Hi Try GetDropBox. It creates a watched folder on your hard drive and updates everytime you make a change to it. Very good and 2GB is free.
Simon On 23 Dec 2008, at 14:33, Tom Coradeschi wrote: > > At 12:46 PM -0500 12/22/2008, Dan wrote: >> At 12:09 AM -0500 12/22/2008, Tom Coradeschi wrote: >>> At 02:17 AM -0500 12/08/2008, Dan wrote: >>>> At 7:51 PM -0500 12/7/2008, Tom Coradeschi wrote: >>>>> For 50 bucks a year you can get an account at mozy.com and back >>>>> up as >>>>> much as you want. If your needs are under 2GB, you can get a free >>>>> account and use that! >>>> >>>> As attractive and easy-to-use as these sites are becoming... I'm >>>> sorry... These services just turn me OFF. >>>> >>>> Yea, so they store the data in an encrypted form. But then to >>>> provide you with web-based access they have to have the decrypt key >>>> ON THEIR SERVERS WITH YOUR DATA! hummmmm. And it just goes >>>> down-hill from there. >>> >>> Ummm, not sure what you're getting at here, Dan. Mozy does not (at >>> least not that I am aware of) provide you with "web-based" access. >> >> According to their FAQ they do. > > You are correct, sir! > >>> You have to use their software, and, per the FAQs on their site, if >>> you lose your decrypt key, you are out of luck in terms of getting >>> your data back. >> >> And yet their FAQ also describes getting access to your data even >> after your computer has been destroyed. They even have you call >> Support to have them manually give you access... > > Correct. However, as I stated, if you lose or forget your decrypt key > (assuming that you don't use the default, which is the same as your > login password), you are totally out of luck. > > http://support.mozy.com/docs/en-user-home-mac/faq/concepts/commissue_lost_key_c.html > >> >> It may be that there is some magic secure way of doing all this, that >> they're just not talking about. But ... still, they're an unknown >> 3rd party... > > A pretty well known 3rd party, actually. And, as noted, review the > above FAQ. > -- > > tom coradeschi > [email protected] > > > > --- http://www.simonroyal.co.uk and http://www.nmug.org.uk --- sent from my PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, Mac OSX 10.5 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
