee's offering how long would it take to upload ?
Well I've got a quite speedy 1MegaBIT upload on my ADSL. So that's 2 GigaBYTES at 1 MegaBIT per second (at best) so call that .125 MegaBYTES per second. 2,000 MegaBYTES divided by .125 = 16000 seconds or 267 minutes (flat out remember) or about 4.5 HOURS. If you only have a standard 256KiloBIT upload speed, as most broadband users have, we can multiply that by about 4 to get to nearly 18 HOURS.
I hope it's clever enough to only send what's changed the next time it runs so that the amount of data is vastly reduced.