SpiderOak Promotion Code For Free Upgrade To 10 GB
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Just a small shout out to let you guys know that you can use the discount coupon code “linkup” while signing up the excellent online backup service SpiderOak to get a major bump to 10 GB from the 2 GB that they give to normal accounts.
For those who don’t know SpiderOak is a great online data backup service, with its major strengths being truly cross paltform (Mac/Linux/Windows – 32 bit as well as 64 bit), easy interface, rsync like differential backups to save time and disk space, versioned file history, web as well as client interface, unlimited number of devices, unlimited bandwidth, etc etc.
BTW, let me know if you use any other good online backup services. And what are your views about Dropbox that just came out of beta and even released a linux client finally…
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This post has 8 comments
September 13th, 2008
I’m loving Dropbox – super simple. It just works.
On the other hand, the zero-knowledge mantra of SpiderOak is awesome.
Personally, I’m sticking with Dropbox for now still.
Note that this coupon offer will only give you 10GB free for one year according to http://www.storagenewsletter.com/news/business/spideroak-ex-subscribers-of-the-linkup
September 13th, 2008
@Smiley, yeah i just tried out Dropbox and it looks quite simple and easy plus the web interface is much better than spideroak. Also, dropbox seems a bit more reliable on face value as they use Amazon S3 at backend while spideroak have their own servers though this could mean nothing..
And thnx for letting me know abt the 1 year clause, didn’t know that
September 20th, 2008
While the coupon code works, note that you only get this free for one year, not permanently like the 2GB account.
December 16th, 2008
July 3rd, 2009
Hi shantz.
1st of all, thx for all your effort you’re sharing.
Maybe it’s a little bit late, but I just stumbled upon this post.
Dropbox is nice, yes, especially for instant sharing content with (special interest) buddies/groups (for instance for music production)
However, I haven’t installed the daemon for quite some time now, hope things improved in the meanwhile. But I’m fine with the web interface too.
## –> BTW, let me know if you use any other good online backup services
Well, “service” would be seriously exaggerated, but I love ompload.
Very simple, very basic CLI to upload (a) file(s) up to 1GB (!each!) of size. As it’s NOT moderated and there are no useraccounts neither, this isn’t a really safe way to store your files online. However, it is the handiest way to quickly upload foobar you want to share with someone right now!
Here’s some sample output:
docter[~] ompload Desktop/public.asc
Progress for ‘Desktop/public.asc’
######################################################################## 100.0%
Omploaded ‘Desktop/public.asc’ to http://omploader.org/vMXgwcg
Success.
docter[~]
July 3rd, 2009
Cool. Thanks loomsen. CLI uploading in itself is a bonus for me..
Thanks for sharing this.
July 4th, 2009
Glad you like it, here’s a simple nautilus-script (containing a .desktop definition to create a DragNDrop capable icon too)
http://omploader.org/vMXg0Nw
August 6th, 2009
Well the coupon code doesn’t work anymore, but there are a few around that do if you upgrade.
I love dropbox, it’s more for syncing and sharing as opposed to backups. But i really like Spideroak too, minus the web interface, it needs work. You can use both in tandem quite well