If you’re like me you never back up your computers…stupid i know, but hay, there isn’t really a lot i don’t mind loosing or reinstalling……until now.
I’ve a 7 month old, and unless you’re a parent, you’ll be amazed at the amount of photos or video you start to take, obviously these are priceless so i though i better think about backups.
First one is obvious, external hard drive, check done, backed up all photos and videos to it and moved it away from the computer incase it gets damaged.
DVD’s, yup just in case the hard drive fails here another way of backing up. Ok so i think i’m done, but hmmmm what if the house burns down? ahaa offsite backups…i suppose i could take a copy to the parents or inlaws, but i don’t want to have to do that everytime i get new photos or make another backup…..in comes SPIDEROAK and online backup service. To quote from their site
“SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access & storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora) ”
WHAT? cross platform clients, including linux? awesome 
Works perfectly on my Ubuntu, Fedora, Windows 7, and Vista machines….
For the moment i’ve only gone for the free 2gb, but from what i’ve seen so far, it’s install client, select what to backup and go. The great thing is you can create sync’s, so if you want a photo folder to be the same on all pc’s you subscribe you can. Brill.
Once i’ve had a play i’ll decide if i want to go with the paid plan, which gives me 100GB for $10 a month, which if you’re using sterling is £6.60 a month, FTW!
Any one use this? Comments welcome.
*UPDATE*
I’ve decided to go with the paid service and currently am paying $9.99 for 100GB, which is totally plenty for my needs, so can’t recommend this highly enough, for now at least If you decide you want to try it out your self, then click the banner at the right hand side of the main website or this link – Spideroak
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I know of a similar service, which is Wuala (google it for the link). Never used any of this, though: real men don’t do backups
Wow. I’ve tried Dropbox and Jungledisk over the past couple of months and this seems like the ultimate program: it’s features both Dropbox and Jungledisk functionality and it’s fairly affordable. Me like. Thanks for pointing me to this! It pays to read Fedora People
You’d need to be careful that you’re not sync’ing certain sensitive data as you might accidental breach the data protection act by not holding the data in the country of origin.
Personally, I found SpiderOak to be a bit buggy and eccentric. Personally, I’m much happier with Dropbox, whihc also allows for multi-PC syncing and offsite backup, since it stores your data in the cloud as well.
Personally, I have my system drive, and a separate internal drive for media. My home folder gets rsynced to a folder on the media drive nightly. Also the full contents of the media drive are rsynced to a removable HDD nightly after the home rsync. And lastly, critical documents and pictures are synced via Dropbox to my work PC and in the Dropbox cloud itself.
I wonder about the security implications. I see it has “zero-knowledge” data encryption but who owns the key? I’d probably encrypt my data before uploading it, anyway.
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Daniel Larsson at SpiderOak Inc here!
Just wanted to thank you for the mention and add that for DropBox users a nice surprise will be that we do NOT clump all your files together in a ‘Sync Folder’ but keep your full folder structure!
Our service also keeps complete historical versioning meaning that will always be able to retrieve historical versions of your files!
If you own a blog or website, or just happen to be an avid marketing guru we also have an affiliate program for you at https://spideroak.com/affiliate – free to join and up to 50% payouts!
If you have any questions feel free to email me at; daniel@spideroak.com
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Do any of these work well with KDE? I think Dropbox uses Nautilus or something and I know UbuntuOne is gnome-orientated.