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IBackup has announced a new browser-based management tool for their online backup for Linux systems, allowing you to control your backups from any web-enabled device.
The Linux version of IBackup performs incremental backups of your data files in a secure manner. From the web interface, the user selects the files to backup and schedules the backups. Once files are securely transferred to the IBackup servers, they can then be shared with other users.
IBackup also offers online backup through the command line via rsync.
For more information or to signup, visit IBackup.com
If you’re backing up your computer with IBackup, you can now stream your MP3 collection, wherever you are. IBackup’s Media Gallery shows your backed up media files (like mp3, mp2, mov, mpeg, mpga, mpg, mpe, wav, avi, aif, aiff, au, midi, asf, wmv, wma) and gives you the option to stream them online. This means you can backup your MP3 collection from home to IBackup, then stream it to your computer in the office.
IBackup’s Media Gallery also supports streaming of video files, as well as photo galleries automatically created from your GIF, JPG, or TIFF digital photos.
With IBackup’s sharing capabilities, you can share your vacation photos, or use the slideshow to share images in a presentation.
With these new features, it’s time for us to update our IBackup review.
IBackup recently announced a new offering for small and medium businesses (SMBs) for long term archiving, which helps companies in certain industries meet archive compliance and regulatory requirements.
Using customized snapshots technology, data which was previously available from 10 to 30 days ago can now be recalled from many years back.
Previously, such technology was exclusive to companies using storage systems from IBM or Decho (Mozy‘s parent company). Now companies can get similar functionality for a fraction of the cost.
The new product offering is available immediately for Windows, Mac and Linux systems.
URL-shortening service Cligs found themselves the victim of Canadian cyber-terrorism as a malicious attacker changed all of the destination URLs to a single location.
Fortunately for Cligs, they had backups of their data! Way to go!
Unfortunately, the backups had been turned off since early May, “for some unknown reason” 
Backing up your data is only good if you keep those backups up-to-date! If you’re backing up your desktop with Carbonite and a backup doesn’t happen for a few days, you’ll get a reminder e-mail. Mozy, like IBackup, tells you when a backup was successfully completed, but not when there’s an error (Mozy will pop-up on your computer, IBackup can send you an email). Personally, I’d rather know when something goes wrong, rather than every time something works (it’s supposed to work every time!).
It’s been 4 hours since my backups last ran, but prior to that, it was 6 days – oops! Good thing I caught it. When’s the last time your backup successfully ran?
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