Tech - Storage

Syncthing - FOSS file syncing

"It’s amazing how great computer products can be when they don’t need to deal with corporate bullshit, don’t have to promote a brand or to sell its users."

Maybe look into this. And hey yeah, there is an Android app.

10/20/16

Tackling the big hairy problem of sync

Vesper Sync Diary

Haven't read this. Wonder how much of what he learned is broadly applicable vs app-specific.

12/03/14

Camlistore

Camlistore is a set of open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing and synchronizing data in the post-PC era.

Basically, this is designed to be How Individuals Store Their Stuff. Forever.

Ambitious, but it's from Brad Fitzpatrick, so it might actually work.

10/25/07

PSA: backups

Another scorching deployment of common sense from jwz (also, the simplest instructions you will ever see for scheduling daily backups - until Time Machine.)

Me = SuperDuper! daily. No offsite backup though.

I actually have very little irreplaceable stuff on my home 'puter. My email is stored on a bunch of disks in a Google server farm. My music is on three disks, counting backup and iPod. Most of my favorite photos are on Flickr. Etc.

10/04/06

Another discussion of online backup strategies

Argues that Amazon S3 is cheaper than running your own backup server; others advocate for Dreamhost.

Whoa: $5/month unlimited online backup, and enough big-name partners to make it look legit. (Mac client "by end of 2006", sigh)

04/26/06

Allmydata
p2p storage / backup. This is how it should work, not sure if this particular service is the One True Way though.

Cleversafe looks more interesting to me.

04/26/06

good Slashdot discussion about backup strategies
No seriously. I think most of the trolls etc saw the word "backup" and fell asleep, keeping discussion quality relatively high.

update: other discussions

at Dive Into Mark

04/21/06

incremental backup using ftp for OS X
Harder to find than you'd think. There's this: Retrospect Desktop Edition; an Express edition apparently comes bundled with some "backup devices" (hard drives?)

03/22/06
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ReadyNAS NV
Apparently the best plug-and-play RAID solution. Not as expensive as I thought, either.

Update: or, build your own for $500. (wait, that's not RAID)

or: Yellow Machine

01/27/06

How to set up ftp-only user accounts in OS X

01/10/06

Use Streamload for big backups
They don't mention on their website, but ftp access is available. For $5 a month you can upload as much as you want. My backup solution has arrived! C'mere prince, gimme a kiss! (Ok, there is a catch ... if you ever need to get at those backups, you'll need to shell out a few hundred bucks to actually be able to download them. But that will never happen surely?)

11/23/05

want a home RAID box
network storage on the cheap for the home
Ars Technica user recommendations
Build your own SATA raid (for $1000 ... seems pricey)
MacGurus Burly SATA Enclosure Kits and installation guide (also pricey!)
askme thread

09/22/05

automatic backups under tiger using rsync
minimal installation of rsync for windows

09/22/05

NetDrive
Map an ftp server as a drive under Windows.

07/28/05

Buffalo TeraStation Terabyte Network Attached Storage
My next hard drive.

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