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On 6/17/10 5:32 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone have any experience with online, automatic network backup
services for Macs
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I have been playing with them for a little while now and have tried
carbonite and was very disappointed by it as well as the sales/support
responses I got. I gave up on them.<br>
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Crashplan is the winner for me.<br>
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They let you back up more than one machine *through* a single machine.<br>
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I tested it by doing a complete backup of my system. Yes it took
forever but it did it reliably.<br>
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Crashplan lets you do versioning where carbonite didn't.<br>
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Crashplan also has been very responsive to it's users via a forum as
well as some emails I sent them. They're the ones who made the
?obvious? suggestion that you use time-machine to make your initial
backup of the system, then save that disk some place safe and use
crashplan to pickup the daily changes.<br>
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I have some notes (that I've misplaced) about one of the other services
but it didn't have anything major in it.<br>
(I think it was backblaze.)<br>
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Personally, I'd like to see MIT get a Crashplan server here and do
backups for everyone. (Yes, this is an option.)<br>
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<< MCT >> Michael C Tiernan. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="xmpp:mtiernan@mit.edu">xmpp:mtiernan@mit.edu</a>
MIT - Laboratory for Nuclear Science - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lns.mit.edu">http://www.lns.mit.edu</a>
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"Bit-smashing your bits better than anyone can!"</pre>
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