On our servers, for our business, we use Mozy Pro for cloud backup, which has had excellent support when we've called. Their restore has worked flawlessly, and has saved our bacon several times.
We also use Dropbox on our servers for syncing seamlessly between all servers. Again, excellent results - and we're using the free version on the servers, since 2 GB is more than enough. I paid Dropbox for my own machines, and I'm happy. Speaking from experience, the restore feature works well. :) That said, there's nothing stopping anyone from TESTING! Get a new machine, install Dropbox - or Mozy, or Carbonite, or whatever - and see how long it takes to sync. Jebus - with 50 GB, I'd expect it to take some time! Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books "An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible." ---Anonymous On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Theresa Kehoe wrote: > > One more potential downside to online storage? > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/28/carbonite_wrote_own_reviews/ > > I realize the primary focus of the article was the company touting its > own product via biased "reviews" ... > > but it was this paragraph that made me think of Scott and his online > storage: > > <paste> > Bruce Goldsteinberg signed up for the service from Boston-based > Carbonite, and everything went well until a system crash when he found > that the restore process broke. He phoned Carbonite support, taking > time > off work to do so, chose not to pay $20 for a premium response and so, > as he wrote on his blog, was put on hold for an hour. Eventually he > got > help but the restore process took several days, meaning more time off > work, and it finally failed to complete with some files being lost for > good. He got a refund of his subscription. > </paste> > > Not too sure how happy I would be, even if I get my money back, if > files > are lost for good! > > (I know, always looking on the bleak side of things) > > Theresa > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:19 -0600, Scott Granneman wrote: >> It's freaking awesome. >> >> I just paid $100 for 50 GB of storage per year and backed all my >> documents & pix up. Now I simply laugh - ha ha ha! - at the thought >> of >> catastrophic hard drive failure. >> >> Scott >> -- >> R. Scott Granneman >> [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com >> Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications >> My new book: Linux Phrasebook @ http://www.granneman.com/books >> >> "In place of fundamental truths I put fundamental probablilities -- >> provisionally assumed guides by which one lives and thinks." >> ---Nietzsche (1882) >> >> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Mike Bigalke >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> "Or use Dropbox, fer cryin' out loud!" said Scott. >>> >>> This is just what I've been looking for. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> Not if you wanna share a folder! >>>> >>>> How about Zoho? Ever checked them out? They might allow folder >>>> sharing. >>>> >>>> Scott >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> -- >>>> Scott Granneman >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:23 PM, "Robert Citek" >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Kinda defeats the purpose of using Google Docs, no? - Robert >>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Scott Granneman >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Or use Dropbox, fer cryin' out loud! >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
