Comments on: The Toemeister! Makin’ Copies! Toemaramaman! http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/ Reviews and opinions about consumer technology, gadgets, Websites, new media, services, and more. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:13:42 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Backing up is hard to do « Media - what is it good for! http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-236493 Backing up is hard to do « Media - what is it good for! Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:12:21 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-236493 [...] people do.  This is very broken in this day and age when hard drives are cheap.  Jeremy tells you why you should.  Add to this that more people have more DRM’d data on their hard [...] [...] people do.  This is very broken in this day and age when hard drives are cheap.  Jeremy tells you why you should.  Add to this that more people have more DRM’d data on their hard [...]

]]> By: Ben Hedrington http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-233585 Ben Hedrington Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:31:40 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-233585 Don't forget to take a look at the plethora of Amazon S3 products out there, I use S3sync (http://s3sync.net/wiki) on my Unbuntu box to backup my pictures and data nightly (rsync style) but for the non-techie there is always Jungle Disk (http://www.jungledisk.com/). At 15 cents a GB (plus a few cents of incidentals on top of that for upload bandwidth etc.) it's a steal to have redundant off site backup and Amazon's infrastructure team in your corner keeping your data safe. Don’t forget to take a look at the plethora of Amazon S3 products out there, I use S3sync (http://s3sync.net/wiki) on my Unbuntu box to backup my pictures and data nightly (rsync style) but for the non-techie there is always Jungle Disk (http://www.jungledisk.com/). At 15 cents a GB (plus a few cents of incidentals on top of that for upload bandwidth etc.) it’s a steal to have redundant off site backup and Amazon’s infrastructure team in your corner keeping your data safe.

]]> By: James http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-233579 James Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:05:04 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-233579 I use a combo of carbonite for my PC and mozy for my Mac. Works well for me. I use a combo of carbonite for my PC and mozy for my Mac. Works well for me.

]]> By: Josh Shenkle http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-233578 Josh Shenkle Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:04:30 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-233578 For offsite/online backup I use: carbonite: http://www.carbonite.com/ as well as Amazon's S3: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261 Nice thing about carbonite, is every time a file is changed, added, ect... it automatically updates/uploads the backup online. For interfacing with S3 I use a free app called JungleDisk: http://jungledisk.com/ which btw if you are a windows home server user there is a jungledisk addon for WHS that allows you to do online backups of files stored on your WHS box. so basically you get redundancy of sorts with backups stored on your WHS box, then those backups are backed up online with Jungledisk/S3. For photo's I use Picasa ontop of Carbonite and S3, just for the fact that I use the picasa app on my desktop and its just easy to upload your photo's online for sharing as well as backup. for a somewhat easier manual process for backing up files, say your my documents folder, check out SyncToy, one of the many Microsoft PowerToys: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en With SyncToy you can setup automatic backups of any folder, file, or even entire hard drive, and set it to backup to an external HDD, or even another networked PC. It is also great if you want to sync two folders, say your my documents folder between your desktop and your laptop. Using SyncToy helps prevent the multiple copies of a single file issue. hope this helps, - Josh For offsite/online backup I use: carbonite: http://www.carbonite.com/ as well as Amazon’s S3: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=16427261

Nice thing about carbonite, is every time a file is changed, added, ect… it automatically updates/uploads the backup online.

For interfacing with S3 I use a free app called JungleDisk: http://jungledisk.com/ which btw if you are a windows home server user there is a jungledisk addon for WHS that allows you to do online backups of files stored on your WHS box. so basically you get redundancy of sorts with backups stored on your WHS box, then those backups are backed up online with Jungledisk/S3.

For photo’s I use Picasa ontop of Carbonite and S3, just for the fact that I use the picasa app on my desktop and its just easy to upload your photo’s online for sharing as well as backup.

for a somewhat easier manual process for backing up files, say your my documents folder, check out SyncToy, one of the many Microsoft PowerToys: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=E0FC1154-C975-4814-9649-CCE41AF06EB7&displaylang=en

With SyncToy you can setup automatic backups of any folder, file, or even entire hard drive, and set it to backup to an external HDD, or even another networked PC. It is also great if you want to sync two folders, say your my documents folder between your desktop and your laptop. Using SyncToy helps prevent the multiple copies of a single file issue.

hope this helps,
- Josh

]]> By: Gold http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-233576 Gold Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:02:19 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-233576 help.......? help…….?

]]> By: Ron Feldman http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/comment-page-1/#comment-233549 Ron Feldman Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:30:10 +0000 http://www.livedigitally.com/2008/01/22/the-toemeister-makin-copies-toemaramaman/#comment-233549 I use Mozy (www.mozy.com) to back up my Macbook - pretty good deal - up to 10GB of space for free and unlimited storage for $4.95/month. I set it to backup in the middle of the night daily (you can set it however often you want) and it usually takes less than 1 hour. Have been debating whether or not to switch to Time Machine and my local drive since upgrading to Leopard. I think these totally automated solutions are best as I've found even calendar reminders don't cut it sometimes..... I use Mozy (www.mozy.com) to back up my Macbook – pretty good deal – up to 10GB of space for free and unlimited storage for $4.95/month. I set it to backup in the middle of the night daily (you can set it however often you want) and it usually takes less than 1 hour. Have been debating whether or not to switch to Time Machine and my local drive since upgrading to Leopard. I think these totally automated solutions are best as I’ve found even calendar reminders don’t cut it sometimes…..

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