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Remote backup reviews: XDrive, Box.Net fail to provide reliable remote storage solutions Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

And it does nothing to accomplish the goal of remote backup. But it does make Box.net the most expensive and inefficient local file copy utility ever. Thus, both XDrive and Box.net failed to work for me. Neither seems ready for prime time. Perhaps a new remote backup solution will appear in time, and I'll be glad to give it a whirl, but so far, I haven't found a remote backup solution that really works. For now, your best bet is probably to buy an external hard drive, copy your files to it, and mail it to a friend who can keep it in a safe place.

You have to choose files one at a time to upload them for remote backup. You can't just select a group of files and drag or copy them to a destination folder. And that makes remote backup impossibly tedious, unless of course you only want to back up a couple of files. Box.net claims that with the right Java, you can drag and drop files to be magically uploaded. I did not find this to be true. Even after upgrading to the latest version of Java, rebooting, and re-launching the Box.net service, every time I dragged and dropped files into the Box.

Perhaps a new remote backup solution will appear in time, and I'll be glad to give it a whirl, but so far, I haven't found a remote backup solution that really works. For now, your best bet is probably to buy an external hard drive, copy your files to it, and mail it to a friend who can keep it in a safe place. It's reliable, easy to figure out, and there's no monthly fee involved.

REPPED: As the market for remote backup solutions continues to expand, I thought I'd take a test drive of two of the most popular solutions: XDrive and Box.net. Sadly, neither service worked for me, and both appear to be buggy and severely lacking in several important areas. Here, I take a quick look at what's wrong with XDrive (www.XDrive.com) and Box.net (www.Box.net). XDrive promises to mount a virtual drive to your PC, allowing you to copy and paste files to that drive just like any other storage device.

And that makes remote backup impossibly tedious, unless of course you only want to back up a couple of files. Box.net claims that with the right Java, you can drag and drop files to be magically uploaded. I did not find this to be true. Even after upgrading to the latest version of Java, rebooting, and re-launching the Box.net service, every time I dragged and dropped files into the Box.net destination folder, my web browser got confused and thought I was trying to download those files.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

With this remote backup system in place, workers also have the option of deleting sensitive files from their hard drives completely if that level of security is needed. The Martus program also comes with a simple-to-use but nearly impossible-to-crack encryption feature for files and e-mail alike. A story from Colombia illustrates why Benetech's software is so invaluable to human rights workers. EQUITAS, the Colombian Interdisciplinary Team for Forensic Work and Psychosocial Services, has been recovering the remains of the many people who disappeared during Colombia's decades of complex and .

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