copy.com ?

[drwex]

Anyone familiar with or use this backup service? I'm considering switching off Dropbox and looking for similar functionality for a personal computer.

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[drwex]

That seems like quite a high level of protection, much more than I have. And yes, you've got a situation where your recovery would be faster. I'd have to get new hardware and do an install on that new hardware. However, the number of scenarios where I can see needing to do that is very small. For example, in the case of a virus I'd tend to assume that my clone had also been infected, so setting back up with that clone would not resolve the problem (in my estimation). A clean install would presumably not have the problem.

The cases where clone hardware wins (I think) are cases of hardware failure. I've certainly seen in-case hardware fail, but I would be concerned that an in-case disk failure was not a primary cause but might be due to something else like a bad power supply that would subsequently ruin any replacement disk. I would not feel comfortable myself doing a 1:1 disk replacement without first understanding risks.

I suspect that you've spent more (in the value of your time) setting up and maintaining this system than I spend paying someone else to do it. That's not to say you're wrong, just that I can see how it makes logical sense (in what I think of as the economists' sense of logic) to pay money for a service like this.