People – you need to backup your Android Phones and iPhones. You’ve probably got backups on your computer but you know you should have more than one backup. With every new phone I get, the camera is better and I find I user my point and shoot less and less.
Mozy makes it dead simple to backup your mobile phone data so really you’ve got no excuse.
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Personal backups on Dreamhost without violoating their TOS. wiki article with details
Before Dreamhost began offering personal backup space countless users were (in violation of Dreamhost’s Terms of Service) simply helping themselves. It was simply too easy for a Dreamhost customers to abuse the generous hard drive space provided buy the discount shared-hosting service.
Rather than continue to fight a growing, unpopular war with its customers, Dreamhost has offered up a sanctioned alternative for personal backups. The caveat is that personal backups may only be accessed from a separate FTP account and they can’t be accessed by a webserver.
This is likely to curb the amount of piracy taking place on Dreamhost’s servers and reduce the number of DMCA requests their office receives. Dreamhost should be commended for making the best of the situation for both their users and the copyright holders involved involved.
I’m running a pair of 500GB LaCie drives in RAID 1 set that got out of sync recently during a hardware failure that resulted in Apple replacing my logic board. I first noticed this because Disk Utility listed my RAID set as ‘degraded’. Simple enough to fix, I thought, and clicked the Rebuild button. Wrong.
Turns out there is a bug in Leopard’s Disk Utility whereby you must use the command line to rebuild degraded RAID sets. If you are getting the infamous ‘Unrecognized Filesystem’ error when you try to rebuild your RAID set follow the instructions below.
Carbonite was launched a little over a year ago as a photo backup service. Since then they have grown considerably, and launching international versions and expanding their services to include full-fledged backup.
Their pricing model @ $49.95 / year for unlimited backup is less expensive that most of their competitors. Carbonite’s software only runs on Windows XP and Windows Vista, so Mac users will need to look to another serivce, like Mozy. For Windows users, Carbonite offers a level of integration that its competitors can’t match. Their software allows you to see right from Windows Explorer (i.e. Desktop, My Documents, etc.) each file or folder’s backup status.
Carbonite’s security model is very similar to the other major players in the market, that is to say, very good. All files are encrypted twice; you may optionally manage your own private key to prevent even Carbonite employees from decrypting your data.
All-in-all Carbonite’s backup service is a very appealing one to Windows users who need simple online backup. The simplicity of their service combined with the depth of its integration into the Windows operating system and low price create a perfect storm for a great number of users. Odds are, one of those users is you.
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