P.A.R.O.A.T.
With the recent purchase of my new moped, the K7M, it's time to revisit an idea I've had for quite some time, the Portland Area Remote Offsite-Archive Team (P.A.R.O.A.T., pronounced "parrot"). The idea is simply that we come to your house (on mopeds) and back up your computer and then drive off. If you ever suffer a crash, you at least have the ability to restore some of the data you lost (depending on when the last backup took place). Additionally, as this will be an offsite backup, you are protected in case of flooding or fire or something catastrophic.
P.A.R.O.A.T. is still in the development stages (we have harddrives and mopeds, but the system of organizing and transferring the data is still being laid out) and we're looking for some alpha testers. The best candidates are people who...
- Do not backup their computer
- Have about 75 GB of data (or less)
- Live within the coverage zone (see map below)
- Are somehow related to UrHo
- Will hang out with us while the backup is taking place
So if you fit most of the criteria, shoot me an email of leave a comment. We might be ready for testing as soon as next weekend (September 1st, 2nd).
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<< | Posted by kmikeym at 4:02 PM | >>
Mikey, this is such a cool idea. Very useful!
what a rad idea! my only relation to urho is one of dedicated reader, but i meet all the other qualifications, and would be very interested in this service. what are the costs involved? are there plans to return to customers' houses periodically and do future backups?
The plan is that we'd visit on a regular basis. Not so much like "weekly" or "monthly" as just when we got around to it. Hopefully just by showing up and doing it people see how easy it is, and start backing up on their own!
Me!
Me me me!
(Also you can't do it on the 1st. Wedding times.)