Showing posts with label Back Up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back Up. Show all posts

Introducing AWS Import/Export for Physical Data Transfer for Backup

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If you have large amounts of data to load and an Internet connection with limited bandwidth, That would be too time consuming. There are alternatives available like Mozy which gives you chipper option to storage your files but if you have too large amount of data then uploading and restoring can take time. To solve this problem Amazone simple storage service introduce AWS Import/ Export beta

The concept is to back up your 100 GB of drive in Amazone, Process goes like this
  • After that Email data loading instructions to AWS in a simple manifest file that includes your Amazon S3 bucket, AWS Access Key ID, and return shipping address. You’ll receive an e-mail back with a unique identifier for the job.
  • Securely identify and authenticate the device by digitally signing your manifest file and job identifier with your AWS Secret Access Key and placing that signature file on the device.
  • Ship your device along with its interface connectors, power supply and a packing slip to AWS.
  • When your package arrives at AWS, it will be processed and securely transferred to an AWSAWS Import/Export station.
  • Your data load typically begins the next business day after arrival at AWS.
  • After the data load completes, the device will be detached and returned to you via standard ground shipping.
Acording to Amazone the time required to prepare and ship a portable storage device to AWS can be a small percentage of the time it would take to transfer your data over the Internet. If loading your data over the Internet would take a week or more, you should consider using AWS Import/Export.

AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. AWS transfers your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon’s high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. For significant data sets, AWS Import/Export is often faster than Internet transfer and more cost effective than upgrading your connectivity. The limited beta currently supports importing data into Amazon S3 buckets in the US. Support for export and EU buckets will be added in the coming months.

Right now Amazon charging $80.00 per storage device handled so it is advisable that you use large storage device for back up instead of many mini storage devices plus $2.49 per data-loading-hour. Partial data-loading-hours are billed as full hours. so for 100 GB of data back up would take round about $85 you can use the calculator for cost counting. However Data transferred between AWS Import/Export and Amazon S3 is free of charge

Now something happen to your local data storage so to get back the back up you can back it up via web but if you have a large amount of data then Amazon can transfer the data to a portable storage device and deliver it to your home.


Back Up your Data with Nero's BackItUp

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Everyone love there data & everyone should back up their data, but a surprisingly small percentage of people actually do that. When the big crash finally comes or you experience a hard-drive failure, that's usually the time you realize you should have been backing up all along. There are a many of programs that make it easier to regularly back up your hard drive, but to do that there are many step process to get the job done.

BackItUp from Nero released yesterday, to make the whole process easier & simpler for everyone. Using an intuitive tabbed interface and simple controls, just about anyone can pick up BackItUp and Burn and start a automatic regular schedule for backups or folder syncing in only a few clicks. The software even offers the option of sending you an e-mail notification when automated backups are complete. You can sync your data or can get or restore data via this easy to use software. it also capable to recover data from damage disc or hard drives.


BackItUp and Burn also includes full burning capabilities with its all in one burning suite, It let you burn your music, videos, data, and pictures, Docs, Critical data to CD, DVD, Blue-ray Discs or FTP, memory cards so you have a hard copy of your most important personal files. e for a year.

This program requires the latest Microsoft .NET Framework in order to run. you will be prompted to download during install. You also will have the choice of installing the Ask Toolbar during install.

Nero also offers a free Gigabyte of online storage for a three-month trial, but after that you'll need to buy a subscription. There are three tiers to choose from. if you want to store more data. You can pay as little as $7.49 for 5GB of storage for three months, or as much as $59.99 for 25GB of storage. For Software user need to pay $39.99. Well I'm not sure about the paying model Nero introduce for storage but user can try for online backup alternatives like Mozy for storage.


Ma.gnolia is not able to recover members bookmarks

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Few days ago Ma.gnolia's server lost data because of file system corruption & lack of back up and after that ma.gnolia team is working to recover the data and they also appoint a data recovery team to able to extract the data from damage servers but till nothing they able to get..However website introduced a recovery tool and and also create a set of other tools from where may be user able to get their data. Lerry Halff, Founder of Ma.gnolia is giving progress updates to users on the recovery project via the website and twitter & Get satisfaction. Lerry also appear in Citizen Garden podcast to share more in depth details behind the breakdown.



Well, I appreciate the efforts of ma.gnolia team and they are very concern for user data but now after this incident it's time to learn a lesson & think again, now a days people mostly using 3rd party services in all respective areas like images, videos, bookmarks, emails,RSS and much more but what will happen if some services will go down like this? what can people do about it? Well according to me do a regular backup to avoid these kind of situation. Back up for your local system is also important..use services like Mozy, Livedrive (here HP's upline is shutting down) are recommended and other way is create a mirror backup for different services, like for images people are using Flickr and for mirror backup similar use other services like Picasa, smugmug and vice versa. For bookmarks user can use Foxmarks, Google Bookmarks, delicious also try to export your bookmarks frequently and also save one copy in your local hard drive and one copy in compact disk.

From now we also going to post lessons about How To so that will guide people to use different services and software and people will able to educate their knowledge.