Irrelevant is my relevant …

I have been looking to back up my files to the internet for a long time, but I have never managed to find a solution that met my needs. Well that is until now.

My needs were:

• Filesystem integration with my OS, syncing client and mapped drive etc
• Large storage capacity
• Secure storage, i want my data to be private
• Secure webpage access to my data
• Share / collaborate for my family and friends on pictures etc
• Mobile phone access to my data
• Be able to back up more than photos (rules out flickr!)
• Not too costly
• Fast internet access

I have found my saviour in a company going by the name HumYo

HumYo meets all of my requirements, ignore the odd name! I have been using this service for a while now and am overly impressed.

They offer a free account to home users which will give you 10 gig online storage but no sync client (IMO the best part). The premium account matches all my criteria, gives you 100 gig online storage and is only £45.99 a year. You can even pay monthly. You can have a free 15 day trial of this account, worth doing to try out the sync client.

The web interface is very tidy and provides a large amount of functionality, it even has a built in thumbnailer for videos and pictures.

HumYo Web Interface

Double Clicking on an image or video in the web interface will bring up a media player allowing you to view albums of photos or even videos. Perfect for showing family and friends without downloading the files. This web interface has been simplified for the mobile phone version but still has the same functionality.

HumYo Media Player

The sync client for the PC makes backing up simple, choose the folders you would like to keep in ’sync’ with the online storage and leave it to it. Whenever you change a file or add a file to one of these folders it will be automatically be updated online and vice versa. You can even throttle the amount of bandwidth the client uses.

The operating system integration goes one step further again by providing a mapped drive to access and upload your files too.

There is a client for Windows x86/x64, and a Mac client.