VIVILPROJECT FREE ONLINE BACKUP LIST
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* backup / file sharing online list *
(c) 2008-2009 sebastien@willemijns.com
Last version available on http://www.willemijns.com/backup.htm
Thanks a lot to these VivilProject partners, too
Below contains the list of free box online storage which also permit to keep your documents "for life" in a private area, some services permit to share some of your contents but it is not the first need...
Next colorized table contains a list of free services which permit to store more data volume but in most of case, these data have an expiration date...
In the last part of this document, you will see some URLs to help you to manage your data as online java splitters, a dictionnary and more and more...
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HTTP/FTP or WebDAV Upload |
Status Bar Upload | Upload Resume | Upload Batch | Maximum upload per file |
Maximum storage |
Maximum DL volume |
Keep file if minimum... |
Average Upload |
Average Download |
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7 days (unregistered) |
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with Flash applet |
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| Data redundancy (1) |
HTTP/FTP or WebDAV Upload |
Status Bar Upload | Upload Resume | Upload Batch | Maximum upload per file |
Maximum storage |
Maximum DL volume |
Keep file if minimum... |
Average Upload |
Average Download |
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JOOCE (Unlimited... for the moment)
GLIDEDIGITAL (10 GB)
ORBITFILES (6 GB)
UPLOADINGIT (10 GB storage / 2 GB download per day)
MYSITES (5 GB expanded to 10 on demand)
BOXSTR (5 GB)
4SHARED (5 GB) (only backup for paid customer / answered by mail)
INBOX (5 GB for CA/UK/US residents else 2 GB) (No backup in free version) (a)
DIVSHARE (5 GB)
DESKTOPTWO (5 GB)
MESH (5 GB) (A Microsoft initiative which differs from Skydrive)
ESNIPS (5 GB)
MYOTHERDRIVE (5 GB) (10 GB of bandwidth per month) ("redundant storage. Second location planned in 3rd quarter 2009.") (b)
MYVIRTUALDISK (5 GB) (You must download and kept a official spyware in exchange of this free service)
G.HO.ST (5 GB) (use "Amazon S3" service)
SHARE by ADOBE (5 GB) (a lot of restricted extension)
SNAPDRIVE.NET (5 GB but 10 kbps for download files grin!) ("abnormal/near of a bug" offer values for free account)
OFILE (3 GB) ("All the files have a backup on an Ofile backup server.")
DROPBOX (2 GB) ("This service can delete files from free acount") ("Do backup of our backup") (quick support answer)
JOYENT (2 GB)
SPIDEROAK (2 GB) ""file history") ("we use our own in-house redundant storage system which is employed in several data centers.")MOZY (2 GB)
SYNCPLICITY (2 GB) (Use "S3" / confirmed by mail) (quick support answer)
FILEQUBE (2 GB)
IDRIVE (2 GB) (Backups of backups) (support 24/7 confirmed)
PERSONALGRID (2 GB)
ARKIVA (2 GB) (Multiple backup locations)MYBOOO (1 GB)
VMN.NET (1 GB)
WUALA (1 GB) (Can be unlimited for free if you share your HD thanks to a P2P process)
NIVIOLITE (1 GB)
STARTFORCE (1 GB)
WEBDESK.IN (1 GB)
FILEFREAK (1 GB)
DRIVEHQ (1 GB) ( / "our data is fully redundant and is backed up in near real-time")DROPBOKS (1 GB)
FILEDEN (1 GB) (no backup for free account / answered by mail)
WONDERFILE.NET (1 GB)
FREEDRIVE (1 GB) (powered by nirvanix)
FILESANYWHERE (1 GB) (click on FREE TRIAL to have free offer)
HUDDLE.NET (1 GB) (daily backup on another site)MYLIVEPAGE (1 GB)
OPENDRIVE (1 GB) (data are on redudant back up on several locations)OPENOMY (1 GB) [Use S3 (for free account too ? see main page)]
STEEKR or French service MACLE de VOILA.FR (1 GB) ("Daily Backup in another geographical location" / answered by mail)YUNTAA (1 GB) ("Backup of our backup")
ATOOLO (1 GB)
FILEPUB (500 MB) (delete me if no news in 2009)
MEDIASILO (500 MB) (Use S3")SITESLED (500 MB)
CLIP2NET (500 MB for members)
DROPSEND (250 MB) ("We do backup of backup")SMESTORAGE (250 MB) (use "S3")ARCHIVE-HOST (100 MB) (RAID for free accounts / answered by mail)DIGITALBUCKET.NET (100 MB) (Use "Amazon S3" service)FILE123 (50 MB) (Use "Amazon S3" service)JOGGLE (Unknown)
WORLDGROUPS (Unlimited) (Ask Credit Card !!!)
STOREWITH (one bug every minute !)
