Secure Backup & Share: sharing your memories and keeping them safe
Backing up your important files is one of those things that most people know they should do, and yet never get around to doing (just like flossing!). Even if you have a good backup routine in place, chances are you’re storing your backups in the same physical location as your computer which isn’t ideal.
Backup devices, like an external hard drive, can be lost, stolen or damaged in a fire and if you have your backup device in a safe-deposit box, you probably aren’t updating it regularly. That’s where Secure Backup & Share comes in.
Secure Backup & Share automatically backs up files on your computer to an offsite location (i.e. somewhere other than your house) so you can rest assured your files are safe. Also, you can access your files (think wedding and vacation photos or a video from your child’s soccer game) remotely, and share them with your friends and family on a variety of devices (including mobile devices).
High-speed Internet customers automatically receive the Standard 2GB Storage Plan with their subscription. Two gigs is enough storage to back up about 500 music files or 10,000 documents (for the sake of this example we’ve assumed that an average music file is about 4MB and an average document runs about 200 KB).
If 2 GB isn’t enough we have a couple different plans that you can sign up for by visiting the Secure Backup & Share Web site:
- The Preferred 50 GB storage plan for $4.99 monthly or $49.99 annually
- Premier 200 GB Storage Plan for $9.99 monthly or $99.99 annually
Check out the Secure Backup & Share Web site for more information.
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No Linux support? And how about not counting the data used by this service towards my monthly cap?
Not sure that comcast thought this all the way through ...
This offering is silly. I can can get the same 2GB for free from Dropbox, and I can access my files from ANY web browser regardless of OS. Comcast's offering doesn't work on Mac and probably Linux. Way to go. Where's my download cap monitor? Is this why I am paying 14% more for my monthly service? Take it back and drop my price.
this is great! i didn't know that we offer this service at all. thanks!!!
There's a problem with this offering. It doesn't make sense for me to do this.
Comcast gives me a 250GB cap each month. If I have 40 gig of personal files to back up once a week, that takes 160 gig. (Even more if I have to download some it to restore a file or directory). So right off the bat, I have blown 64% of my 250gb cap on backups.
That's a big disincentive. I'll buy a second (external) hard drive. That won't cost me any bandwidth at all.