CrashPlan and a few links
Mood: calm
Posted on 2011-11-17 10:22:00
Tags: reviews links
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I checked in on The Wirecutter and noticed they said good things about CrashPlan, a backup service, including the fact that they have an honest-to-goodness Linux client! After installing it and reading more about it, I signed up and couldn't be happier. Prices are cheap, it seems to just work, and you can encrypt your data with a password so even they can't recover it (this is a good sign they're doing it right). $25 a year for 10 GB of storage sounds just perfect for backing up my source code! (they also have an unlimited plan...)

In this month's Atlantic, there was a long and scary article about Pakistan, probably our least friendly "ally".

A reminder: Obama says waterboarding is torture, and he's against it. (unlike some of the Republican candidates)

A beautiful five-minute time-lapse video of Earth from the ISS.

Life without stimulus - when the UK took austerity measures instead of a stimulus, their GDP is still way below where it was pre-recession (while ours is around the same). (thanks David!)

A new Rick Perry ad is both inaccurate _and_ grammatically incorrect!

The story of a last minute trip to St. Louis to try to see Game 7 of the World Series.

4 comments

Comment from brittongregory:
2011-11-17T11:30:30+00:00
I'm on CrashPlan as well, though I didn't take on the subscription. If I had known you were checking it out, I would have volunteered to be your off-site storage (especially if it's only 10GB). CrashPlan makes that sort of thing easy. :)

That said, $25 for a year is a good deal!

Comment from gregstoll:
2011-11-17T14:31:39+00:00
Ah, cool! I'd be happy to let you backup to my server as well...got plenty of space :-)

(oh, and I got my Willpower book back - know the next time you/Liz will see me/Andrew?)

Comment from spchampion:
2011-11-17T13:45:57+00:00
I had no idea Crashplan supported Linux now. Thanks for pointing that out! That dramatically changes a lot of things about my storage plans (since I'm running out on my server).

Comment from gregstoll:
2011-11-17T14:54:19+00:00
Glad to be of service! The Linux app works well, although I did have some issues with it not being able to connect (the backup process was connecting fine), which I think were happening because I forgot to run it as root.

This backup was done by LJBackup.