archiving as opposed to backing up

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Sep 21 10:40:52 2004

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, John Foust wrote:

> Sure, a big IT company can throw SANs and admins at these problems,
> but the average Joe Homeuser or Jane Smallbiz can't.

This service managed to survive the dot-bomb:

http://www.xdrive.com/

It creates a drive letter on your system that is symbolically linked to
some storage space sitting on their servers.

Very cool, very handy. Might be a good solution for home or small
businesses to back up files off-site.

Hell, *I* should start using it!

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