Episode 2: 2: Backup Vortex

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John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin tie up some loose ends from the TV show before talking about backups, the onus on Apple to make them work, Apple's past and present attempts, the failings of external hard drives, personal backup regimes, and online backups. Links for this episode: Moxi: a DVR competitor to TiVo The case for RAID: a 2005 blog post about the state of personal backups Time Machine in the Ars Technica review of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Backblaze [Affiliate Link Supports 5by5] Drobo Backblaze XML configuration file (edit at your own risk) StorageReview.com Sponsored by Postmark and Rackspace.

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