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August 4, 2007
Map Drives to FTP Servers: NetDrive 4.1
I ran across this program a couple weeks ago and have been very impressed. So, here's the idea - I'm paying 7 bucks a month for 300 GIGS OF ONLINE STORAGE (insane amount indeed) through Bluehost.com (bless their hearts). Now, most providers throw those obscene amounts of storage around because they don't actually expect people to use it - I'm out to break that assumption. I have over 100 Gigs of digital pictures stored on a server at home, plus countless emails, work files, and so on. My worry? What if my house burns down...or the server crashes with an unrecoverable issue...I and my wife would be devistated at the loss. So, here's what I'm doing:
1. Use Netdrive 4.1 (yes, it's free) to map my X: drive to my bluehost FTP space
2. Run a scheduled backup (using Windows 2003 Server) once a month to back up all these priceless files to the X: drive
Eh? Not a bad plan...other than the fact that my internet connection will run slow for a couple days...errrr...weeks while the backup completes.
For those of you interested in getting this handy Netdrive 4.1 utility, just click here!
Posted by JC at August 4, 2007 12:32 PM
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Netdrive is not actually freeware. Better check the license.
Posted by: Steve Holle at August 4, 2007 6:17 PM
I do terabytes of backup of all my servers in less than 10hrs (just copying the modified files) by using rsync. I have never used it on windows but seems like it is a pretty neat solution. Google "rsync on windows".
Good luck!
Penpen
Posted by: Penpen at August 7, 2007 8:47 PM
So kewl! Many thanks for the great URL.
Posted by: Marc at August 14, 2007 7:03 PM
This is awesome. Many thanks for the post
Posted by: Lucian at August 20, 2007 7:42 PM