Dropping BigPond Mind Shackles
Posted by brad on July 31st, 2008
I’ve been off bigpond as an ISP for 10 months or more now, I’m constantly surprised how long it is taking me to drop the mindset that I need to worry about upload volumes. 6 months or so ago I had the epiphany that I could actually be a seeder on some of the open source projects I subscribe to, because upload isn’t a constraint on me anymore. This week I’ve had the epiphany all over again - I can backup to the cloud!
Mozy.com is where you want to go. $103 for two years of unlimited backups! I’ve configured 287gb of backups. This is going to take an age to get baselined, but once done it will be small to maintain complete offsite back up of all my data, photos, music collection and home movies. The back up process itself a breeze, I’ve got it setup to monitor the file system and perform backup cycles as and when needed. You can then restore through the app, through an explorer shell extension, through a web based app wherever you are or get them to ship you DVDs.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Yeah free uploads are great, but you still get hit by the TCP ACK’s coming back down. The “upload tax”.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Luckily ACK load is pretty small relative to the 150GB plan I’m on. But it’s a pretty cool service eh? I remember some of these services coming out in the late 90s, I could never get my head to believing they would really fly, but this one rocks.
Mind you it’ll be late January before all my content is backed up :)