Links from Hanselminutes 349

As if I had nothing better to do (I'm supposed to be cleaning the bathroom), I collected a bunch of links whilst listening to the Hanselminutes podcast episode 349. This show was one of the Hanselminutia episodes where Scott chats with Richard Campbell. They were talking about a lot of home automation stuff that's interesting to me so I gathered links to follow up on later (after the bathroom is clean, of course).

• Hanselminutes Technology Podcast - Hanselminutiae-eleven with Richard Campbell
• Scott Hanselman - Nest Thermostat Review 2nd Generation
• Synology Network Attached Storage
• Synology - ReleaseNote DS1511+
• Synology - DS1512+
• CrashPlan
• Box - Secure content-sharing
• Dropbox
• Scott Hanselman - Backup Strategies - How to set up CrashPlan Cloud Backup headless on a Synology NAS
• WiFi SD Cards: Eye-Fi Memory Cards: Wireless Photo and Video Uploads from your Camera
• Windows Storage Spaces:
  • Ars Technica - Storage Spaces explained: a great feature, when it works
  • MSDN Blogs - Virtualizing storage for scale, resiliency, and efficiency
  • MSDN Blogs - Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces
  • MSDN Blogs - Two new modules related to Storage Spaces for Windows PowerShell
• Gmvault: gmail backup
• Scott Hanselman - Windows 8, Step 0 - Turn on continuous backups via File History
• Plex - A Complete Media Solution
• Foscam.us - Wireless IP Cameras
• Wikipedia - Arduino
• Arduino - HomePage
• Wikipedia - Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi
• Supermechanical : Twine - Listen to your world, talk to the Internet
• Apparently Twine was funded by a Kickstarter: Twine - Kickstarter

SynchronEX

SynchronEX - Advanced File Synchronizer Software

"SynchronEX enables robust multi-directional file tree synchronization and backup over local & network paths in any situation: From laptop synchronization to scheduled periodic backup to incremental website upload."

SyncBack

2BrightSparks: Compare SyncBack Freeware, SyncBackSE, and SyncBackPro

SyncToy

Microsoft Download Center: SyncToy 2.1

My Digital Life: Schedule SyncToy to Run and Automatically and Repetitively

Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

Backup Central - Dissecting Time Machine & Replacing It With rsync

"With rsync (which is built into both MacOS, Linux, & FreeBSD, and can be installed on Windows) and a little shell scripting, you can mimic everything but the GUI and you don't need no stinking sparse files. I even wrote a little script that I'll share with you at the end of this post."

Must try this when I get some more storage.

gdocbackup

Project Hosting on Google Code - gdocbackup

"GDocBackup exports all documents from Google Documents to local hard-disk. Runs on NET 2.0 / Mono (Win, Linux and Mac)"

rsnapshot

rsnapshot

"rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems. Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals."

gdatacopier

gdatacopier on Google Code

"GDataCopier provides two command line utilities (the syntax of which largely resembles scp) that allow users to

* list documents on the Google document system
* export and import documents on the Google document system

Our target audience are system administrators (on Unix like platforms) who are looking to automate off site backups of their Google documents."

2BrightSparks: File Backup and Utility Software

2BrightSparks: File Backup and Utility Software

MozBackup

MozBackup - Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird

"MozBackup is a simple utility for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, Mozilla Suite and Netscape profiles."