Day: August 21, 2013

Geek Software of the Week: Redo Backup and Recovery!

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Redo Backup and Recovery!

The Geek Software of the Week is truly useful and handy! Check out the features, and keep in mind that all this is completely free and Open Source!

Redo Backup and Recovery!

“Redo Backup and Recovery is so simple that anyone can use it. It is the easiest, most complete disaster recovery solution available. It allows bare-metal restore. Bare metal restore is not only the best solution for hardware failure, it is also the ultimate antivirus: Even if your hard drive melts or gets completely erased by a virus, you can have a completely-functional system back up and running in as little as 10 minutes.

All your documents and settings will be restored to the exact same state they were in when the last snapshot was taken. Redo Backup and Recovery is a live CD, so it does not matter if you use Windows or Linux. You can use the same tool to backup and restore every machine. And because it is open source released under the GPL, it is completely free for personal and commercial use.

More Features, Less Complex

Redo Backup has the most features coupled with the simplest, most user-friendly interface:

  • Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute
  • No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick
  • Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines
  • Automatically finds local network shares
  • Access your files even if you can’t log in
  • Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
  • Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers
  • Live CD download size is only about 250MB
  • Over 750,000 downloads”

Box Doubles It’s Free Space Offering!

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I have a Box account, however, I don’t use it as much as my DropBox account. However, I may have to look at it again!

Box doubles down on free space; adds new SMB option

“Box introduced some big changes to its pricing model on Wednesday, adding a few new schemes — not to mention a (bigger) freebie.

The free storage space option for individual users is getting bumped from just 5GB to 10GB.

The next level up is a new $5 plan dubbed ‘Starter.’ Aimed at teams as well as small businesses, this option supports up to 10 users with 100GB to share.

The $15 per user Business plan remains relatively unchanged with up to 1000GB of cloud storage space to share with three or more colleagues.

Moving higher up the scale, things are being shifted around a bit for Box’s core user base: the enterprise.

Aptly named ‘Enterprise,’ the fourth subscription plan consists of unlimited cloud storage space with a 5GB file size upload limit at a rate of $35 per user.

The top-tier selection is referred to as ‘Elite.’ Much like luxury goods that simply come with taglines saying ‘Price Available Upon Request,’ this is a customized cloud platform plan that lacks a standard (let alone publicized) cost. The amenities include unlimited storage space, no limits on file sizes when uploading, a free test environment, and unlimited use of Box Content APIs.

Box’s customer base already stands at roughly 180,000 businesses and more than 20 million individual users overall.

Certainly, the business world has been Box’s primary target up to this point, separating it from Dropbox, Google Drive and similar personal cloud storage offerings.

But the bottom two plans (extra free space plus the Starter option) are bound to draw more attention away from those competitors too.”