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Experiences with Dropbox as iPhoto Library Backup
Background: The renewal on my annual Mozy Backup subscription was due, and I decided that I wanted to consolidate backup solutions. Dropbox had (recently?) upped their Pro plan to 1TB, so there was plenty of room to back up a 100GB iPhoto library. I made the switch on Wednesday of this week, dragging the iPhoto library…
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Coding Horror: The Economics of Bandwidth
Coding Horror: The Economics of Bandwidth. Interesting what the price of bandwidth is compared to hard drive pricing. I’m mostly interested in this from a backup perspective, and sending data to an offset backup via 2-500GB hard drives would figure to be cheaper than sending data to an Amazon-hosted backup solution. Update: I just realized…
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What is your backup strategy?
I’m looking for input on what your home and/or small business backup strategy is. What? You don’t have one? Well, mine has been spotty at best. I originally bought my Dell XPS desktop as a “Scratch & Dent” machine. It has a RAID controller, but only came with a 250 GB hard drive, and the…