Online backup speed comparison
| online backup service | version | backup all | restore all | blank recovery | QFA*B | total | powered by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crashplan.nl | 2009.11.05 | 33 min. | 5 min. | 4 min. | 12 sec. | 54 | crashplanpro |
| backgroundbackup.ca | 2008.12.22 | 41 min. | 18 min. | 14 min. | 44 sec. | 117 | crashplanpro |
| vembu.com | 2.5.1.0 | 42 min. | 15 min. | 16 min. | 49 sec. | 122 | vembu storegrid professional |
| backupgarantie.nl | 4.7 sp1 | 55 min. | 31 min.*N | 34 min.*N | 4 sec. | 124 | iaso |
| backupsonline.nl | 5.2.6.5 | 42 min. | 43 min. | 31 min. | 15 sec. | 131 | ahsay |
| crashplan central updated | 2010.03.08 | 58 min. | 19 min. | 13 min. | 45 sec. | 135 | crashplan free |
| perfectbackup.nl | 5.2.7.0 | 42 min. | 25 min. | 59 min. | 17 sec. | 144 | ahsay |
| mozy.com (home) | 1.14.1.6 | 99 min. | 17 min. | 19 min. | 20 sec. | 155 | mozy, an emc company |
| websafe.de | 5.5.1.0 | 51 min. | 36 min. | 37 min. | 35 sec. | 159 | ahsay |
| kpn backup online | 4.7 sp1 | 95 min. | 33 min.*O | 34 min.*P | 3 sec. | 165 | iaso |
| steadybackup.de | 5.2.6.2 | 59 min. | 45 min. | 67 min.*Z | 25 sec. | 196 | ahsay, verio, ntt |
| dob.nl | 5.2.4.0 | 56 min. | 55 min. | 51 min. | 56 sec. | 218 | ahsay |
| wuala.com | 219 | 93 min. | 1 min.*AB | 45 min.*AA | 79 sec.*AC | 218 | lacie |
| itenos.de | 5.5.3.0 | 74 min. | 58 min. | 49 min | 14 sec. | 225 | ahsay |
| backup-connect.nl | 5.2.6.0 | 76 min. | 41 min. | 63 min. | 50 sec. | 230 | ahsay |
| dogado.de | 5.5.1.0 | 62 min. | 58 min. | 56 min. | 71 sec. | 247 | ahsay |
| backupfactory.nl | 5.2.6.0 | 83 min. | 54 min. | 44 min. | 86 sec. | 267 | ahsay |
| idrive.com | 3.0.3 | 64 min. | 29 min. | 33 min. | 167 sec. | 293 | |
| spideroak.com | 3.0.9200 | 105 min. | 38 min. | 49 min. | 228 sec.*AC | 420 | spideroak |
| back2web.de | v4: 690 | 170 min. | 88 min. | 101 min.*X | 105 sec. | 464 | onbackup.de |
| icebackup.nl | 3.12.4.2 | 117 min. | 314 min.*H | 168 min.*I | 34 sec. | 633 | iaso |
| arvato.de | 7.1.18.0 | 235 min. | 191 min. | 172 min. | 37 sec. | 635 | novastor novanet-web |
| jamby.com | 3.12.4.2 | 111 min. | 269 min.*J | 248 min.*J | 33 sec. | 661 | backupagent (.com) |
| carbonite-backup.nl*A | 3.0.220 | 133 min. | 360 min.*E | 168 min. | 10 sec. | 671 | carbonite |
| jungledisk.com | 2.10a | 361 min. | 167 min. | 137 min. | 19 sec. | 684 | aws test costs € 0.97*C |
| backblaze.com*R | 1.0.5.233 | 353 min. | 116 min. | 116 min. | 180 sec. | 765 | backblaze |
| backup.com | 1.2.5640 | 75 min. | 43 min. | 46 min. | 700 sec | 864 | |
| steekup.com | 4.7.3.5413 | 66 min. | 503 min.*V | 512 min. | 9 sec. | 1090 | amatis |
| argeweb.nl | 3.12.3.1 | 162 min. | 689 min.*K | 219 min.*L | 162 sec. | 1232 | backupagent (.com) |
| bestandig.nl | 1.5.9 | 262 min. | 360 min.*F | 360 min.*F | 900 sec.*G | 1882 | resembles mozy |
| mkbackup.nl | 5.2.7.0 | 269 min.*Q | *Q | *Q | *Q | - | ahsay |
| gigabank.de | 2.0.2723.0 | 832 min. | - | fast lta | |||
| diino.com | 5.1.1.11 | > 15 hrs*Y | - | ||||
| memopal.com | 1.0.0.1975 | > 15 hours | - | memopal | |||
| angelbackup.com | 3.2.0.0 | -*W | - | - | - | - | |
| backup24.eu*M | 8.2.0.2809 | -*M | - | - | - | - | iron mountain |
| mindtimebackup.nl | 5.2.6.0 | -*D | - | - | - | - | ahsay |
| delldatasafe.co.uk | 1.1.0.7124 | -*S | - | - | - | - | dell |
| yuntaa.com | 3.0.0.0 | -*T | - | - | - | - | |
| humyo.com | 2.0.5.0 | -*U | - | - | - | - | uk, de, fr |
These tests are performed on a Windows Media Center Edition 2005 operating system, with service pack 3. This operating system runs in a Parallels Desktop virtual environment, with 512MB RAM allocated. The virtual environment in its turn runs on a MacbookPro (3,1) with 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 250 GB OCZ Vertex (rev. 1.3) SSD. Tested with a file set of 387 megabytes, on a 20 (down) / 1 (up) megabit ADSL connection.
