Upline - unlimited online backup service from HP

[Defcon]

HP has launched a new backup service called Upline (www.upline.com) with unlimited storage for $5/month. It looks very attractive for me as a home user because of following reasons :-

- its from HP, not some startup, not likely to go down
- its not free, so I know they have a business plan. Most free services become paid once they hook the users
- unlimited storage sounds good :)

Things I'm not sure about -

- do they really mean unlimited? What happens when I upload 500gb of data (not that my crappy Comcast upload speeds will allow it)
- whats to prevent someone from stealing my data once its online. This is a concern I have with all online backups - the only way to be sure is to encrypt before uploading, but then I can't just upload existing files.
- will they have some limit on bandwidth for the home accounts?

Anyway it looks quite interesting and I will be watching it closely.

[Peter2150]

I agree - looks very interesting indeed.

[Coolio10]

Looks like a good deal. The client looks nice.

Here is a review i dug up

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080408-first-look-hp-upline-a-solid-online-storage-backup-client.html

Sounds good from that review.

Can even host video/images publicly :thumb: so you could use it to replace imageshack.

[ccsito]

Sounds interesting. And I will be getting a new HP laptop soon. However, corporate is too cheap to allow any additional options to the system. :dry:

[Defcon]

I signed up for Limited (1GB). The Upline client refuses to run under Vista SP1 with an error "Upline.exe is not a valid Win32 application" !!

I was able to upload thru the web interface at quite low speeds (~60KBps) even at my fast work connection.

I am going to try at home but if I can't even run their application thats not a good sign!

[Peter2150]

I saw the need for the software and that was a turnoff. I currently use Iomega's Istorage, and it works great, with no software.

[lucas1985]

-{ Quote: "- its from HP, not some startup, not likely to go down" }-
;D ;D
-{ Quote: "HP Upline hosted storage has been suspended for five days (and counting) allegedly due to some potentially disastrous bugs. Already, competing services are attempting to cash in." }-
-{ Quote: "HP has not officially cited the reason for the service's suspension, but in a comment to TechCrunch last Friday, member Ridz may have proven to have experienced Upline's fatal flaw: His application was connecting him to another member's account." }-
-{ Quote: "Today, in an obvious attempt to capitalize on the disgust from Upline's early adopters, a Sponsored Link on a Google search of "HP Upline" yields a site with the tag line "Is Upline jerking you around?" linking to a company called Mozy (a subsidiary of storage giant EMC) offering a similar service." }-
Article (http://www.betanews.com/article/Bringing_down_the_cloud_HPs_Upline_down_for_a_third_of_its_life/1208893272)

[Huupi]

you never know who get the hands on this uploaded stuff.