Jungle disk

[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

[Moscow Mule]

Have you tried carbonite?

I couldn't handle the hibernation sickness...

[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.

[Bagpuss]

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

[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?

[NickNick]

Have you tried carbonite?

[expat]

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.

[darmstadt]

Tonight, the files all report 0 bytes and are empty. Got some muppet technician asking me if I took a backup FFS. Its because I was worried about my laptop breaking or being stolen that I bought some cloud storage.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

They are supposed to be my backup strategy. OMFG. And they charge for this.

This, along with recent outages at Google, shows that companies should not trust nor jump on the cloud bandwagon. Its an emerging technology and is just not mature enough for 'production' just yet.

[suityou01]

That said, though, you did have a back-up, right?

Yes, on Jungle disk.

[FSM with Cheddar]

If you like slow bloated unfriendly friends

Idrive is much better

WHS

IDrive is really good

[dang65]

Got some muppet technician asking me if I took a backup FFS. Its because I was worried about my laptop breaking or being stolen that I bought some cloud storage.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

They are supposed to be my backup strategy. OMFG.

That said, though, you did have a back-up, right?

[blacjac]

mozyhome is your friend.

If you like slow bloated unfriendly friends

Idrive is much better

[chris79]

I always email important stuff to my gmail account as a backup, could always use that in addition. Unlucky though! Not very good service from them if they can lose customers data like that.

[GeorgeGregan]

mozyhome is your friend.

[suityou01]

Just lost a days work because of those muppets. Signed up at the weekend and uploaded my code. then couldn't access the drive all weekend. Got a response to my support request saying that they had been doing infrastructure work over the weekend and they were sorry for the inconvenience and they would waive the next months fees.

So far so good. Then my jungle disk stopped working again. Another support request. Turns out they want you to upgrade the client software due to a bug. Upgraded client software and happy days.

Worked on my code for two days. Both at work (in breaks and stuff) and then at home. All good.

Tonight, the files all report 0 bytes and are empty. Got some muppet technician asking me if I took a backup FFS. Its because I was worried about my laptop breaking or being stolen that I bought some cloud storage.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.

They are supposed to be my backup strategy. OMFG. And they charge for this.