I wonder how well this kind of thing works. Doing hourly incremental backups to a remote server and sucking up 100GB or so of their disk space seems prone to failure. It could take weeks to get the first backup through and it might just keep up with the incremental after that. At least most broadband plans are asymmetric where the upload speed is only a small fraction of the download speed. Some ISPs even have transfer caps in the handful of gigabytes per month and then you get to pay more for your unlimited bandwidth. Then what if you do need to restore? Say your hard disk fails and you want your stuff back? It could take a long time to fling it all back over the broadband network. For me I'd rather just buy a couple external drives and swap them every now and then. Store one offsite at a friends house and be done.
CB Mike Arrigo wrote: > One service that will do this is carbonite, not sure how well it > works, in general, on line backup services should be in edition to > your own external media, not a replacement for it. > On Aug 16, 2009, at 11:49 AM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > > >> There are some web applications that will do this. Tidbits has >> reviewed them on occasion, and I believe there was mention of one in >> the last 2 weeks. Also the take control of backups on Leopard does >> discuss online backups. >> >> Jon >> >> On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:46 PM, william lomas wrote: >> >> >>> hi it is ashame that we can't use time machine with online storage >>> rather than having to keep external hard drives connected at all >>> times >>> Will >>> >>> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
