Operation: Gladiator cont. - iDrive

I'm having "OMG so fast" moments, as you do. They started with boot up and log on this morning.

Today: synchronisation and backup. Bandwidth is no longer a limiting factor (we haven't gone over our cap since the last increase) so I spent some time checking out the services in this list.

iDrive won on the following counts
- 5G free matches any of the others and will easily hold me until the Xmas/NY crunch is over and I can justify a years subscription (these things need to be staggered and there are several coming due in January already)
- Real-time backup can be toggled on or off - I've had a local real-time service operating for the last year and have decided it's not necessary (and something of a resource hog) most of the time. Daily backups will be adequate, but it's great to have the option.
- you can restore back 30 versions (plenty for a daily, maybe not if you save religiously and backup in real time) but the historical versions don't count towards your storage limit, which could be a huge space-saver and is generally awesome :D

The one thing I'd like is the ability to have multiple backup sets on different schedules, which is how I manage my local backups (set that up today as well, inasfar as I have data stores copied to the new system). But that may be part of the paid version - in any case it's not a deal breaker.

Good times

Spent most of the the day at Chez Homer, making a small contribution to mangling vizi's latest version of "Decline & Fall of the Galactic Empire". Was good fun.