Comments on: Backups and Meatworld http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/ One foot in the muck, the other in utopia Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:42:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: cote http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10628 cote Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:40:27 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10628 Dave: thanks for the info. The mail in think would be great! Rick: now if I only had a bank with a safe deposit box ;) Dave: thanks for the info. The mail in think would be great!

Rick: now if I only had a bank with a safe deposit box ;)

]]> By: rick gregory http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10399 rick gregory Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:29:01 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10399 Coté, Do what I did... no way was I re-ripping 400+ CDs, so: Look at your music folder. Buy external drive that's bigger. Copy music to drive. Unplug drive, take to bank, put in safe deposit box. Offsite, secure, no upload needed. Covers the "Oh god, I don't want to have to re-rip most of my music if the laptop and home go" case. Not online, but in the unlikely event that my home and laptop burn up, online access to my music isn't going to be top of mind... Coté,

Do what I did… no way was I re-ripping 400+ CDs, so:

Look at your music folder.
Buy external drive that’s bigger.
Copy music to drive.
Unplug drive, take to bank, put in safe deposit box.

Offsite, secure, no upload needed. Covers the “Oh god, I don’t want to have to re-rip most of my music if the laptop and home go” case. Not online, but in the unlikely event that my home and laptop burn up, online access to my music isn’t going to be top of mind…

]]> By: Jungle Dave http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10366 Jungle Dave Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:43:03 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2007/02/27/backups-and-meatworld/#comment-10366 The "painful initial backup" is a concern we hear quite a bit. We may offer some kind of mail-in solution in the future, but for most users we think that by refining the backup process to work unobtrusively behind the scenes, the initial backup can be made less painful. Currently in the software you can set a rate limit (to prevent it from using all your upstream), and it will automatically pick up where it left off if you disconnect - so no need to worry about leaving a laptop idle. In the future we'd like to add more features, such as rate-limit by time (no limit at night) or usage-based rate limiting (turn down/off backup while you are using the machine). But don't let that initial upload scare you - for most users it's over before they know it (even with 10's of gigs of data). The “painful initial backup” is a concern we hear quite a bit. We may offer some kind of mail-in solution in the future, but for most users we think that by refining the backup process to work unobtrusively behind the scenes, the initial backup can be made less painful.
Currently in the software you can set a rate limit (to prevent it from using all your upstream), and it will automatically pick up where it left off if you disconnect - so no need to worry about leaving a laptop idle.
In the future we’d like to add more features, such as rate-limit by time (no limit at night) or usage-based rate limiting (turn down/off backup while you are using the machine). But don’t let that initial upload scare you - for most users it’s over before they know it (even with 10’s of gigs of data).

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