Comments on: Data backup service

By: Forrest Warthman

Forrest Warthman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:13:57 +0000

It would be very helpful if you could add the ability to save more than one copy of the files being backed up. For example, saving the last 2 or 3 copies would increase the reliability of back ups, because file owners sometimes modify or corrupt their files without knowing they did so.

By: Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:42:20 +0000

There is a bit of disk space used – mine’s using about 200 megs, with the java portion eating up the most. Applications these days are big, and it being a Java app doesn’t help with that portion.

That said, I’m not seeing anywhere near the memory utilization you are. Java’s big, but the whole thing is only using about 40 megs.

-Dane

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:34:45 +0000

So I thought I’d give this a try – seems like a pretty good deal. I downloaded the application, and WOW! (and not in a good way).

The application, once installed, consumes over 100meg of disk space. Kind of porky, for what it needs to do. But that’s not the half of it. While running, there are several processes that start up, consuming over 375meg of RAM! And exiting the program does not kill all the processes.

At least the uninstall was complete. As much as I hate to pass on a local backup solution, I feel the application code needs to be less bloated.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:53:13 +0000

It’s an appealing idea. I would rather keep backups on Sonic that on one of the external services – but since I’m Linux-only, currently unusable.

Ah well, 8GB USB keys are cheap and marginally faster to backup to than over the net.

By: TK

TK — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 03:40:16 +0000

I was very excited about this service until I see that the backup software supports only MacOS X 10.5 My two Macs still run 10.3 and 10.4. Please consider supporting older versions!

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By: Dane Jasper

Dane Jasper — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:13:01 +0000

Sun,

Performance for both backup and restore may be a bit better – and you can configure the rate that you’d like data backed up at using our tools.

-Dane

By: Sun

Sun — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:56:35 +0000

I’ve been using Mozy, but I feel comforted to have the data backed up nearby. Do we, by chance, get faster upload speeds for the data backup to sonic.net? Probably not, but I thought I ask…