Dao Hoang Son

I read two articles today: One:  We’re F****D, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink Two:  How I Fired Myself. These paragraphs stood out: One I remember Hotmail’s CEO Sabeer calling us all in a room. “Hey, Rex (the COO), how long will it take to restore the email from the tape backups?” And I’ll never forget his answer: “Um, those got really expensive, so we stopped doing them about a month ago.” Gulp. Long … painful … silence. Two I found myself on the phone to Rackspace, leaning on a desk for support, listening to their engineer patiently explain that backups for this MySQL instance had been cancelled over 2 months ago. Ah. God, that's painful to read. It gave me chills... Note to self: Backup all the thing. Never cancel backup services. And test backups to make sure they work!

BitTorrent Labs has just released a their Sync experiment . The tag line is "Automatically sync files via secure, distributed technology.", directly aimed to compete with Dropbox, Google Drive, Mega and the likes. Using BitTorrent technology, the folders will be synchronized across devices via p2p protocol without any central server -- which is a plus, you and only you own your data. Additionally, the data is encrypted with a private key so you can be sure it is safe. The first thing I thought when I first heard of the idea is using it to do server backup. Amazingly, the team behind BTSync provided binaries for a wide range of platforms: Windows XP SP3+, Mac OSX 10.6+, Linux with kernel 2.6.16+ in 4 different architectures ARM/PPC/i386/x86_64. Installed the app for Mac OSX: Connected devices. I only have one other device. Folders to sync. BTSync supports unlimited number of folders. Files that are being sync'd. A simple logging system. Pre...