Comments on: Calgary Rocked by Storm: Flooding, Lightning and Fires

By: Hannah

Hannah — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:48:11 +0000

I remember that storm. Luckily for me, I live just south of Calgary, in Okotoks, and only got some of the storm. Hailstones, fierce lightning, rain, wind, everything there could be came with that storm.
Luckily my dad got home safe, driving in that.

By: EABonney

EABonney — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 22:18:02 +0000

Yea I can understand why they don’t alow it. And I did find a couple of services, but only one was feasible for personal use from a cost stand point. It was done through Amazon as I recall.

I under stand the open nature of Linux, but there are some things that we still need commercial items for and I would say this is one of them.
-Eric

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:49:44 +0000

EABonney: I don’t know of any online backup tools for Linux. I think the reality is that most companies don’t make commercial software for Linux because in the Linux world there’s always someone working on a free version of almost everything, so there’s no incentive to compete. Hopefully I’m wrong and there’s something out there for you, but I looked at Mozy, a service similar to Carbonite, and they don’t have anything for Linux either. Carbonite will not work with mapped drives either – it would allow people to do what you’re trying to do, which is back up a whole network of PCs for $5 a month…that’s not very fair to them.

By: EABonney

EABonney — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:27:52 +0000

Hey Jason, Great pics! Really gald to hear nobody was seriously hurt, like you said objects can be replaced but not human life.

I was really exited about Carbonite but then I looked at the site. It only supports XP so it’s a no go for me running linux.

Wonder if it would work with mapped drives on my XP desktop?

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 01:56:34 +0000

Carbonite is a very useful service – the cost is per PC, though you can use something like FolderShare to sync all your data onto one PC then back that PC up. Daily external is good, but if it’s in your home and there’s a fire…daily external is not so good.

By: MitchellD

MitchellD — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:58:17 +0000

I am just glad that it wasn’t your place Jason, and that the people in the house got out safe and sound. We got some lighting and thunder out here in Carstairs but not alot of rain.

Nice shots with the cameras, I keep thinking more and more about going to a Digital SLR…

By: T-Will

T-Will — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:42:02 +0000

Carbonite looks like a pretty cool service and looks very cost effective. Is it really unlimited data? Can you backup multiple PC’s? I have a daily external drive backup, but you can never have enough backups, right?

By: Lightening Storms in Calgary, Canada at Gear Diary

Lightening Storms in Calgary, Canada at Gear Diary — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 22:46:58 +0000

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By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:11:10 +0000

And just to be clear, the house fire was most certainly caused by lightning given the big hole in the roof…