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Entries for the ‘Backup’ Category

Crashplan now has an iOS app

My favorite cloud based backup service Crashplan, now has an iPhone app (who doesn’t?). Now all your backed up files can be accessed on your iOS device. More notes on backup Access files on the go with new CrashPlan apps | Utilities | Macworld.

Notes on computer backup

Over the years I have had more than my share of hard drive failures. As more and more of our lives are in the form of digital photos and videos, a dead drive without backups creates a lot of frustration and lost memories. Fortunately I have not had any significant data loss in over ten [...]

I finally got all my data backed up to the cloud

Yes, I finally got all my movies, music, photos and documents backed up to a remote server. It took 9 months of slow continuous background backup to get all 2.1TB (terrabytes) or 2,100 gigabytes of data uploaded. But now that it is all there the changes will be quicker to upload. The need for remote [...]

Adding space to my Drobo

I have finally started to transfer years of home video from MiniDV tapes to my hard drive. I have attempted to do some in the past, but often storage and computing power was too restrictive to move all my raw home video to the hard drive. I was left with just adding a few videos [...]

Total Mac recovery using Superduper

Came home today to see my first Mac, my G4 iMac in a state of trying to reboot. It just hung there trying to get started. I turned it off unplugged it to reset the power controller and tried to turn it back on. Still no luck– looks like the drive is corrupted. Disk drives [...]