For backup I use McAfee Online Backup - although it's probably neither the cheapest nor the best. It works for me though and it runs invisibly.
I also use synchronization services; which offer some backup features (your data is never in any one place). I used to use Live Mesh beta, but had some problems where it would get confused with large numbers of files, and I would sometimes lose the latest versions. So it wasn't much good for code files unless I zipped them into a single file - and then it coped better. The advantage was with it that you can turn any of your windows folders into a synchronized folder, unlike Dropbox where there is just one synchronized folder tree. Form my understanding Live Mesh beta has been replaced with Windows Live Mesh - but since it dropped Windows XP support (my work machine is still XP), so I gave it the flick. These days I'm using Dropbox - where there's more copying involved (due to having only one synchronized folder tree), but I've written scripts to copy my work into the Dropbox folder at the end of the day. Sometimes I forget to run it though :-/ Dropbox is free for up to 2GB of data - and has some rudimentary versioning. It is my understanding it's simply a SVN server, and all Dropbox is, is a SVN client. It's been reliable at least. Dropbox is also in the news a lot as it became apparent that their employees have access to your data (even though they initially denied it). Option number 3, is it is fairly trivial to host your own SVN server over the internet, so long as you have a provider that can host it. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Stephen Price <[email protected]>wrote: > For you, its the space. I guess for them, its being able to target > different clients. Pay for what you need or pay for what you can > afford. I went for the top plan because of the more machines. > > Then again I tend to buy lots of software tools. Some people go out > and spend thousands on their hardware and then refuse to spend a > single cent on software (usually because they want something for > nothing, which in the software world can sometimes be found). I don't > get that. I look at how long it would have taken me to write the > software (assuming I even have the skills for what the software does) > and then see the measly $200 or whatever as being a bargin. > Time is more valuable to me than money. I have less time than money > and I seem to spend all my time converting it into money. :) > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stephen, Crashplan looked great until I noticed they have some kind of > > per-machine restriction on all but the top plan. This make no sense, as > if I > > buy the space, then I expect to be able to use from absa-bloody-lutely > > anywhere, I mean, it's the space that counts, not where it comes from -- > > Greg > > > > >
