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If I understand it correctly, Windows Skydrive lets you copy individual files to the service, then access them later or share them with others. It's not a backup service, and has no automatic provision for just "back up all my stuff".

-Dane

Yes, I was not comparing the software, just the storage size available. Don't get me wrong, its wonderful you're offering the backup service. I may be atypical, but in my home we're looking at about 2TB of disk across 4-5 machines and one home server. I'm not going to be able to back that up @ sonic so for me its identical to being able to copy select files offsite for remote backup.

Also, as a linux user I'm not seeing a backup client (rsync, maybe? webdav?)

Ya, the reason they can give folks a huge quota is that it's impossible to use when you've go to individually save every file.

We'll be launching a Linux client pretty soon, as I understand it!

-Dane

That's what tar is for

If you were real savvy, your Linux box would tar up your data, then remote control a windows box which used a mouse scripting tool which would automatically upload the tar-ball every night to Skydrive, while deleting any old data as required to maintain just under five gigs of usage.

Oh, and it would only upload diffs to keep your outbound link from always being full.

-Dane

Maybe two friends with static IPs host rsync for each other?

Encrypt, of course.

-Dane

reply to DaneJasper
What I have done on my systems and all the servers I run is to have identical drives in the system so that drive 2 basically at 4AM, it does a dump/restore of the entire contents of drive 1 so that if drive 1 failed, all I have to do is make the drive 2 as drive 1 and it boots... Only downside is that I could lose up to 24 hours of changes.
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reply to DaneJasper
Can we get more than 500gb?

Can I use it on non sonic connected PC's? Hughesnet for example.

thks D-
whoops 'ment more than 50 gb...typo

Multiple 50gb blocks for 4.95 ea?

but the business plan sounds more my speed...

The challenge is that you can't cover cost at $5 for 50 gigs of backup storage. Keep in mind we've got RAID overhead, plus allow for second datacenter site storage (two copies of everything that's backed up, at two sites behind the scenes), so that doubles it again.

The biz product will allow for unlimited storage, but have a cost per gig. It'll still be quite competitive, but it's really designed for reliable disaster recovery storage for business users.

-Dane

Hi Dane,

I was going to try the backup service, but the download links are broken. Can someone look into it please? Not sure if it's just me. Thanks.

HTTP Status 404 - /obs/download/acb-win-jvm16x32.exe

type Status report

message /obs/download/acb-win-jvm16x32.exe

description The requested resource (/obs/download/acb-win-jvm16x32.exe) is not available.

Sorry, version problem, this will be corrected shortly!

Thanks Dane. I noticed file location has changed to »backup.sonic.net/obs/download/acb-win.exe.

But as of 12/7 9:40PM PST, the new download link also didn't work. It get saved to a zero byte file.

Anybody tried the backup application yet? any screenshots?

Okie, I think we've got our ducks in a row - give it a shot!

-Dane