Thanks for dumping a commercial on my blog. I won’t delete it because it is actually on topic.

I am using Mozy for my offline backup. It has all the features that IBackup has except the ability to browse Media files online. IBackup is one these interesting cross-overs between backup and hosting services.

Anyway, Mozy offers UNLIMITED storage for $4.99!!! That’s just insane! Your average family collection will be running close to 50GB of digital media (mp3s, digital photos, and digital video). That would cost $49.95 a month on IBackup.

My only complaint about Mozy is that the restore function is slow and clunky. The interface for selecting your files for restore is pretty slow and then it breaks down and packages your restore into 2GB zip files which you have to download separately (with no option to set the directory tree to relative – it unzips using the absolute directory path).

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Thanx for the response, yes, Mozy would be my best bet at this point. However Foldershare support suggested doing the following. Unfortunately it wouldn’t help me, i need to backup more then 10 units:

‘As of the moment the structure that you want to do is not yet possible
in FolderShare. FolderShare is not design to determine the `Master
computer` and `Slave` computers. What is allows you to do is sync files
across all computers associated to a particular library.

I do have an idea on how you can do the structure that you want but I
have not yet tested this process. Let us say you have four computers
namely: `PC1 (the master computer)`, `PC2 (the 1st slave computer)`,
`PC3 (the 2nd slave computer)` and `PC4 (the 4th slave computer)`. Since
you are allowed to create up to 10 libraries in one FolderShare account,
I was thinking that you create separate libraries for each computer.
Refer to this information below:

`PC2 (the 1st slave computer)` has a library named `Backup PC2`
`PC3 (the 2nd slave computer)` has a library named `Backup PC3`
`PC4 (the 4th slave computer)` has a library named `Backup PC4`

Now, you are going to sync these libraries one by one to `PC1 (the
master computer)` and the destination of these files are on your
`Desktop` having their respective folder names. Here is how to do about
this:

`PC2 (the 1st slave computer)` has a library named `Backup PC2` will
sync the files to `PC1 (the master computer)` on ‘Desktop` using the
same library/ folder name `Backup PC2`. In short, you are now
transferring the files from `PC2 (the 1st slave computer)` to `PC1 (the
master computer)` on the folder named `Backup PC2` on your `Desktop`.

1. Create a folder named `Backup PC2` under `My Documents` on the
computer named`PC2 (the 1st slave computer)`
2. Sign into your FolderShare account on both machines the `PC2 (the 1st
slave computer)` and `PC1 (the master computer)`
3. Click the ‘Sync My Folders’ option on the source computer. (Hint:
`PC2 (the 1st slave computer)`
4. Click ‘Specify folders to sync’.
5. Select the machine where your created folder located. (Hint: `PC2
(the 1st slave computer)`
6. Click the ‘Specify a folder’ option.
7. Locate the folder you want to share or synchronize from the locations
(hint: folder named `Backup PC2` under `My Documents`) that are
displayed.
8. Select the folder you want to synchronized, then click ‘Next’.
9. Select the device on the left pane where you want to synchronize your
created folder. [Hint:`PC1 (the master computer)`]
10. Click the ‘Specify a folder’ option.
11. Click ‘Desktop’ to easily locate the folder that you will
synchronize.
12. Create a folder name putting a dot on the ‘Create a new folder’
option.
13. Enter a folder name `Backup PC2` on the box, then click ‘Next’.
14. Click ‘Finish’.
15. Select the option to ‘Automatically Sync’ before clicking the
‘Complete Setup and Start Syncing’.

Other then the sync option, can Foldershare be used just to back up. So, can my 20 devices backup to one main device with out each device getting one anothers folders?

So far I setup Foldershare on a server ‘main repository’ with 2 satellite devices. However, I can’t find a way to get the 2 devices to just upload their info to the main repository with out copying info across to each device.

A similar solution to yours that I used to apply was to have a startup command run that copies the Outlook master pst to a directory inside the My Documents path – that way the copy gets synchronized, and the worst case is that it’s a day behind.