At 12:29 PM 9/29/2008, you wrote:
As a guy who understands ftp and hand codes his website, I can tell you that
JungleDisk + Amazon S3 is just damn easy for everyone, not just users.
what does that cost?
First off, it's plenty secure. Everything can be done over SSL. And you
set the password on your end and so all Amazon sees is random noise being
uploaded and the password is never stores on their site (only clientside).
Second, it's very good at only uploading the changes so you don't have to do
the full 10GB or whatever every time
Third, you schedule it to do the backup easily and automatically. And you
can do multiple jobs with multiple sets of files and schedules.
Fourth, it can do revision control for the files you backup with you
controlling which file sizes are included and how many old copies to keep.
Fifth, they have clients for Windows, Mac and Linux and USB keys which
seamlessly integrates the S3 drive through WebDav to your file explorer
allowing you to browse it and copy/delete files. So you can have access to
all your files from whatever computer you are using with web access.
Awesome for travelling.
Need I go on?
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Brian
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Winterlight
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> I can understand why this works for the general public who doesn't
> understand domains, ftp etc. But
> why is that a better deal for you then just buying a domain name from
> Goddady for 7-10 bucks a year and then having a free 10GB website that you
> can ftp into, and then upload your backup in an encrypted zip file ?
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> At 11:53 AM 9/29/2008, you wrote:
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>> I use JungleDisk and Amazon S3 for my personal offsite backup. I know
>> it's
>> not completely bulletproof, but for a couple bucks a month it's well worth
>> it for the 10 GB of data I really, really care about.
>>
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>> Brian
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>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 2:50 PM, maccrawj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> > 1TB Seagate 7200.11 SATA-300 drive $130
>> > USB2/eSATA Icydock MB559US-1SMB enclosure $45 after MIR
>> > Peace of mind knowing key data is backed up offline, priceless!
>> >
>> > =)
>> >
>> >
>> > DHSinclair wrote:
>> >
>> >> Thank you Greg. Kind of terse, but I do fully comprehend your points.
>> So
>> >> far, my data loss will be any/all digital pixs I took post 03/07 and
>> some
>> >> archived dot-pdf files that support my home care equipment. Suspect
>> that I
>> >> can probably find most of this again.
>> >>
>> >> I never attempted to use the RAID of the server as a substitute for
>> proper
>> >> backup policy. It just turned out the my server did have the largest
>> >> available free space (23GB). OK, shame on me. I do try to "backup" to
>> >> available space wherever available on my LAN clients until I can get a
>> NAS
>> >> operational.
>> >>
>> > <snip>
>> >
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