The CloudFront S3 Browser is an Amazon S3 client. It comes in a free version, which it advertized as not supporting concurrent transfers, and a $30 Pro version that does support them. It doesn't offer the unattended operation of Goodsync, but I tested it anyway. I had two … [Read more...]

Next on my list of cloud storage providers was Google Drive. It's easy to sign up if you already have a Google account. Goodsync supports it. I set up a test backup job in Goodsync. Initially I got an error: It looks like Goodsync is changing the gdocs:// URL header to … [Read more...]

One often-overlooked limiter of Internet connection speeds is the firewall. When you test your connection speed, you're doing it through the firewall, of course, but unless you take a close look at the firewall itself, you won't know whether the limitation is your ISP, or the … [Read more...]

If you have a bunch of desktop or laptop computers with Dropbox installed, the default condition is that all folders are synched. You can control some things from the Dropbox web site, but what folders are synched isn't on of those things. If you're backing up to Dropbox, you … [Read more...]

Amazon S3 is not the first cloud backup solution I've tried. I experimented with Glacier first. However, I know believe that if Glacier plays any part in my eventual cloub backup solution, it will be in conjunction with, not instead of, S3, so it makes sense to talk about S3 … [Read more...]