Jungle disk

[suityou01]

If you need a backup, you need at least two. Same principle with the cloud as with your own physical storage: what happens if the backup breaks?

And if you haven't tried a restore, you can't call it a backup.

As painful as this is for me I have to admit you are right. I just wanted a network drive I could use at home and at work. Kind of got caught up in the whole cloud computing thing. At least I only lost a days work. Then again I would have thought they would be able to view logs and pull something out of the hat for me.

I do have a backup in that I have a SVN repository on a system at home, but I had not commited my changes from work as I was in the middle of something and only wanted to submit my changes once the thing compiled. I did not have the GCC compiler on my pc at work and was just hand crafting some code in notepad in break periods. When I got home I just wanted to debug and compile then commit. I got as far as debugging, then tried to save my changes (to the cloud) and recompile. Notepad said the file was opened by another application and would not save my work. So I rebooted. When I next went into JD my files were empty.

I chose JD because they are a big name backed by an even bigger name. I have got my fingers burned and am pretty sore about it. What can I do other than chalk it up to experience, learn from my mistakes and have a rant about it on CUK forum?

 

[Bagpuss]

I got a jungle disk, wasn't very good at shaking my booty though

 

[expat]

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I chose JD because they are a big name backed by an even bigger name. I have got my fingers burned and am pretty sore about it. What can I do other than chalk it up to experience, learn from my mistakes and have a rant about it on CUK forum?

Absolutely.

I don't trust anything on the cloud: ISTM that the core business model now is free provision to user, cheap automated creation on server, ad clicks for revenue: and if the user gets burned, he can't complain because it cost him nothing.

That being the core model, even paying services tend to look at it the same way.

 

[Moscow Mule]

Have you tried carbonite?

I couldn't handle the hibernation sickness...

 

[teclo]

Have you tried dropbox yet? I use it on a daily bases and find it dead useful for sharing stuff between work and home. You get 2 gig for free too