Mac OS X Computer Hard Drive Data Backup Freeware

July 20, 2009 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · Comment
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Mathusalem is a robust and un-intrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool. This is perhaps the best Mac Time Machine alternative.

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Mathusalem is complementary to Apple’s own backup software Time Machine. What makes Mathusalem unique is the ability to backup automatically one or more directories of your choice to remote servers ensures extra safety of your most important data. This remote server can be Amazon or your own backup server somewhere far away.

Be aware that Mathusalem is not designed to “clone” an entire file system or a subportion of it, meaning to say you are not able to restore your system only your files. The software is optimally coded to handle everyday simple backups.

Amazon S3 – The Best Offsite Disk to Disk Remote Backup Software

May 22, 2009 · Filed Under Web Application & Review · Comment
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Amazon S3 - The Best Offsite Disk to Disk Remote Backup Software

Looking for a cheap and reliable offsite data backup software and service? Dislike remote online backup software because you have large files and it would take days to transfer all the files? Have you heard of Amazon S3 Remote Disk to Disk Offsite Backup Software/Service? They’ve just launch a new program where you ship your own physical hard drive to Amazon via post, once they receive the USB hard drive or SATA hard disk, they will upload all the data onto their Amazon S3 server. When the task is done, they will ship the hard disk back to you.

AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. AWS transfers your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity.

The limited beta currently supports importing data into Amazon S3 buckets in the US. Support for export and EU buckets will be added in the coming months. To be considered for beta participation, click on the “Sign Up for AWS Import/Export” button.

This is possibly the best remote disk to disk backup software for those with large files, such as a photographer or those involved in multimedia creation. Once the files are uploaded onto your Amazon cloud account, you should be able to access the files from any S3 client. What are the additional charges?

Amazon charges USD 80 per storage device.
USD 2.49 per hour for data loading

The beauty of this service is if your local copy does goes bad, you can retrieve all your lost data from Amazon S3 by downloading them, however if the data is simply too large, Amazon will transfer the data onto a portable storage device upon your request for a small fee. Then again, what is the whole point? Won’t it make more sense to have your own backup server?