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Re: Cox "Secure" Backup, not Secure. The bandwidth cap was the original reason I was going to use the "Cox Secure Backup" service. I assumed the service cox provides wouldn't count against bandwidth usage.. I ended up signing up with crashplan.com. They offer several different clients and allow you to backup networked drives. I guess I will dump my backups to an external drive and drop it at my rack in the datacenter to "seed" the backup to crashplan. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | It uses Mozi but, I agree, anything Cox provides, shouldn't count against the monthly data caps. I'd like to see data caps illegal to phone, dsl and cable providers. It's just an extra way of dipping into our wallets and not necessary.
-Rob |
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 Optimus2357Premium
join:2010-11-21
West Warwick, RI
kudos:1 | And how would they do this without determining what traffic your sending and where your sending it? I would rather have a smaller "dumb" bandwidth pipe then one that is managed in such a way. Whats next, have HBO GO not count while Netflix does? Slippery slope. |
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Optimus2357Premium
join:2010-11-21
West Warwick, RI
kudos:1 | Of-course they do, they just don't give priority to any specific traffic other then to manage it's efficiency. Maybe to a degree with their VOIP traffic, but since I don't use VOIP I don't have a problem with that. If they start giving special privileges to the data on their network based on personal interests...well that leads to a ugly future.
My opinion? Build a NAS, do your daily backups to that and then do less frequent backups(when you caps allow) from the NAS to a cloud of your choice. Conserves bandwidth vs your cap, full control of client/server, faster, and not dependent on a ISP. Also you can set up your NAS in RAID so you can get reduncy as well as backup. |
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Rob_Premium
join:2008-07-16
Mary Esther, FL | I have 400 a month data cap, which I hardly touch, I really want to be able to use this service because we have unlimited data on the backup which is nice. I have some important things but my NAS server in house backs them up. It's almost 2 TB's worth of stuff.
-Rob |
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Optimus2357Premium
join:2010-11-21
West Warwick, RI
kudos:1 | My point is you can control what your backing up and slowly do it over the months from NAS to cloud. Say a few days before the end of the month when the Caps reset you have 200MB left, back up 200MB then wait until next month. You can also backup a little more then 200 maybe and see if you get a notice. I have found the restrictions are tighter or looser based on how population dense your area is. Once everything is on the Cox server bandwidth will be minimal because your just saving changes. |
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