DB asks for me to change my pw when I go to use their web features. This
seems a bit nuts to me .. why not just have a good one to begin with? As
long as its specific to DB, it seems that a 15 char unique pw should be
just fine.
But even odder, this is a distributed pw .. I've got three
A bit OT but ... Hmm.. Just got thinking about about Amazon being used by
Dropbox and their relative pricing.
Amazon charges $.095/GB/Month for its storage. That's $9.50/Mo or
$114.00/Year for 100GB.
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
100GB is the first tier of paid Dropbox which goes for
Aq looks great, esp. the retention of metadata (file dates). If only it
supported Windows.
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote:
A bit OT but ... Hmm.. Just got thinking about about Amazon being used by
Dropbox and their relative pricing.
Amazon charges
I love google drive for somestuff- It's great if you can use it from the
same computer or have one that does java quickly
when uploading at school though for some reason it was dog slow-same for
downloading-and that stuff was-illustrator files- or pictures--with those
short comings acounted for
I figured out the google drive vs g+ plan. It turns out they are
integrated, a good thing I think. I was concerned it was yet another half
baked stunt but this seems pretty well managed.
-- Owen
torage plan pricing
Learn about your options for purchasing more storage for Google Drive,
I'll put in my two cents.
All the files I care about are on a Mac, so I use Arq, which backs up to
Amazon's S3 and Glacier services. There are two levels of S3 service which vary
in their redundancy. The higher level (S3 standard storage) claims:
Designed for 99.9% durability and 99.99%
Arq sounds great, thanks for the pointer. Looks like a winner.
Kinda interesting dropbox uses amazon too.
-- Owen
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Barry MacKichan
barry.mackic...@mackichan.com wrote:
I'll put in my two cents.
All the files I care about are on a Mac, so I use Arq,
I'd like to find a cloud service for images - problem is, I'd got
approximately 300GB of images going back to 2001. Some duplication, but
mostly lots of RAW files. Dropbox wants $500/year. I need a more affordable
solution Any ideas?
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Arlo Barnes
Google+ has free unlimited storage of images but only at 2048 px. You can
pay for 5GB of images at greater resolution. Android g+ has an automatic
picture upload feature.
--Doug
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo msu...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to find a cloud service for images -
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Douglas Roberts d...@parrot-farm.netwrote:
Google+ has free unlimited storage of images but only at 2048 px. You can
pay for 5GB of images at greater resolution. Android g+ has an automatic
picture upload feature.
--Doug
While looking into dropbox
I would say 300GB still seems to be a lot of data for the cloud. S3 quotes
28.50 a month just for the storage with ~5 bucks a month if you do around 50GB
up and 50 GB down per month which is probably actually more than you are likely
to be doing.
Their glacier product which does not have the
My solution is external hard drives:
1. one-time purchase cost
2. relatively inexpensive
3. not dependent upon the cloud servers. I am not willing to chance a
1-in-a-100-years failure..
Joe
On 1/15/13 9:14 AM, Mark Suazo wrote:
I'd like to find a cloud service for images - problem is, I'd
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on multiple
drives and should also be located in more than one location so a fire or theft
doesn't lead to losing everything.
Not that I follow this in practice but in theory…
--joshua
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Joseph
Owen:
I use to varying degree most of the services; I'm always testing them
because I often talk about storage alternatives in workshops. Dropbox is
easy to use, but be sure to pay the extra $30 or $40 to get its back up
service. I've found that if I share a folder with someone, and at some
I used to keep backups of my backups. Now I just keep backups. Cheap 3 TB
usb drive + nightly rsync.
--Doug
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Joshua Thorp jth...@redfish.com wrote:
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on
multiple drives and should also be
3 copies of everything. at least 1 in a safety deposit box. also, i
expect I will have to upgrade the hard drives at some point as the
technology changes.
- Joe
On 1/15/13 10:25 AM, Joshua Thorp wrote:
Yeah I agree with this, but hard drives do fail so data should be on
multiple drives
Good info, thanks. Yeah, I'm starting to get serious about paying Dropbox
or one of the others.
