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.
Posts Tagged ‘storage’
Mount Skydrive As A Network Drive
Posted: April 27, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Skydrive, Skydrive Explorer, storage, SyncToy, web 2.0, Windows
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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.
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.
Jungle Disk
Posted: February 20, 2010 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, backup, cloud, cloud-computing, Jungle Disk, S3, Software, storage
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 [...]
Carbonite
Posted: February 12, 2010 in SoftwareTags: backup, Carbonite, cloud, cloud-computing, storage
Carbonite is an online data backup solution. I’ve been using Carbonite to backup the data on my desktop for a years because of the price and all the data you want for $54.95 per year per computer. I have a lot of MP3s and photos to back and the all you can eat pricing is [...]
Gmail Uploader
Posted: February 8, 2010 in GoogleTags: backup, cloud, Gmail, storage, web, web 2.0, web apps
Have you recently moved to Gmail but still have a most of your contacts and all of your Email still in a program like Outlook on your Windows computer. The Google Email Uploader is what you need. The Gmail Uploader will take those contacts and messages preserving your folder structure and import them right into [...]
Build A Home Server
Posted: January 29, 2010 in HardwareTags: backup, home server, NAS, opensource, server, storage
As I say constantly, “The three most important maintenance task on your computer are, backup, backup and backup.” You can always restore your software or replace your computer in a worst case scenario. What you can’t do or can’t do easily is recover your data. This is what you want to spend most of effort [...]
Virtual Drives
Posted: November 6, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: cloud, cloud-computing, drive, Internet, storage, web, web 2.0
I mentioned in the post Cloud Storage Overview that there are some services where you can store your precious files via cloud based storage (on the Internet). Here are a couple of options that will create a virtual drive on your computer as if it was an actual drive. Dropbox is a service that gives [...]
Gladinet Cloud Desktop
Posted: February 24, 2009 in Web 2.0Tags: Amazon, cloud, cloud-computing, S3, storage
Thanks to Zack who commented to my SkyDrive post for this one! Gladinet is the future! It is Web 3.0! Gladinet is a great little application that brings all of your online storage to your desktop as virtual drives. Use online storages (Not only SkyDrive but ADrive, Google Docs, Amazon S3 , and others.) as [...]
Called “Skydrive” a part of Microsoft’s “Windows Live” it allows you to store and share up to 25GB of data (documents, photos and other media files). “Windows Live Photo Gallery” syncs automatically to Skydrive which is terrific. What I am a very disappointed by; there is no method to transfer other files by a desktop [...]
