Revision control systems (Wikipedia) manage multiple versions or revisions of documents. It is often used by software developers to manage their source code, but it can be useful for anyone. Have you ever made a change to a document, saved it, and later wished you had an earlier version of it? If so then you [...]
Read more »There are a many choices for online storage. However, many of them only give you a gigabyte or two for free. This is where Microsoft’s Skydrive is changing the game: They give you 25 GB of free online storage space with a 50 MB limit of individual files.
You need a Windows Live ID to sign [...]
Lifehacker has a story about how to use QuickPar to burn more reliable discs. Often you don’t use all the space on discs you burn. Use QuickPar to fill this leftover space with parity data. If some of the files on the disc get corrupted (which often happens as the discs get older), chances are [...]
Read more »Lifehacker has a large feature comparison chart for online storage services. They list some 13 services. However, they only list the ones that have a free trial which means that my personal favorite Jungle Disk (which I wrote about here) is not listed.
Read more »For a long time I have been looking at using online storage to backup my data. My main concerns were the reliability of the company providing the storage, and the privacy of the data. Enter Jungle Disk. It is a small company with the right philosophy: Encrypt the data locally using state-of-the-art encryption techniques, and [...]
Read more »Karen Kenworthy has a wonderful little tool called Karen’s Replicator. It is an automated backup program that will backup files, directories, even entire drives. Karen’s Replicator copies selected files from one drive/folder to another. Source and Destination folders can reside anywhere on your network.
Options include repeated copies at intervals as short as a few minutes, [...]