(a) "if you exceed the free 5 GB of storage space ("Default Storage Limit") you will not be able to receive new emails until deleting old emails."
(b) Give upload/download priority to paid account. Lots of pop-up to invite user to pay.
| Data redundancy (1) |
HTTP/FTP or WebDAV Upload |
Status Bar Upload | Upload Resume | Upload Batch | Maximum upload per file |
Maximum storage |
Maximum DL volume |
Keep file if minimum... |
Average Upload |
Average Download |
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after latest download |
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with proprietary software |
for registered users |
or 1 "counter reset" every 90 days in the account manager for registered users |
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after latest download |
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after latest download |
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after latest download |
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after latest download |
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| DL.FREE.FR (for French users) |
(with FTP) |
(with FTP) |
10GB FTP |
after latest download |
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| Data redundancy (1) |
HTTP/FTP or WebDAV Upload |
Status Bar Upload | Upload Resume | Upload Batch | Maximum upload per file |
Maximum storage |
Maximum DL volume |
Keep file if minimum... |
Average Upload |
Average Download |
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6GIGA (3 GB / 60 days retention after last download)
MYUPLOAD.DK (1 GB for registered users / files are kept forever) (to suscribe: email, username + password) (daily backup)
ENTERUPLOAD (500 MB for registered users / 60 days retention after last download)
SEEUPLOAD (500 MB / 365 days retention after last download) (testfile is here)
CRAZYSHARING (1 GB / 1000 days retention after last download) (average DL 445 Ko/s) (testfile is here)
DEPOSITFILES (2 GB / 30 days retention after last download)
YASTORAGE (1 GB / 30 days retention after last download)
DSFILESHARE (1 GB / 30 days retention after last download)
COMEBE (1 GB / 60 days retention after last download)
BOOMSPEED (1 GB / 60 days retention after last download)
MEDIAFIRE (100 MB) (testfile is here) (they ask to do use her service as a backup service)
UPLOAD.DJ (very slow) (500 MB / 30 days retention after last download)
UPLOADWAVE (501 MB / 30 days retention after last download)
WEBFILEHOST (500 MB / 30 days retention after last download)
HORDIT (server busy ?) (Unlimited storage but file has 30 Mo max size) (His owner inform me they use "S3" services in background)
IN.SOLIT.US (free unlimited but in beta since more than 2 years ! grin !) (retention is unknown)
(please notice these services will be never deeply tested by me)
| Private stuff (5) | Photo | Video | Music | Documents | Keep forever content | |
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Will be compressed if too big |
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(100 MB max) |
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(confirmed my mail) |
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seems hacked |
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| Private stuff (5) | Photo | Video | Music | Documents | Keep forever content | |
PICOY (no available contact) (seems in wait state)
WARNING: Some services can reduce quality of your upload or cut your videos grin !
Psssssst.... i give you a trick ;) on some services, you can upload audios file as video ;)
XDRIVE (will shortly close... very bad QoS in all case)
HUMYO (lost files... downgraded offer..)
ZIDDU (down since a lot of days...)
OOSAH ("upload has been disabled" without reason)
SKYDRIVE by MICROSOFT ! grin ! (can not download some files THFREE (display our IP grin !)
S3IMAGE (traceroute-nanog does not give an amazon.com AS number) (his script bugs)
WARNING !
DUE TO UNSTABLE BUSINESS PLANS AND TOO MANY AMATEUR WEBMASTERS
THESE SERVICES HAVE HIGH TURNOVER OR CAN DOWNGRADE HER OFFER IN ANY TIME !
IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO USE SEVERAL SERVICES IN SAME TIME TO AVOID LOST FILES !
JAVA HJSPLIT (FYI 9765625KB "binary notation" = 10GB "S.I notation")
JAVA JAXE
DO NOT FORGET TO USE SAME TOOL TO JOIN FILES YOU HAVE SPLITTED
BECAUSE SOME ADDITIONAL CHECKSUM DATA CAN BE ADDED...
The well known "AMAZON S3" (several dollars per month for 10 GB) (where are competitors for the same "value for my money" ?)
UPLINE by HP (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic)
MOZY (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic)
WEBHOSTINGPAD (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic)
ELEPHANTDRIVE (several dollars per month for unlimited traffic) (use "Amazon S3" services)
CARBONITE (several dozens of dollars per year for unlimited traffic)
ONLINESTORAGESOLUTION (10 $ per year for unlimited traffic ?)
OPENRSM (down ?)
RPS by OVH
BLUEHOST
HOSTMONSTER Unlimited Disk Space and BW for about 5 dollars per month
IXWEBHOSTING Same as precedent.
