Bandwagon backs up iTunes library

Lets say that it is 5 years or so until you lose your music due to a hard drive failure or whatever. That is $500 you could have put forth for your new music collection after the loss -- if it was ever going to happen in the first place. Much better to buy yourself a 500GB HD for $200 and back up your music, and whatever else you need as well.

So... let me get this straight... I'm supposed to upload all of the content that I purchased with my own money, to some guy's server I don't even know?

Uh... pass.

I wouldn't pay more than $50 for the pleasure of giving away my entire music collection. WTF? This is the single most ridiculous thing I've seen in at least 15 minutes.

Not to mention the week it would take to copy my large collection over the internet.

I will keep my own backup locally...Do these people think this is a good idea?

For users TOO STUPID to back up their tracks to CD (free), or to another drive (free minus cost of drive) or another computer (free), there is now a service where they must now actively back up their tracks AND pay for the privilege??

Oh yeah, that's a business model that will succeed. Sure.

after February 29th of what year - 2008? Is this all some kind of a plot by the people who changed Daylight Savings Time?

after February 29th of what year - 2008? Is this all some kind of a plot by the people who changed Daylight Savings Time?

Um, DST and Leap Years have nothing to do with each other.

Offsite backups, a bad idea? How do you figure?

I'm not "too stupid" to backup my tracks - I have 5 external hard drives. Guess what? Hard drives die. I don't like to keep backups on a drive more than a year old, so think about replacing a drive every year. Plus if my house burns down... bye bye music. So I've burned them to CD? Oh well... guess they're gone too.

Once you started it up it requires no interaction - it magically keeps your backups up to date.

As to where the data is being stored, it's being stored on S3. So I'd say it's fairly safe.

As to "giving away your entire music collection" how does that work?

Did anybody actually read anything about this product?

(Disclaimer: I have a year's free service, but even if I didn't I'd so be paying for this.)

Testudo Wrote: Um, DST and Leap Years have nothing to do with each other.

Guess what? Neither do February 29 and 2007. That was the point that appears to have cruised over the top of more than a few heads.