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Online backups with Google Docs

February
15

I have been using Dropbox for the past 2 years. It’s an utterly fantastic system that syncs a folder on your desktop with a private online file locker. You can sync that one folder across many computers. When you change a file on one computer, it changes it across all others. This means I can work on a file on my home desktop, and when I get to work, that file has been updated on my work laptop. Once I hit save on a file, DropBox automatically uploads the new file.

DropBox gives users 2GB of space for free. You can get 250mb more by referring friends to the site. You can also pay $100 a year for 50Gb, or $200 for 100Gb of space. Also, Dropbox does not have an online file editor. You must download files and edit them locally.

Enter Insync, a fantastic cloud backup system that is identical to Dropbox except that it syncs all your files to your Google Docs account!

This means:

1) You can edit many of your files online (Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations)

2) You can expand your space for a much lower price. 20Gb costs $5 per year! 80Gb costs $20 per year! You can go up to 1,024Gb for $256 per year! Awesome.

I highly recommend giving the system a try. Everyone should have an automated off-site backup for their most important files.