A Frustrating Journey
I wrote about using Synology as a Time Machine backup destination in my previous article. This one will be about using the Synology Data Replicator 3 (DR3) software to backup my Windows PCs. Synology has a fairly large list of supported 3rd party backup applications, but DR3 is bundled with the Synology NAS so I'll give it a try. Read the rest »
CloudberryConsoleAs part of my Windows Home Server 2011 evaluation I’ve been looking at two backup add-ins – Cloudberry Online Backup for Windows Home Server and KeepVault. I’ve been using KeepVault with my Windows Home Server v1 for just under a year. I’ve heard about Cloudberry off and on but never looked into it, probably turned off by the name. It's time to compare the two of them. Read the rest »
It's been a year since I looked at my backup strategy. Having just rebuilt my PC twice in the last few weeks it was a good time to go through the review. It's a bit of a hodgepodge but it's automatic and works. Here's the tools I use and a high-level view of how I do the backups. Read the rest »
I’ve been using Jungle Disk as my offsite backup solution with the backup going to Rackspace Cloud Files (RCF). This has worked but it has become expensive over time as the amount of files being stored continues to grow. I found a good backup solution with KeepVault Backup. Read the rest »
The days of using a few floppy disks to backup important files are long gone. In going through my website I realized that the information about my backup strategy was a bit dated and didn’t reflect how I do things. Going through everything in order to write this article would also help me be sure I had a bulletproof backup strategy. The goal is to have a solid backup solution so I never have to use a file recovery tool like Data Rescue II. So here goes… My Backup Philosophy [...] Read the rest »
I had occasion to use the services of Leopard’s Time Machine backup over the weekend and decided to post some quick notes. None of this is bad, it just might be good to know what to expect going in. Large Restore After corrupting my local iTunes library (through a stupid mistake) while trying to get it to work off of a Windows Home Server I decided to go the restore route rather than try to fix the problem and miss something. I knew it would work and I could go [...] Read the rest »
Mozy has released an update to their MacMozy software, bringing it to version 0.8.0.0. The update was released Oct. 25th and I’ve been running it for a little over a week. I updated both the free account to back up my MacBook along with the unlimited account to backup my main iMac. While I hadn’t had any problems since updated to Leopard (MacMozy 0.7.0.0 or higher is needed for Leopard) I immediately started getting ConnectionError1 during my first backups after upgrading on my iMac. (My MacBook backups are small and [...] Read the rest »
After getting Leopard set up and most software installed it was time to set up Mozy again. I’m backing up about 30GB to Mozy and if all the files had to be sent again it would take days at my upload speed. Even though I was doing a complete re-install of everything I’d be restoring the bulk of my data to the same locations and they should appear unchanged to Mozy. Some data would be unchanged but be in new locations. Since I was re-installing all software the settings would [...] Read the rest »
The MacMozy Beta software was recently updated to v0.7.0.0. Mozy is the online backup service and MacMozy is the Mac client that I use. The Mozy website doesn’t list what changes are included in this version and there aren’t any obvious changes. So, I’m assuming it was bug fixes and/or performance enhancements. After updating the Mozy client the backup software would report connection errors (Connectionerror2) each time it tried to do a backup. Once I rebooted my Mac the errors went away and the backups resumed working. I didn’t have [...] Read the rest »
I’ve been looking at Jungle Disk for online storage and backup and so far I like what I see. Jungle disk is a good example of a software developer that has built a service on the infrastructure provided by Amazon Web Services. In this case it’s the Amazon Simple Storage Service. Amazon S3 for short. Jungle Disk runs under OS X, Windows and Linux. I’ve only used the Mac version and everything in this article is related to the Mac version. Jungle Disk isn’t typical backup software and they rightfully [...] Read the rest »