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Re: Still looking for a backup solution

matthew — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 16:20:44 -0000

Crashplan.com - faster, cheaper, and better. I'm not just saying that - better compression, lower costs, supports on-site, off-site, and online destinations.

Guaranteed restore technology, faster backups, entirely cross platform. Worth checking out.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

Alex Bain — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:19:46 -0000

I've found that JungleDisk is perfect for smaller files, but when they start to get above 1GB, it becomes unreliable, which is a problem for video.

I've had problems with Mozy too, but if I use it exclusively for video, and JungleDisk for everything else, it's a winning combo.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:56:19 -0000

Thanks for the tip.

First I'm gonna back up all my home videos with jungledisk and then
once it's all safe and sound I'll check out memeo.

-bijan

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

Rachel — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:44:58 -0000

There are a lot of ways you can balance how you backup your data. May I suggest that you take a look at my company, Memeo, which has a backup tool that will automatically backup your data to both an online storage site and an external hard drive, USB drive, iPod, FTP site, Network drive, etc. Also, if you are concerned about remembering to backup regularly our software has a unique feature that will instantaneously backup your files without any prompting. So the moment you save/modify/add a file it is backed up to any destination you like.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:58:25 -0000

I am going to try jungledisk

Sounds perfect.

Thanks.

-bijan

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

pfc — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:28:14 -0000

"So i’m searching for a big honking disk in the cloud for my home videos. I was thinking about Amazon S3 but I haven’t found an easy desktop client that makes it simple for our needs."

Look at JungleDisk. 1st-rate Mac support, their Pro product is worth the (paltry amount of) money, and it's constantly being improved.

Edit: whoops, I didn't see the earlier comment. Make that, "ditto".

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:23:19 -0000

Awesome

Thanks.

-bijan

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

Steve Kane — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:29:24 -0000

Yes. And yes.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:33:12 -0000

steve,

does it do backups to S3 automatically? Does it do incremental backups ? thanks.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:20:17 -0000

Thanks. I will check it out.

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

brianberliner — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:53:00 -0000

Bijan,

Take a look at Syncplicity - http://www.syncplicity.com - coming out of Beta shortly.

-Brian

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

Steve Kane — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:36:34 -0000

Steve Goldstein turned me on to JungleDisk. Combined with S3, works well enough

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

bijan — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:39:21 -0000

It seems to time out in my case. It just fails to do a complete backup.

-bijan

Re: Still looking for a backup solution

escuccim — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:37:45 -0000

What kind of problems did you have with Mozy? I was thinking about trying it for my home network.