*A) .iso and .mp3 files are excluded by default by carbonite, additional actions are needed to backup these file types; and also appears that carbonite limits the upload bandwidth to 2GB per day and that carbonite has got a bandwith limit after 50GB.
*B) the qfa test measures the time required for a 26.0 megabyte file to restore, on a system where all files have already been restored once
*C) amazon s3 storage cost for this 1 month test is divided in three parts:
(1) Traffic = 6.3% [DataTransfer-In-Bytes PutObject, DataTransfer-Out-Bytes ReadLocation ListBucket ListAllMyBuckets HeadObject GetObject] (2) Requests = 93.2% [Requests-Tier1 PutObject ListBucket ListAllMyBuckets CreateBucket, Requests-Tier2 GetObject ReadLocation HeadObject] and (3) Storage = 0.5% [StandardStorage TimedStorage-ByteHrs].
*D) the test quotum of mindtime measures 250 MB which is too small to make a full backup
*E) carbonite restore was aborted after 6 hours, result: only 1 file was restored by carbonite
*F) the restore operation at bestandig was aborted after 6 hours, result: all files with the exception of 4 pieces were restored
*G) bestandig qfa test was aborted prematurely because of the unacceptably long restore time: more than 15 minutes, with an estimate of 4 hours in total
*H) restore through icebackup failed to recover from 2 files, according to report, however, the same report states that 22,934 were recovered (84%)
*I) failed to restore 1 file according to report, however, the same report states that 13,553 were recovered (50%)
*J) to restore with jamby failed in 3 files
*K) software says that 0 files are skipped, nevertheless, only 19,063 of the 27,174 files are restored
*L) argeweb software says that 1 file is skipped, nevertheless were 6269 of the 27,174 files are restored (23%)
*M) the backup24 iron mountain connected backup software does not install: service agent service failed to start
*N) the backupgarantie software itself displays a 50% shorter recovery time; at a second attempt the application crashes; and third attempt gave a recovery of 30 minutes while the software itself reflects that 50% less recovery time is needed
*O) the kpn backup online software itself provides a shorter recovery time, from 19 minutes; at a second attempt the application crashes; at the third attempt the kpn backup online software again shows a shorter recovery time than the restore in reality takes
*P) the kpn backup online software itself indicates a shorter recovery time of 18 minutes, in practice it took longer
*Q) de met mkbackup gemaakte backup was onvolledig, daarna was de backup server onbereikbaar zodat herstellen niet getest kon worden
*R) backblaze maximum file size is 4 gigabytes, it is difficult to make an own file selection with blazeback software, in fact you can only exclude folders, volumes and extensions, extension vmc,vhd,vo1,vo2,vsv,vud,vmdk,vmsn,vmsd,hdd,vdi,vmwarevm,nvram,vmx,vmem,iso are always excluded; restore is only possible via web interface that prepares a zip-file or the physical paid shipping option; restore is unsafe because the web interface requires entry of your "private key", now that key is no longer private...
*S) at dell datasafe it is not possible to create an account, even after 5 attempts with different user name (ranging from 3 characters to complete e-mail e-mail address), the software reported: "Username already exists"
*T) the yuntaa managerreports for several hours (yuntaa.com is online and no failures are reported) every time "Please wait, Yuntaa manager is busy retrieving settings from the server', and after a few seconds 'No server connection'
*U) humyo is unsuitable as online backup: the software requires a drive letter mapping. This will give a future virus direct access to the backup files. That is an undesirable situation. In addition, the software can not regularly connect to the server and synchronization problems occur.
*V)fter the first backup completion, it is not possible to restore, the software reports that there is a backup running; after a reboot of the computer data can be restored.
*W) the system freezes after displaying a dialog with this text: error loading angel backup monitor: unexpected error: no error message available, result code: e_unexpected(0x8000ffff). getparameter:runsettings:compactdbdate
*X) the restore at back2web had to be started twice because of this error message: Sending data to the network: an establish connection was being closed by the remote host.: Sys-RC=10054, I/O Error occured.: SSL-RC=5; Sending data fails: Sending data fails.
*Y) after an initial fast start, diino backup speed dropped to almost zero (1kbps)
*Z) Error at 'Transferring list of secured files...': 'XML document structures must start and end within the same entity. Last...'
*AA) the Wuala client showed for 18 times a 'download failed' popup error message. The result was that no single file larger than 328KB could be restored; wuala.exe consumed all CPU resources; therefore it was necessary to apply a forced stop. After contact with the helpdesk we were told that, when used behind a firewall, a box called 'Compatibility mode' needed to be checked. No sooner said than done, and again tested.
*AC) measured after emptying the local cache
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