VIDEO: Copy Cloud Storage Review

welcome today we'll be looking at copy it's cloud backup and storage solution from barracuda networks and barracuda networks makes storage and backup for businesses and enterprise and copy is targeted more creative professionals and small to medium sized businesses or startups this review is brought to you by technology advice and the smart advisor tool which lets you compare 50 cloud backup and storage companies in under two minutes now copy works in a few different ways there's the web interface where you can upload and download files and you can see that on screen right here and you can also install a folder on your desktop much like a dropbox and anything you put in that folder will be synced online copy also has applications for ios and android phones and so it's a great option for keeping folders or files in sync across collaborative teams it's a very clean layout as you can see we'll look at the web version there's your default folder right here just going to be everything you upload you can segment that and then there's also another one here which is shared with me and that'll be anything that people send to you will be put in there so the web interface is drag and drop and we'll just use this test dock right here and you can just add it right in there and then once a file is added you can click it and you'll have options to share it you can rename it and you can check out the file activity just changes that you've made who it's been shared with things like that allows you to keep track of your work in a group and there's also a new interface that copy is about to roll out so we'll take a quick look at that and go to try the new beta and this is what it looks like so it's pretty much all the same features you've got your account info up here and your personal files down there just in a little sparse a little more modern interface so the pros of copy it doesn't have any file size limits on individual files so this test doc could have been six gigabytes still would have been able to upload and be shared so that's great for if you're working on video projects or even large audio projects their storage prices are lower than dropbox or box you also get 15 gigabytes for free and you can add up to five users on that if you want to test it out and they have native mobile apps as i mentioned for ios and android the downside of copy is that it's just cloud storage it's not a cloud backup solution so it's not designed for restoring your computer if your hard drive crashed or if you had major fire loss you're only going to be able to get back the things that you individually uploaded into that folder they don't have 24 7 customer support and there's no physical media restores so if you do have a ton of files in there and you lose them off your computer you will have to re-download all of them off your internet connection before you make any decision however on cloud storage i recommend that you go to technologyadvice.com and use the smart advisor tool again that's going to let you compare over 50 cloud backup and storage companies including copy in under two minutes thank you for watching this walkthrough of copy

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