Hans-Christian Andersen
hans.andersen at phulse.com
Sat Mar 9 11:45:33 CST 2013
Hi mark, The pogoplug company provides two types of storage. You can either subscribe to their online storage, which is all in the cloud... This option requires a subscription fee. Or you can purchase a small device (as I did), which you connect to your home network. They aren't very expensive. About $40. Maybe less. And no subscription fee. Then you can connect up to 3 or 4 USB hard drives to it and that becomes your online storage which you can access from anywhere (but is within your control rather than being in the cloud). If you want DNLA, this is the option you want. You can also use it as a backup device, a bit like TimeMachine. The client software comes with backup features. If you have a lot of data but poor upload speed, you probably would be better off with the second option, as you will be transferring over your local network rather than via the web. I recommend the pogoplug device. It's very useful, small and low powered device, so you can just tuck it away somewhere and forget about it. The newer devices might even have new and improved features. I haven't checked lately. Hope this answers your questions. - Hans On 2013-03-09, at 4:53 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Hans, > > thats fantastic, I looked but completely missed the client software, which > is of course what I need. > > May I ask you advice about storage. I have one drive with almost a > terabyte of data. My upload speed is slow, but excluding upload speed, do > you think I could upload a terabyte ? Do you have any idea what your total > storage use is ? I know that pogoplug say it is unlimited, but I wonder > about pointing to my folder named "FileServer" > > thanks > > Mark > > > > > > On 8 March 2013 15:16, Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com>wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> >> My pogoplug mounts its drive like an ordinary local drive. I use it for 3 >> reasons primarily: >> >> 1. File storage in a shared location. I can now access these files from >> any machine any where in the world. >> >> 2 File sharing. Need to send a very big file to someone or a photo album? >> You can just share it directly from the pogoplug in terms of a web link. >> It's also easy to manage what things you've shared. >> >> 3. DNLA. The pogoplug device supports dnla, so it appears as a media >> server on the network and so your media box, like my playstation3 picks up >> its presence and let's me stream movies, pictures and music from it. >> >> - Hans >> >> >> On 2013-03-08, at 2:06 AM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello Hans, >>> >>> On the basis that 1) you have to drag and drop and 2) you cannot drag >>> folders, what do you use Pogoplug for ? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 8 March 2013 00:48, Hans-Christian Andersen <hans.andersen at phulse.com >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Looks like owncloud has progressed a bit since last i checked. I'll try >> it >>>> out on a vm and, if its stable, might throw it on my server. I'm >> otherwise >>>> quite content with my pogoplug though. >>>> >>>> - Hans >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2013-03-07, at 4:38 PM, "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: >>>> >>>>> If you are on a budget, have your own business, intranet, want to have >> a >>>>> secure and reliable Cloud (and that doesn't necessarily mean being >>>>> financially tied Amazon, Microsoft and others, never knowing if your >>>> backups >>>>> have been done or the site is being maintained) >>>>> >>>>> So why not build your own for family, friends and/or business. Here is >> a >>>>> very viable option that you can design on your own equipment: >>>>> >>>>> https://owncloud.org/ >>>>> >>>>> Check out the features and the control you will have. :-) >>>>> >>>>> And why not install it on your Debian/Ubuntu servers/stations: >> http://smashingweb.info/owncloud-4-released-install-owncloud-on-ubuntu-12-04 >>>>> / >>>>> >>>>> Terminal alert: You are going to have to key in a few lines on the >>>> terminal >>>>> (command line interface) But Alt-Ctrl-T, cut and paste from the web >> site >>>>> should be as hard as it gets. >>>>> >>>>> Note you will need Apache, MySQL and PHP5 for the base setup. Though >> the >>>>> install from the website might be very straight forward it might be >> best >>>> to >>>>> take no chances and previously install the latest greatest versions of >>>> the >>>>> pre-requisites: >>>>> >>>>> sudo apt-get install taskel >>>>> sudo taskel install lamp-server >>>>> sudo apt-get install php5-curl >>>>> sudo apt-get install php5-gd >>>>> >>>>> Now you are good to start with the suggested installation method and if >>>> you >>>>> are using the Ubuntu 12.04 Linux. >>>>> >>>>> Oh yes and most important. You have clients for Windows and Mac as well >>>> as >>>>> Linux...and for the cherry on the cake...the clients runs on all your >>>>> mobiles too. >>>>> >>>>> Jim >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> dba-Tech mailing list >>>>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>>>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>>>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> dba-Tech mailing list >>>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dba-Tech mailing list >>> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >>> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >>> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dba-Tech mailing list >> dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com