I’ve got 6 external hard drives totaling 2.7TB of storage, and I have about 1.2TB free. My music only takes up 67GB and I use two of the hard drives for backup, and one dedicated to my work (and since I never delete anything, a few of them are just filled with junk that I need to clean out).
Even with two drives dedicated to backup, there’s no real way to sync my iTunes music across the two computers I have. I’ve multiple ways to do it, but they all just never seem to work right. (Slow response, pauses while playing, etc.)
Thanks to a DreamHost blog post, I got to find out about Bandwagon. It’s essentially an iTunes backup and sync service that allows you to backup to Amazon’s S3 or an FTP server.
They’re doing a promotion now where Dreamhost customers get a free year of Bandwagon, and since I had nothing to loose, and 500GB on my Dreamhost account to spare, I signed up for it.
Bandwagon is as of right now in the process of uploading my whole iTunes library (8672 items) to my Dreamhost account. I think that’s pretty neat. I’ve used my Dreamhost account in the past and still use it now to backup my iPhoto library, so I think it’s going to be pretty neat to have my iTunes library backed up there as well.
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August 14th, 2007 at 6:33 PM
Actually, we are thinking about integrating iPhoto to bandwagon as well. A lot of people have been requesting this feature, and we’re currently researching how to do this. So far, the research says, we can integrate iPhoto t to Bandwagon
August 15th, 2007 at 2:15 AM
That’d be a great integration! (actually I’m waiting for the next beta release because the current one has been crashing on me
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