02/22/2007, 5:55pm, EST
Thursday, February 22nd
Bandwagon backs up iTunes library
Xackup has launched bandwagon, an online iTunes backup service offering unlimited storage. Bandwagon is designed for music lovers who forget to use rsync, ftp, or CDs + DVDs to backup music. The service is automatic, and features menubar controls with selective backups or full restorations. A queue manager supports free choice of which iTunes items are scheduled for backup, and users can pick artist icons from 'Alanis' to 'the Woz.' Bandwagon is $70 per year for unlimited storage until February 28th before midnight (PST), or $1 for a 30-day trial with unlimited storage. The service will cost $100 per year after February 29th, according to Xackup.
The new service also enables users to select which iTunes items are to be backed up without requiring any drag-and-drop operations, while a quick search feature uses Apple's Spotlight technology to sift through queued as well as backed up and missing items.
Bandwagon uses Amazon.com S3 service -- Amazon.com's Simple Storage Service -- for its back-end provider to host online backups for customers, relying on Amazon's trusted security measures and speedy networks for redundancy and reliable backups. The same company also offers xackmail -- an online backup of Apple Mail content for $2 per month with an unlimited storage capacity.
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Uh... pass.
Oh yeah, that's a business model that will succeed. Sure.
Um, DST and Leap Years have nothing to do with each other.
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.)
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.