Free online backups for home use

Jeff — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:52:28 +0000

Just a quick note this morning to remind everyone to make sure that you’re making plenty of backups of your data. I’m a bit paranoid when it comes to data loss, so I like to take extra precautions. Since all of our computers are macs every machine here has an external drive attached for using Apple’s Time Machine to make automatic backups. I also archive my data to a shared location on the network. The only problem with either of these approaches (as implemented) is that it doesn’t get the data offsite. To solve that problem, I’ve been using Mozy for the last two months. Mozy offers 2GB of free online storage for home use per account. It’s not enough to back up everything, but it goes a long way to backup my most important or timely documents. I may consider upgrading my account and pay the $4.95 a month to get unlimited storage.

I haven’t tried the Windows client so I can’t vouch for it, but so far the Mac client has worked with no problems.

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And if you decide to try it out I’d appreciate it if you used my link here. It’s a referral program and I get an extra 256MB of space for each person that signs up through the link. For a short time, their bumping that up to 512MB per sign up, so I thought I’d plug the product here and maybe earn myself a bit of extra backup storage!

Gmail IMAP missing

Jeff — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:35:55 +0000

UPDATE: Looks like it’s been re-enabled. Hopefully for good. Maybe they were upgrading the service.

Looks like Google may be having some issues w/their IMAP services. I noticed earlier that my palm pilot couldn’t access my gmail account via IMAP, producing a connection error. When I log into my gmail settings, the IMAP section from the ‘Forwarding and Pop’ tab is now missing:

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Free online backups for home use

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