On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 18:17, Zachary Klein wrote:
IMHO, the raving against SpiderOak is a bit silly
No kidding... Jim: 1. No one says you have to use it, install it or launch the application. It's not mandatory nor does it harvest anything off your computer. 2. It's not anywhere near as scary as you make it out to be. 3. You choose what data to backup to SpiderOak if you set up an account. You have 100% control over what it stores, how often it stores it, file size limits and so on. 4. The data is encrypted and SpiderOak do not have your password any more than a webmail provider, the openSUSE Wiki, or Novell have your password. 5. The only way someone can add files to your SpiderOak backup is if... you invite them to a share, or.. they have your password. That's not really any different than someone having access to your machine or your server (via ssh for example). 6. It's not designed to be a 100% backup of every single file you have including all your personal data, your banking data, your birth certificate, the kitchen sink, and anything else you think of. It's a tool for backing up and/or sharing the data YOU want to put into it... nothing more. If the whole online or cloud computing thing bothers you this much, then you're going to have to disconnect from the Internet completely and throw away your mobile phone (eg Sony provides online backup of all your contacts from your Android phone... so they have a complete record of who/what etc.). Google Docs... Amazon S3... Ubuntu One.. Facebook... Linked In... etc etc... all pieces of the online world we're a part of. You can either manage what's available online as best you can or withdraw from it entirely. SpiderOak is a good balance between using cloud storage, and managing what's stored online. SpiderOak really is a decent product that does the job reliable, transparently and efficiently. The developers are easy to contact and are very responsive to issues and problems with SpiderOak.
I particularly am fond of their "deduplication" strategy - SO is able to store any number of identical files in the space of one - all contiguous data blocks are stored only once. A marvelous concept, and it's saved me a lot of money.
This is a rather neat idea. I've put it to the test a few times pulling down copies of documents from the history.. and it works.. I get the document version I want... yet on the server side it's taking up only a small percentage (ie barely any) more than the current file size. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org