OT online back up

"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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On Mon, 05 May 2008 14:53:07 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

the idea that ALL his stuff could get stolen is why I wondered about
online
storage ...

Carbonite, Larry. Accessable wherever you are. Complete electronic
backup.




That does look good, Dave ..... though I admit to a bit of worry about ANY
program that " works quietly and continuously in the background" I've
encountered a few making a similar claim that sometimes got very noisy and
obnoxious

On Mon, 05 May 2008 15:51:54 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:


"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
.. .
On Mon, 05 May 2008 14:53:07 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

the idea that ALL his stuff could get stolen is why I wondered about
online
storage ...

Carbonite, Larry. Accessable wherever you are. Complete electronic
backup.




That does look good, Dave ..... though I admit to a bit of worry about ANY
program that " works quietly and continuously in the background" I've
encountered a few making a similar claim that sometimes got very noisy and
obnoxious

If this is a full backup scheme/system/service, it has a big plus and a
big minus - if something goes big-time wrong, you got everything, but if
one important file gets whacked, you might HAVE to get everything...and
I'd offer that if it works "continuously," the connection must be
"continuous" for a least-resources-possible operation (and if the
connection isn't continuous, having the BU data stored in a local cache
ain't gonna help a whole hell of a lot in the event of theft or HW
failure...).

HTH,
R

On May 5, 9:51 am, "Larry L" wrote:

That does look good, Dave ..... though I admit to a bit of worry about ANY
program that " works quietly and continuously in the background" I've
encountered a few making a similar claim that sometimes got very noisy and
obnoxious

Carbonite looks very nice. I may recommend it to family and friends. I
do, however, resonate with some of Larry's hesitations. I'm a geek and
I like to set up and control my technical environment.

Larry, you set up an FTP server, so you must be technically capable.
Did you do this on Unix? If so, a very nice alternative solution would
be to set up a Subversion server. This would not only back up your
son's file's but also keep a change history in case he wants to access
older versions. And there are some nice Windows clients for Subversion
available.

http://subversion.tigris.org/

This may be a bit more technical than you or your son want to get, but
it's a nice system. That said, FTP is tried and true, nothing wrong
with it.

Jon.

One of the nice things about Apple's OS X operating system is an
automatic incremental backup utility called Time Machine. When your
computer is connected to an external drive it automatically backs up
everything on whatever schedule you want, and you can retrieve files
from whatever backup date you want. The backup doesn't take long because
it's incremental -- saving only the recent changes. The user interface
is pretty cool, too. Unix has had incremental backup for ages, and Time
Machine may built on top of that utility because OS X has Unix under the
hood.

BTW, I just posted this to annoy Jon. :-)

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

On May 5, 10:28 am, rw wrote:

BTW, I just posted this to annoy Jon. :-)

Gee thanks...now the rest of my day is ruined...

Jon.
PS: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2...n_homedir.html