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Mount Skydrive As A Network Drive

By Mark on Tuesday, April 27th, 2010 | No Comments

I really like Skydrive Explorer. It creates a virtual folder so you can drag files into it but if you wished to use Skydrive to backup data automatically you are out of luck. Here’s a method to mount Skydrive as an actual network drive. It requires what I can only call a kluge. It requires [...]

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Me Want Drobo

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

My first three rules of computing are backup, backup and backup. You may have  heard this before? I use Carbonite a cloud backup solution that works very well but I really should have a local backup as well. 321 Backup Drobo looks like a great solution. Drobo is an external hardive based storage device that [...]

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One Is Not Good Enough

By Mark on Sunday, April 11th, 2010 | No Comments

I have a set I rules I follow when computing. The first three are backup, backup, and backup. This poor lady came to my computer users group with a external harddrive that was not functioning. I took a look at it. When I plugged it in to the power it started click loudly. I plugged [...]

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Jungle Disk

By Mark on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | 1 Comment

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com’s S3 ™ Storage Service. S3 does not have an application So Jungle Disk provides you with one. Jungle Disk creates a network drive in your computer and you just drag folder and files over or you can setup an [...]

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Backup Your Cloud

By Mark on Wednesday, December 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Backupify is one of the coolest services that I have seen. Backup all of your online life in one place. Enter all of your cloud accounts (Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Zoho, Google Docs, Photobucket, WordPress sites, Basecamp, Gmail, Facebook, Friendfeed, Blogger, Hotmail and coming soon Youtube, Xmarks and Tumblr) and Backupify will backup your data on [...]

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JungleDisk and S3

By Mark on Friday, October 17th, 2008 | No Comments

RULE #1: If you don’t have two copies of a file on different media you don’t have the file. This being the case you have to back-up continuously. Backing up to an external drive or network drive is a good way to do this, but what happens of there’s a fire and all of your [...]

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