a how-do-you-do during today’s Apple presentation, but the new AirPort Extreme Base Station is probably the thing that I’m most excited about. Put the thing in a closet with my DSL modem, a USB 2 hub, a couple big USB HDs and my printer and suddenly the promise of a truly unwired office is a reality. My desk has no wires except for power, and I don’t have to give up outboard storage or printing to get it. And I can do my daily backup from my couch - I don’t have to go upstairs, plug in to the hub and then start my backup script.
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January 10th, 2007 | Apple • Backup • Wireless
The new web service
March 22nd, 2006 | Amazon • Backup • Data Storage
from Amazon, Amazon S3, is very interesting. It’s very simply API-addressable storage on the internet at a very low rate - 15 cents a month per Gig of storage and 20 cents per Gig of transfer. Am I wrong, or would it be trivially easy for the guy who made my backup software to integrate this into his software in some way so that I could have cheap overnight offsite backups? I know I could use Automator to upload a full backup image to Amazon S3 once a week - which is just what I plan to do.
