Today I tried out Zotero 2.0 beta in combination with JungleDisk@S3. Zotero comes as a Firefox plug-in that allows you to gather and organize information sources, such as research papers and blog posts. You can also sync local files, e.g. PDF documents, to a WebDAV server. First I looked into free solutions, such as GMX Media Center or setting up a local WebDAV FTP server. However, I came to the conclusion that using JungleDisk and Amazon S3 would be much easier and pricing is also not too expensive ($2/month for a JungleDisk subscription plus Amazon’s prices for S3). Set-up cost me 10 minutes on my private Ubuntu laptop and another 10 minutes on my Vista work Desktop. Now I have everything accessible from anywhere + highly reliable back-up in Amazon’s infrastructure.
June 10, 2009 at 11:40 am |
There is a new kid on the block – online backup product for Windows called CloudBerry Online Backup. It is powered by Amazon S3 reliable and cost efficient storage. If you want to take part in beta sign up on the website http://cloudberrydrive.com What safer place to keep your files than Amazon’s servers?
July 22, 2009 at 7:03 am |
Interesting article. Backups are more important today then they have ever been in my opinion, if you loose your data and you cant recover it then your business is dead. Thanks again.