# Best free onine storage and backup
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-onine-storage-and-backup/376282
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [October 13, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-onine-storage-and-backup/376282 "2006-10-13T07:37:43Z")
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### Author:  [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-onine-storage-and-backup/376282/1 "2006-10-13T07:37:43Z")
Okay, I’ve been a bad, bad boy when it comes to backing up my computer but I curently have access to some rather stunning bandwidth. What’s the best way for me to back up around ~15 gb of a “My Documents” folder online, preferably for free?
A lot of “free” online storage spaces have obnoxious upload limits of like 10 mB’s. Obviously I’ll never get it all uploaded that way. What I really need is a good site where I can back up 15 gb or at least 5 gb as a bare minimum. If I cannot download it, that’s fine, as long as I can pay (a semi-reasonable amount) later to download this backup if I ever actually need it.
If you’re actually succeeded in doing this for free, please let me know. Otherwise, make a suggestion.
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### Author:  [@GSV\_Consolation\_of\_Dreams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GSV_Consolation_of_Dreams)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2006, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-free-onine-storage-and-backup/376282/2 "2006-10-13T07:51:26Z")
I can’t think of any that give away 15GB for nothing. But if you’ve got a big hard drive as well as mucho bandwidth, you might think about [allmydata.com](http://allmydata.com)
With their free plan, you allow other people in their network to backup portions of their files to your PC, and vice versa. (encrypted naturally)
It’s a 10:1 deal, so you’d have to make 150 GB available on your hard drive to backup your own 15 GB.