A review site about these kind of services
A (very very) huge deutch list
Another list
This service archives serious creativecommons or public domain contents
(big) list of free backup tool
"Amazon Simple Storage Service" AKA's "Amazon S3" (AS14618,16509 or 39111) (see their website for SLA)
CloudFS by MOSSO
NIRVANIX
BOX.NET
EMC by MOZY
FTP Upload: "curl ftp://ftp.domainname.com -T your.file -u user:password -v -C -"
Example: "curl ftp://dl.free.fr -T 10MB.TST -u user@free.fr:qwertytest -v -C -"
(To obtain batch to automatically upload contents on "dl.free.fr", send 2 euros by PayPal)
WebDAV Upload under Windows: "curl --user user:pass -T file.txt http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/ -o nul"
WebDAV Upload under Linux (and Mac?): "curl --user user:pass -T file.txt http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/ -o /dev/null"
WebDAV Download: "curl --user user:pass http://files.domainname.com:80/webdav/file.txt > file.exe"
GLADINET (download/upload from S3 and Skydrive)
FIREUPLOADER (download/upload from box.net)
Z_O_O_M'S FILE & IMAGE UPLOADER (upload from more than 70 services)
What is an hotlink ?
(1) In others words, "Do you make backup of our backups ? ;)
(2) Test launched since my VPS (thanks to NFRANCE again for this gift ;)
(3) Do not forget this "limited" word is relative because some unlimited services can be so slow that limited service is better than unlimited... A small tip (if you do not have a fixed IP) is to reboot your modem to obtain a new IP
(4) For testing services which refuses non-multimedia files, i have created a 100MB unheardable/uncompressable MP3 file which is a horrible mix of two TechnoDance NEXUS albums, this test file as the original song are on CreativeCommons licence.
(5) Some services can use private/public folder *OR* secret URL for individuals or grouped content. Please read help to know methods before registering
Q: Every services i have choosen are closed, i have lost my data forever ! i hate you !
A: You're not lucky, i repeat again and again and again and again lot of these services are unstable or can change its ToS without inform you (and me) grin ! Next time i hope you will pay a professionnal service or your own dedicated server / VPS.
Q: Why tables contains a lot of empty field ?
A: Because included services (add, modifications, deletion) changes every day and can give me a lot of works...
Q: How to do on this list ?
A: Your service must:
- be 100% free or have a free offer,
- be in English (or French ;),
- permit to upload minimum 5 GB per file with 30 days retention after latest download *OR* 100 MB per file with unlimited storage. Professionnal services or WebOS with high QoS are added whatever size it offers),
- display all these states quoted below in your main page, TOS or FAQ and do not claim vague things as e.g "Your files will never expire as long as they're often downloaded" because it is sure for me in all case i immediatly forgot your service because i'm not a forecaster grin !
- not sucks ! force to download adwares or answer to surveys to grab wanted file, can not download my tiny test file after upload, refuse extension file after the end of upload, too restrictive conditions or changed restrictions are given after upload or before download, abandonned website, too busy when we wish to download a file (but not enough for displaying ads), purpose space disk lower than promised, create a (c) 2006 when domain name exist since 2008, answers to my mail more than 2 months, does not works under Linux... and more and more... this list grows every month grin !
Q: I'm not agree with your bad comment about my site ! I will call immediatly my lawyer and blahblahblahblahblah...
A: Are you very furious ? It is generally i have REALLY wasted my time with you...
Of course, nobody is perfect and i can do an technical error... (i think to WATCHOUR monitoring service in one of my FAQ) but it's a pity than too many services forget his customer relations, as quicky reply to comments or bug reports: I can see since November 2008 my
Q: Why you do not speak about GDISK and GMAIL DRIVE here ?
A: Because i do not like workaround method for storage... and also they are on this list some great and free REAL storage services which can give you the same (or even better) QoS than Google ! Google is not perfect, in 2006 he has destroyed emails by error
Q: Can you list services with file history (able to recover old backup data) ?
A: Sorry but i'm not able to test, add, modify and delete too many informations on my tables.
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(19 Decembre 2008):
Adding a lot of URLs,
Add LIVEDRIVE,
2009 will be VERY VERY hard for serious firms on this list, recession recession recession...
(24 Decembre 2008):
Adding a lot of URLs (too many changes sorry),
I begin to delete a few closed or new paid services.
(31 Decembre 2008):
Adding info for backup policies.
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WARNING !!! I receive since a few years a lot of spams so i refuse to answer to any email who have empty subject or containing a short or classic subject as
"hello" or another "please help me"
Keywords: cloud backup on line online free software java
followed servers are only used it to improve the popularity of this webpage ;)
2shared archiv.to badongo easy-share egoshare fast-load.net filefactory letitbit.net load.to netload.in rapidshare.de rapidshare sendspace share-online.biz sharedzilla uploaded.to yourfilehost LIVEDRIVE (will be not free in january 2009)