12-05-2005, 06:30 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 792
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Jason and Dave's ThoughtCast - December 5, 2005
This time, the ThoughtCast strays from just being Pocket PC or even mobile device related. Jason wanted to talk about a very important general computing topic, backing up. While the solutions do interface with mobile devices, they are more about keeping your data safe and synchronized so you can know it is safe and access it from anywhere.
Show notes:
� Common Methods for Backup
� Hosted Exchange: 4Smartphone [Affiliate]
� Accessing Files: FolderShare
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NOTE FROM JASON: Since the recording of this ThoughtCast several weeks ago, FolderShare has been acquired by Microsoft. So the good news is that the service is now free - it may not be free forever, but for now this is a great way to try out the service. The bad news, at least for those of us that have been using FolderShare for quite some time, is that the latest client software is actually less featured than previous versions. The ability to synchronize only the parts of files that have changed has been removed because it was based on an open-source library that has since been removed from the product. One can hope this feature will return, because having to sync a 2GB archive PST file to several computers every time Outlook is opened and closed again...is a pain. ;-) I still recommend FolderShare highly for file distribution and data backup.
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12-05-2005, 09:30 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,725
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Another great ThoughtCast. 
I'm very interested in FolderShare after listening to this...especially since it's free.  Jason, I think you need to patent your idea for aggregate distributed storage.  I'm interested in an FTP backup/sync program as well, but for a different reason. My college network storage is accessible via FTP, and I've had a hard time keeping things in sync with the files on my laptop. I know there's some other programs that can do FTP sync, but I'm more interested in SFTP sync for the added security. It would be great if FolderShare could do SFTP syncs as well. Maybe some day.
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