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Geek Culture / Online File Backup

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Killswitch
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 06:32
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I've just had a few thoughts about this and I might consider setting up a online file backup service. I'd like to ask a few questions first:

1) Do you/have you/would you use this or a similar service?
2) What sort of space would you require?
3) Backup files online or send a hardcopy?
4) How does £5 per GB sound?

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Jeku
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 07:21
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No point anymore--- archive.org just announced their free backup server for life.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/1916206&tid=188&tid=95

Their server is slashdotted now, though.


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TravisP
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 07:33
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1) No.
One reason, I can make hard copies myself and the other, i'm on dial-up.

Note: The above I didn't say, your just crazy.

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Killswitch
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 08:27
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Oh well, another money making scheme down the tube.

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GothOtaku
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Posted: 22nd Mar 2005 13:05
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Quote: " Oh well, another money making scheme down the tube."

Not necessarily if you provided encryption and security, large file sizes, a fast upload speed, multiple offsite hardcopy backups, and marketed it to buisnesses that need to keep their data backedup and/or private you could make some money off of that. It is a lot easier to schedule a cron job to backup stuff over a network vs. doing it by hand on with removable media.
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