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Do you have any experience with ElephantDrive online backup and storage service. They offer Unlimited storage for $49.95/year which is not expensive for this kind of service as far as I know.

I went for 15 day trial and it looks quite promising but I need to be sure that my data are 100% save there.

I want to backup my private photos/videos which I have about 170GB right now.

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First I have to say:

Nowhere is 100% safe.
You should use a service like this as a backup, not as the only storage.

They run their service on Amazon S3 so it should be pretty safe.

Second:
I don't believe in Unlimited Storage there has to be a limit somewhere perhaps severe bandwidth throttling. Read the terms carefully.

That said I don't think you'll have any problems with as little as 170GB

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Any throttling might be fine for photos, which you might not need to restore as soon as possible in case of problems. For a full backup, which one would surely like to be restored quickly, most online backup services are simply too slow, in my opinion. (See superuser.com/questions/19775/… for some references on that.) – Arjan Sep 26 '09 at 14:07
Thanks Nifle. I want to use it as a backup only, I've got a linux machine with LVM2 and RAID5 at home which I made just for storage purposes. The idea to sync everything or just a couple of folders to remote server. I've already uploaded 150GB which took 9 days to send :) – Novitzky Sep 27 '09 at 9:22
Nine days! No wonder it's cheap. It would take me close to 4 months to backup my data at that rate. – Nifle Sep 27 '09 at 12:25
The 9 days are not necessarily caused by the backup provider. When just looking at the client's (yours) internet connection, then with asynchronous connections (ADSL versus synchronous DSL), the upload might take longer than the download. On the other hand: if one needs to restore due to some virus, then maybe many more people are restoring at the very same moment... ;-) – Arjan Sep 27 '09 at 18:45
@Nifle, @Arjan van Bentem - This is mostly because of my ISP (Virgin Media UK) as I have 20Mbps/740kbps (Down/Up), but I also tried to send some stuff from work and it was about 2Mbps when my company can upload about 40Mbps – Novitzky Sep 28 '09 at 16:41
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