iDisk vs. XXX?

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As you may have seen in other posts, i have started using iDisk as a backup medium (I work directly from the offline iDisk and let it do its syncing/backup in the background)

this sounds good, but I have 2 issues:

• outrageously slow
• some inconsistencies (spent a bit of time moving the files about, and it seems to have kindof merged some of the old folder layout with the new - had it backed up in another local folder so not a big deal but the fact that this even happened has lost iDisk a few trust points...)

So, was wondering about other options? - is Dropbox a viable alernative (in its 50GB guise) for solid backup? or are there more focused applications maybe?
 
I'll take a look at Transmit (in fact i recently installed a demo version just to have a play) - in terms of using as an FTP i think Forklift on the whole is a fair bit better (especially since 1.6 came out) but if there is an advantage relating to iDisk interaction maybe i'd consider using both...
 
EVH said:
Actually going to trial it again. If it's rubbish I'm calling my mammy :p

http://www.binarynights.com/
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good on ya :)

for a very minimalistic, but still very usable interface try these options:

• turn off the toolbar (use shortcuts)
• turn off the sidebar and use ESC for a popup version (EDIT: or the tiny arrow at the top left of each pane)
• turn on "show tab bar" - very useful
• go to "show view options" and pop it down to 11pt - much nicer :)

then get used to the clone panel, flip panel shortcuts and you're good to go ;) - i dont actually use finder anymore...
 
wush said:
JungleDisk is extremely solid. Nicely configurable as well (Manual backup, multiple scheduled backups, encryption, file versioning, ..)

They have Mac, Windows and Linux clients. I really like it - my computers could go up in flames any day and I'll lose no data :)
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quick question about this... i've had a read, and it seems pretty decent, but i'm a bit confused about its auto-backup facilities, can it do it all out of the box cuz it mentions you can use third party sync apps such as rsync?
 
Fair enough matey each unto their own...

so, tried this Amazon S3 thing (also downloaded a trial of JungleDisk to latch onto it, but tbh it didn't feel like a very polished app) - and am trying to give it a go via Forklift...

now this issue i have is with the S3 buckets not forklift, but how finnicky is the naming system? whenever i try to create a bucket, it says "Server response: The specified bucket is not valid."

the only way i got it to create anything was when i got frustrated and typed a great big stream of random letters as the name :confused:

whats the deal with it? no spaces alowed maybe (despite the example showing "my bucket")?
 
its a shame really, a lot of us have mobileme hence have this idisk feature but just dont use it due to it being that poor...

how can apple have it so wrong? maybe they should use amazon s3 storage like dropbox do...
 
so with these new sync issues sorted, would you consider iDisk a reliable way of working... at the mo i'm still using the local idisk and manual syncing every night, but i'm not sure if i should be working like this...

as a side note, i synced, then deleted something, then resynced and instead of taking the last action as the master, it re-downloaded the things i had deleted :confused:

must say, would be a great tool if it just worked right and at the right speed :(
 
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