S3 Backup – Part II

Ok. So I have been uploading my music to S3 for the past 3 days and it has eventually all loaded up there. I have not quite figured out why it does not use all of the bandwidth available but since I actually wanted to do some work this week it was not bad thing!S3 Backup is really nice. The wireless network flaked out on me a few times and I had to restart the backup. Thankfully S3 backup does an inventory of what is on the local machine and compares it to a continually updated DB on the S3 side. This means that you can restart backups from the point you list connectivity which is REALLY useful.My Music is around 7.5 GB which means that to get it into S3 cost me $0.97. Doing the math on the ongoing costs with the 7.5 GB it will cost me a whopping 80 cents a month to have it backed up. You just cannot beat that.Next on the list is 15GB of pictures and then 30GB of home video so I am guessing that the ongoing monthly cost to backup our family data will be less than $5. Well worth the money.The only thing that I would change is the speed of upload. I have not had time to figure out if it is S3 backup, S3 itself or simply just the upload speed that I have but I will!Thanks to Amazon and the guys at S3 backup for the good products/services. Having lost vital information in the past this is really a good thing for me…and I bet others.

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