News Item: : Online Backup from Spideroak
(Category: Misc)
Posted by jps
Monday 04 May 2009 - 12:41:50
While researching online backup solutions I've stumbled across a winner... SpiderOak. The tipping point for me was the 2G of free storage with the ability to pay for more if you need more. I can back up my most critical data now for free. Did you catch the free part?
Other features I liked a lot include:
You can get started with Spideroak at www.spideroak.com.
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(Category: Misc)
Posted by jps
Monday 04 May 2009 - 12:41:50
While researching online backup solutions I've stumbled across a winner... SpiderOak. The tipping point for me was the 2G of free storage with the ability to pay for more if you need more. I can back up my most critical data now for free. Did you catch the free part?
Other features I liked a lot include:
- Cross-platform support. They have client software for Windows (2000, XP and Vista), Mac (OS X Tiger and Leopard) and even Linux...particularly my favorite distro Ubuntu with either 32bit or 64bit versions no less!
- Data "de-duplication" - a process where their software recognizes duplicate files even if they have different file names, and only stores that file once. So I don't have to go clean up my files before starting to use a backup service to save space? Sweet!
- Incremental file backups at the block level, not the file level - this is a huge bandwidth and space saver. It's this technology that also allows Spideroak to offer restore of historical versions of files backed up.
- Client-based encryption of my data - the folks in the data center can't read my source code or accounting spreadsheets because they're encrypted before they're sent from my computer
You can get started with Spideroak at www.spideroak.com.
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