One downside of the more automatic systems (I think) is that you don't get
a shell that you can run backup scripts on. Why would I want to backup
Dropbox? Well, the speed of the backbone network is
OK, just lost another local external drive. Got a RAID box finally on
order, BUT
.. I'd like to also use the cloud.
So I'm thinking: any of us using Dropbox big time .. i.e. backing up a
large part of their digital ecosystem .. w/ the for-pay subscriptions? If
so, how's it working out?
My
I got Dropbox mainly for collaboration (sharing datasets and R files), and
now I use it as the central storage location for all my photos - they go
straight from the card (which is then cleared to make room) to Dropbox
through it's automatic transfer function. I have had no problems, although
the
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I've started to use dropbox and it seems a real winner! I really like the way
it combines a remote disk along with local sync'ed folders.
Would anyone who doesn't have a dropbox account yet be willing to sign up as a
referral?
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals
If you want to start an
Nice timing, Owen. I signed up three days ago.
--Doug
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I've started to use dropbox and it seems a real winner! I really like the
way it combines a remote disk along with local sync'ed folders.
Would anyone who doesn't
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Russ,
I just rummaged around
Owen - I work interchangeably on my office and home computers and I use
Dropbox to keep particular parts of my setup synced between the two
machines. In particular:
1. my to-do lists, engineer's notebook, big file o' passwords (gpg-ed, of
course) and simple Python utilities all go into
Good info! gpg is new to me, so a question or two:
- Do you use the pay Dropbox service? .. or just the free one?
- Is gpg (http://www.gnupg.org/) easy to administer? Does it replace SSH key
pairs?
- Is gpg available fairly universally .. iPhone/Android, Mac/Win/Linux .. web
hosting services?
I just looked up DropBox. Why is it better than other online file storage
systems? For example, Google sites includes the means to store files, up to
10GB for free. (Dropbox includes only 2GB for free.) Windows Live SkyDrive
includes 25GB free. (I think it syncs automatically if you have
For me, the automatic sync is the big attraction. It's probably no better
than any other online storage system if storage is all you want from it, but
the ease of sync (and the fact that I can selectively share these synced
folders with non-Dropbox users) is a big plus.
-- R
P.S. Dropbox keeps
Owen -
- I use the paid version, because I've got tons of PDFs.
- Administering gpg can be a little opaque but there's some good guides
out there (cheat sheet
herehttp://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/gpg-cs.html;
original
reference documentation—surprisingly
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10GB for free. (Dropbox includes only 2GB for free.) Windows Live SkyDrive
includes
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I just rummaged around on SkyDrive help pages and could find no sign that it
sync-ed automatically. Any leads?
Nick
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I'm going to Italy for a month and would like to use the Dropbox storage system
.. there's an iPad/iPhone app that makes it easy to use. I'm leaving my laptop
at home.
Is it a good service? Any known problems/lock-ins?
Generally I'd just mount a remote volume but iPad/iPhone don't have a
I think its fabulous! Been using for about 12 months.
Only issue I've found is that if you put a subversion repository in it you
get contention issues...but that's my own fault for wanting to do something
reckless.
Cheers,
Saul
On 14 September 2010 09:40, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net
Not yet - it looks intriguing, but the
Dropbox reserves the right, at any time, to change or impose fees for
access to and use of the Site, Content, Files and/or Services.
language in their ToS https://www.getdropbox.com/terms#pricing is somewhat
disconcerting...
Mark
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at
I finally downloaded and started to play with it. I was a bit
discouraged with its commercialism .. it is a service after all, and
the install crashed my computer! So in un-installed it and started
looking at more use of some of my favorite equivalent programs:
1 - Mac has a drop box
I have 3 machines hooked up to dropbox - Linux and windows. And have
had no problems, but only very light usage.
If they do start charging then would revert to Webdav.
Regards,
Saul
On 11/28/08, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I finally downloaded and started to play with it. I was a
Has anyone tried Dropbox:
http://www.getdropbox.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_(storage_provider)
It looks interesting but I wonder how well it all works. Backup is
becoming more interesting nowadays with things like the Apple Time-
Machine and the terabyte Time-Capsule.
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