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By Raymond Ser

April 28, 2009

Over a year ago, whilst working feverishly on an overdue college paper, I spilled a large glass of water over my laptop. Cue panic attack as the MacBook Pro sizzled. I had a backup of that document on my Fujitsu tablet, but it was several days old, and so was the previous SuperDuper backup of the MacBook. Fortunately, the MacBook was fine after several hours by a heater (with the battery out, of course). I got round to looking at online backup services after that. I evaluated SugarSync (pricey), Diino (no Mac client) and settled on Mozy.

After the initial beta hiccups, Mozy’s been working fine on the MacBook, but for my new Mac Pro, I’ve decided to look at other, more fully featured services. I’ve been using Diino, Memopal and SpiderOak concurrently, and I’ll be reviewing them in alphabetical order - first up, Diino.

I disregarded Backblaze (too similar to Mozy), Carbonite (ditto, plus lots of bad press), CrashPlan (you have to buy the desktop client), DropBox (I don’t want to keep all my files in one folder…) and JungleDisk (complex pricing). Diino, Memopal and SpiderOak can be used on multiple computers, with just one licence.

I decided to try Diino because they’ve recently revamped their entire service, stripping out the gratuitous extras and introducing a Mac client. They’re also running an introductory offer of £8.99/$13 for the first year ($49 thereafter), for unlimited backup space and 100 gigabytes of storage, which pretty much sealed the deal.

Background

Diino is a Swedish company, and claims to have over a million users …

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