Forget Your Flash Drive!
Friday, 13 February 2009 09:43
A while back I posted an article on encrypting your flash drive to keep the contents safe in case it is lost or stolen. Since then, I have tried out a bunch of new technologies that claim to make the flash drive as obsolete as the floppy disk. I tried Dropbox, Live Mesh and, for now, have settled on Syncplicity.
What does it do?
Syncplicity allows you to specify folders on your hard drive that would like to backup and access from remote computers. Once a folder is specified, all files within that folder will be uploaded to Synplicity folders. You can then install the Syncplicity software on as many computers as you like and you files will be downloaded to a folder you specify. Then, when a files is updated on any of the computers, the changes will be uploaded to Syncplicity and downloaded to the other computers keeping all your files sync'd.
Whenever you make changes to a file, Syncplicity stores the old version as well as the new version on its servers. This allows you to recover previous version after changes were made that you later decided you don't like. Syncplicity saves old version for 30 days.
Syncplicity also offers a pretty good web interface for the times you want to access a file, but do not want to install the program. The web interface is also used for restoring previous versions of a file as well as deleted files.
How much does it cost?
The first 2GB are free, after that, it's $9.99/50GB.
