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kcyw on 30/12/2009 - 23:59 backupify.com (519 clicks)

Backupify is an online service that will automatically backup your accounts content and information for you. This will protect you from loss if a service ever suddenly becomes unavailable, your account is compromised, or data is unwittingly lost or corrupted.

Backupify is currently offering free unlimited accounts to anyone who signs up before January 31st. Gizmo confirmed that these free accounts will remain free forever even after their new pricing scheme goes into effect.

You also may want to consider that the Backupify service needs your login information for each of the accounts it is going to perform automatic backups on. This means that you have all of your passwords to these accounts "in one basket." If for some reason your Backupify account were ever compromised it could lead to your other accounts being compromised as well.

Keep in mind that there are alternatives to this service as well. If you would rather download the content to your hardrive or another location for safekeeping there are many free solutions designed to work with these individual services.

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  • SomeGuyOnOzB on 31/12/2009 - 01:03
    +1

    The concept sounds risky to me.

    Giving a 3rd party a heap of one's own logon details for various accounts.

    Let alone doing the work to try and research who is this group and why would I believe I could trust them. But I am a sceptic.

    I'm not voting positive or negative for this. Just leaving a word of caution and letting others decide for themselves.

    • Davo1111 on 31/12/2009 - 16:44

      +1 websites get hacked too often. Clouds have been known to lose data too, nothing can be 100% secure.

  • dawyndham on 31/12/2009 - 04:00

    Actually, for most services you don't need to supply your password to backupify. Say you give it permission to backup your Facebook account, it then redirects you to Facebook where you log in and tell Facebook to grant API permission. Backupify never has your password, and you can always revoke permission from within Facebook if you change your mind.

    There was only one account that I remember needing to give Backupify my details for and I think that was Hotmail.

  • YesPleaseThankYou on 31/12/2009 - 08:53
    +1

    This is crazy.

    First we get encouraged to use the cloud, now we have services to backup our data that is in the cloud. If you're going to have to do that then you're best off not sending data into the cloud in the 1st place.

    There is no way that I would centralise all of that personal information with one provider.

  • UFO on 31/12/2009 - 13:18

    i agree…. giving access to all my accounts to a 3rd party sounds very risky to me. all your data is 'backed up' on their servers and since that data is being transferred with no encryption (I assume), what's preventing hackers 'snooping' all that personal data? the fact is, every time your data is accessed by this service, it's being transmitted twice as much as what it would be if you simply accessed it directly.

    not voting negative because it may be useful to some people out there who cant be bothered backing up important data in a safer fashion, but still… there are much better/safer backup options available out there.

    • pais on 01/01/2010 - 17:38

      I would assume that a site priding itself on account security would have to have SSL enabled.

      • YesPleaseThankYou on 01/01/2010 - 18:17

        Even if it wants SSL, the problem is that many sites it claims to be able to backup, don't themselves provide encrypted connections.

        For me, the bigger risk is centralisation of all of that personal data. Facebook, itself, is bad enough for this, but add into the mix all of those other sites and you have a recipe for disaster if someone gets hold of your data.

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