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Submission + - CrashPlan Alterntive (zendesk.com)

cornjones writes: After several years of being happy with CrashPlan's home backup system, i received the unfortunate news today that they are shutting down operations for home users. They offer a few alternatives but since I am in the market for a new backup provider, I thought I would ask what my fellow /. readers use.

My use case:
- backups for several computers, both at my house and scattered family machines
- encrypted locally by a key I set, only encrypted bits are stored offsite
- I have a copy of my data onsite. I primarily want to protect against lost drives or fire (or ransomware attack)
- Ideally, I would be able to point it at a NAS, which I don't have now.
- The plan I was on was 10 computers, unlimited data, for 4 years @ $429. Lower is better, but I am willing to pay in that range.

Across my machines, I probably have about 1TB of bulk storage and 10 or so machines w/, say, 60GB backups each.

So far, I was considering a backup system that dumps to Amazon glacier (but I will need to find a good software client, yet to be identified and I have some concerns on retrieval costs) or maybe BitTorrent Sync. Any feelings about either of those? Any other suggestions that people are happy with?

Comment Re: It's fine, I just won't watch anymore (Score 1) 195

I am not the OP but i do agree, largely. I would split it into two phenomenon:
1. At 15, it is much easier to be impressed. you have less experience of what the world has to offer. In my day (80s kid) there was a lot less choice so you watched and re-watched the same things until you loved them. You had a lot more free time to watch. And, importantly, you are selecting which groups you will be part of. Your media consumption both influences and is influenced by that but I feel teens latch onto cultural icons and make them really important to their emerging identity. While I still liked Ferris Bueller, as I started showing movies I remember loving to my kids, many of them were really pretty bad.

2. The other reason you remember the movies as being great is that pain has a short memory. You don't remember all the crap that was released and you either saw or managed to avoid. Same w/ the 19th century, not everybody was writing war and peace but the best things stand the test of time. Our consumption is only the best of the best of what was released in the past.

Comment Re:Pipeline protests make no sense (Score 1) 203

No, that's fair. They have every reason to organize and act against the placement of this pipeline due to our history.

I was noting that rather than the rhetoric against pipelines in general, we should be examining how to make our best method of fossil fuel transportation fit for purpose.

Comment Re:Pipeline protests make no sense (Score 1) 203

Nothing is perfect but rail is objectively safer.
https://www.fraserinstitute.or...

You suggest that there are pipeline leakages. There must be but surely this becomes an oversight/maintenance problem.

The oil still has to move from A -> B. Trains/Trucks have far more risk than pipelines.

If you want to abstain from usage, fine. But until you do, you need your fix to get to you.

It would be the height of hypocrisy to type on your plastic keyboard on your electric computer in your heated home and pretend to be against fossil fuels.

Comment Re: Handset maker is only half the battle (Score 1) 162

As much as I am not a fanboi, this was where Jobs was really good. Ramming through entrenched interests to get what he wanted. Apple forced the carriers not to bundle crapware and repackage the OS, a side effect of that is that they can push their updates promptly. Google didn't and the carriers still hold the keys to the devices, to our detriment.

Comment Re:"What Difference Does It Make?!?!?!" (Score 1) 704

There is no such person that could 'soundly beat him' because most people just vote party line with little more concern than the D or R. You can see this on both sides but primarily R has nominated somebody who stands against much of what everything the party has said for the last couple dozen years and yet, the vast majority of people, the media and the party machinery mostly just fell into line behind him.

Comment Handset maker is only half the battle (Score 1) 162

The vendor is only half the battle (well, one third). Now that google is putting out monthly updates, even users of handset makers that push them along monthly (Samsung) don't usually get the updates. The carrier is also involved. So unless all three, google, Samsung and, say, vodafone, all move the patches along, there is going to be a huge lag in getting these devices patched. Sooner or later, somebody isgoing to take good advantage of this hole. I can only hope it doesn't hurt too bad.

It only makes sense b/c, really, we all wait with bated breath for the fantastic bloatware apps that _need_ to be installed to certify it for the provider's network.

Comment Re:I'm not renewing prime this year... (Score 1) 79

I had a similar thing where I sold an item and the buyer didn't like it. I said fine, send me the item and I will refund but they just complained to paypal and got their money refunded while they still had the item. I had no recompense. Pissed me off enough to make me avoid paypal as much as possible for the last 15 years though.

Comment Re:Single sign on is a pita (Score 1) 79

Can anyone please tell me how to break single sign on on android?

It isn't really hard. sign out and click the link below sign on that says 'sign on as a different user'.

Why do I know? I have two accounts w/ the same username and different passwords that amazon wouldn't combine for me. somehow when my first kindle was bought it didn't go in under the same account. Real pita but I had bought a bunch of kindle books before I realized the problem and have ended up keeping the two accounts since. Wasn't a problem they combined single sign on on android but they fixed the problem shortly there after.

What kind of WTF in the user management allows two accounts w/ the same username is a mystery to me.

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