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CrashPlan backup is awesome

12, Jun 2009

I setup CrashPlan for a friend overnight and the software really lives up to its advertising.  The software is really easy to install and registration is straight forward.  After install, you select what data to backup – which is less robust than Mozy’s default filters – but its easy enough to point to her user [...]

One month later, Mozy backup almost complete

11, Jun 2009

One month and two days ago, I posted about my experience with online backup solution Mozy.  I’d tried the product once before and been disappointed with the backup speeds, and so I abandoned it, only to begin again last month.  After a month of backing up, I’ve almost got my initial 60GB plus a month’s [...]

Mozy status update

29, May 2009

Its been a couple weeks now since I’ve written a Mozy backup status update.  We have progressed quite a ways in the backup process.  I have interrupted the backups almost every evening once I get home because it was saturating my upstream connection and degrading my internet performance while I was trying to use it. [...]

Mozy backup update

15, May 2009

So, its been exactly a week since I started my Mozy backup.  I have now progressed to completion of approximately 20GB of my data backed up.  My iMac froze (yes, it does happen…) one day and I had to restart it when I got home from work, but the backup kicked off again.  So, 20GB [...]

Trying out Mozy again…

9, May 2009

Since posting about Backblaze, I got some very good comments about Mozy.  They have also not been sitting idle and they’ve added a few features to the service.  One of those new feature is the ability to get your restore on external media shipped to you, a key differentiator to Backblaze, I said earlier.   The [...]

Test driving Backblaze online backup for Mac

1, May 2009

I have been testing various online backup solutions for home.  I really like the peer to peer backup solution , though I’ve yet to take up my buddy’s offer to host my backup drive at his house…  Speaking of, I guess I need a larger backup drive.  So, in the meantime, I’ve been looking at [...]

Peer to Peer Backup solutions appearing

3, Jan 2009

To the Napster (real, not pay-for) generation, such as my self, the peer-to-peer thing has always been enticing.  That’s why I was so impressed when I stumbled upon CrashPlan last week.  It immediately struck me as a great idea for backup.  Peer to Peer backup really puts you in control of your data backup and [...]

Apple working on Home Media server?

29, Dec 2008

9to5mac has a post that speculates that Apple is working on a Home Media server.  I certainly hope so.  This is the biggest issue to the multi-Mac household, like mine.  We have three Macs in my house and the biggest issue we have is sharing our music  and moreso video between our computers.  We purchase all [...]

Prepping for Tropical Storm Hanna and maybe Hurricane Ike

4, Sep 2008

My week at HTC has been filled with hurricane contengency planning and preparation.  For the most part, HTC is in a good state with two connected datacenters about 15 miles from each other and real-time replication for much of our data.   Most of our planning is revolving around protecting the things that aren’t stretched [...]

My impressions of MobileMe

17, Aug 2008

Its been a little while since MobileMe has been released and the dust has started the settle. There was a lot of attention to the botched launch and even the Steve has weighed in on it with an internal email circulated through Apple. And while the launch had major issues, the service is really impressive. [...]


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