The rest of us must do our parts! Spread SVS awareness!

At the time of my signup, they were the cheapest, unlimited backup provider I could find. Other unlimited sources like Mozy or Carbonite charged a bit more per month. I would have to say that Mozy and Carbonite might win a user interface or usability contest. Crashplan really could use a designer’s touch on many aspects of their application and process.

Lastly, I must say, it costs a mite to get started and takes a couple weeks of uploading over consumer internet connection speeds, but it’s nice to have all data I’d rather not lose stashed away remotely.

• A desktop or laptop of any kind
• A linux server

Applications used

• Backuppc on the linux server (there’s a package for it on most distributions)
• DeltaCopy on Windows XP (you can use rsync directly on Mac and Linux desktops)

Basically, install both, and configure to taste. Consult the documentation on both sites.

However, there are some tricks that made life easier. For example, you might want to configure DeltaCopy to be the rsync server on the Windows computer. If you use Mac or Linux, you can do it any way you like. I found making DeltaCopy the rsync server on Windows to be easiest. This way, you can use the ‘rsyncd’ option in backuppc to “pull” files from “shares” you create using DeltaCopy. The other way around didn’t seem to work as smoothly as I’d liked.

By default, backuppc “wakes up” every hour, on the hour, and looks for changes on it’s hosts. Making this faster definitely makes it easier to catch a laptop user online for a backup. The real beauty of backuppc is that it works similarly to rsync (even moreso when it’s using rsync). Incremental backups save large amounts of space.

Chuck norris doesn’t wear a watch because he decides what time it is.

Love you baby!

(Feel free to search the web for “chuck norris jokes.” Please don’t tell me what you find, but you might get the idea as to why I find this humorous and fantastic.)

What kind of consulting would you happen to do?

But really, don’t paint it on your company trucks. Oh, and camera phones are awesome.

Cool, I won’t hop out of the ship to touch the sign now. Thanks.

(Thanks to Jeff for the screenshot)

That’s my boy!

“We need to give somebody, somewhere in the federal government. . . the power to do what the FDIC can do with banks.”

Really? As if we need to give the government any more power!

Aren’t you all glad errors like this are much less common? Oh, and notice you DON’T have any option other than rebooting the computer. Wait a second, that sounds like installing “updates” on Windows….