It’s not an app, it is bookmarklet. Copy code form the post and save it as bookmark in your browser. Click bookmark to use function.

can you please post a hyperlink…….

thank you in advance.

Hmm… Completely automated solution that will survive a fire is tricky. Best I can think of to use (or build yourself) miniature low-powered file server (you know, those size of a power plug) that is cool enough to work in enclosed space and fire-proof it.

Or you could go for NAS with more able OS and try online storage. Throttle bandwidth and/or schedule to hours when you don’t need connection.

I spend a lot of time thinking about backups and trying to get a system in place, but I always find there are holes in almost any system.

I have an awful lot of large files, mainly from my 21MP camera and so online storage would start to smoke my connection a bit. At the moment I use my Macbook Pro, which backs up to my Time Machine every hour. I periodically move files from my local macbook up to my NAS, which RSYNC’s the drive to another drive overnight.

This system accounts for hardware failure to a level where I don’t worry about it. It is also located in a secure place in the house, so I don’t worry about theft too much either.

Saying that, I do find myself thinking “what if we had a fire”? Maybe I am over-thinking, maybe not… From my point of view I need to get a solution that is completely automated. Relying on me taking drives to work would not be good, I would just forget LOL

The main issue of online backup is my NAS is the bit that needs to be backed up mostly and that runs FreeNAS. All the online backups I see use a TSR type utility to backup “internal” drives within Windows or OSX. Other than rigging up something to bypass that system they won’t work with my setup.

One thing I had thought of is a second NAS in a shed at the bottom of the garden, hooked up via wireless just for backup… but then again is it really worth it just to secure against the possibility of fire?

Well, I had backup and everything without such scares… And still there were pieces that could get lost.

Your backup is way more hardcore than mine. :) I am spoiled by Dropbox a bit – really easy way to get stuff off site to cloud without thinking about it. You should give it a try. It uses delta sync (only changes in files are transferred) and work quietly in the background so it may work even on slow connection for documents and other low-sized files.

I am also not a fan of imaging. Most of my software is portable anyway and I can go from empty to fully set up and patched computer in like two hours with silent install and portables.

Actually I was quite sure that I lost it when buying tea on the road from work to programming courses. I even called work and it wasn’t anywhere in sight. Took a trip back just to be sure and there it was (after I turned room upside down). :)

$30 monthly seems expensive for a modem, around here 3G modems costs $50-$100 total.

I had recently found interesting option of 144Kbit/s (CDMA 1x) for only $8 (eight) monthly. If there are no caveats I am likely to go for it, cheap and no traffic limit is epic win for wireless Internet connection.

It is a way to go. 5GB plan is $65/month. Not bad, especially
if you are in remote locations.

Peter