I’m using the superb Jungledisk to back up my laptop (hat tip: Andy). Because I’ve shifted my Documents folder around on my laptop from one hard drive to the other I’m having to re-upload it all.
Time to complete: 1-2 days for 3Gb.
Or to put it another way, I’m going to have to wait a month with my DSL line working flat out 24×7 to backup my 30Gb of family photo photos online from my home server.
And they say there’s no demand for fibre? Well, I’m not alone in disagreeing.
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I understand the point that you want to make but in this case the online storage service should really be smart enough to check file hashes and understand that you are just moving files around and not deleting old files and uploading new files.
Even with fiber uploading 30GB is a pain.
Posted by: at September 23, 2008 01:29 PMGlad you like Jungle Disk...now don't you wish you had my wife's 50 meg symmetrical fiber connection.... :-)
She uses JungleDisk and the SureWest fiber access which costs $200 a month to upload her patients charts and her medical notes. Sure makes it easy when her husband is always buying her a new computer....she just got a Acer Aspire One and an Asus 901 XP as well as a few Linux EEE PC's for the office...her favorite is the Dialogue FlyBook V5...of course, it's also the priciest.
Posted by: at October 11, 2008 02:11 PM