Comments on: Getting serious about backing up (Part II) http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/ Great teaching and learning with technology Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:22:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim Wilson http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-46452 Tim Wilson Wed, 14 May 2008 16:27:33 +0000 http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/#comment-46452 Crashplan sounds cool. My neighbor and I have been tempted to run some Cat5 between our houses to facilitate some "WAN" backups, but we haven't gotten around to it yet. Joel, if you're reading this let me know when you've got that conduit in the ground. :-) Crashplan sounds cool. My neighbor and I have been tempted to run some Cat5 between our houses to facilitate some “WAN” backups, but we haven’t gotten around to it yet. Joel, if you’re reading this let me know when you’ve got that conduit in the ground. :-)

]]> By: Nathaniel Lindley http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-46451 Nathaniel Lindley Wed, 14 May 2008 15:21:29 +0000 http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/#comment-46451 I've added one more layer to my backup at home. I use TimeMachine with an External FW for everything on the computer. Then I use Jungle Disk more for a remote storage, to transfer between computers. I could use it to back up Pictures, Music and Movies, but that monthly cost could add up-even at Amazon's low prices. My current 3rd strategy is to use CrashPlan. This is a $20 app that you put on the computer you want to backup. Then find another computer at your house as a destination (for free) to backup to. Pick the folders you want backedup and it runs in the background. Here is the nice part for the house-burned-down scenario. Get a friend to install CrashPlan on one of his computers and allocate you some space (or provide your own external storage) and it will back up over the internet to their house. There is no cost to be a CrashPlan destination, and you can backup to as many destinations as you want. Couple great features about CrashPlan: • all the data is encrypted from the moment it leaves your computer • It updates itself as they add features and fix bugs • you can customize what gets backed up when and where • it does all the network negotiation and such between your computer and the destiation • their customer service has been really good so far. (Local MPLS company) • you don't pay for storage or bandwidth (except your own hard drive cost) Right now I only have paid for it to backup one machine. My friend has two computers backing up to me. CrashPlan runs on my Mac but the critical Quicken files on my PC just save to a shared folder on the Mac and that gets backed up from there. I have control over the restore process, too. One thing that might be a drawback is that if Comcast actually starts putting a limit on your bandwidth usage you might need to change your habits. That was much more than I expeceted but I have been really pleased with it so far. I’ve added one more layer to my backup at home. I use TimeMachine with an External FW for everything on the computer. Then I use Jungle Disk more for a remote storage, to transfer between computers. I could use it to back up Pictures, Music and Movies, but that monthly cost could add up-even at Amazon’s low prices.
My current 3rd strategy is to use CrashPlan. This is a $20 app that you put on the computer you want to backup. Then find another computer at your house as a destination (for free) to backup to. Pick the folders you want backedup and it runs in the background. Here is the nice part for the house-burned-down scenario. Get a friend to install CrashPlan on one of his computers and allocate you some space (or provide your own external storage) and it will back up over the internet to their house. There is no cost to be a CrashPlan destination, and you can backup to as many destinations as you want. Couple great features about CrashPlan:
• all the data is encrypted from the moment it leaves your computer
• It updates itself as they add features and fix bugs
• you can customize what gets backed up when and where
• it does all the network negotiation and such between your computer and the destiation
• their customer service has been really good so far. (Local MPLS company)
• you don’t pay for storage or bandwidth (except your own hard drive cost)

Right now I only have paid for it to backup one machine. My friend has two computers backing up to me. CrashPlan runs on my Mac but the critical Quicken files on my PC just save to a shared folder on the Mac and that gets backed up from there. I have control over the restore process, too. One thing that might be a drawback is that if Comcast actually starts putting a limit on your bandwidth usage you might need to change your habits.

That was much more than I expeceted but I have been really pleased with it so far.

]]> By: Tomasz Stasiuk http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-46395 Tomasz Stasiuk Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:57:15 +0000 http://technosavvy.org/2008/03/25/getting-serious-about-backing-up-part-ii/#comment-46395 That is pretty much the same strategy I use: nightly SuperDuper! imaging + hourly backups of critical files to S3. The only difference is I also added an external HD at the office for TimeMachine. So TM at office, hourly s3 with versioning in the cloud, and nightly images. I may add another hd for SuperDuper! imaging at the office, just to have two full, bootable, images in two separate locations. But... that may be overkill for most people. :) That is pretty much the same strategy I use: nightly SuperDuper! imaging + hourly backups of critical files to S3.

The only difference is I also added an external HD at the office for TimeMachine. So TM at office, hourly s3 with versioning in the cloud, and nightly images.

I may add another hd for SuperDuper! imaging at the office, just to have two full, bootable, images in two separate locations. But… that may be overkill for most people. :)

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