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Give the site your username and password, and for no pay you can backup once a month up to a certain amount of data. For a tiny fee you can backup monthly. For a bit more, you even get a daily backup of everything. So that when google goes broke or your email user/pw is compromised, you have a backup.
OR! Better yet! Backup for free at ANY rate. But if you ever want to retrieve your contact list, or Geni images, pay for them!
To enter the site, besides a onetime user/pw that you give it and that actually works, you supply a series of answers to common questions, or a series of questions you can ask, that you know the answer to. Then to retrieve the backup you must supply that information.
It's called Mozy
http://mozy.com/?re...50ZwCFdZM5QodLTRAKg
[21 Quest, Sep 01 2009]
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There are plenty of web-based backup services already, but those all back up your hard-drive, not your social life. So, this would be a cross between a backup service and a, uh, personal content aggregator or something. (What _do_ you call a thing that logs into your personal mailboxes/sites for you?) |
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I think a lot of the users of such a service wouldn't realize that they are backing up the static appearance of services (like archive.org does), but not the service functionality itself. |
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Sounds like a prescription for lots of custom screen scraping code and some bizdev arrangements. |
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Although the idea sounds redundant, you get a bun from me. Yahoo has lost 10+ years of e-mail from one of my accounts and still can't retrieve it. (The engineers are looking into the problem, I'm told). True, I could have done this myself, but I did not. I think you may have a niche -- my only concern would be privacy, reselling of your data, etc. |
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[+] but it would be cheaper for the sites themselves to offer an export and store local feature. Maybe only a third party would go to all the trouble of providing a screen injector service as well as a scraper. |
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Sorry [21Quest]! Its NOT called Mozy. They do online backup of YOUR DISK! Not of my ONLINE content. So they don't do what I'm proposing at all. |
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[Bigsleep] thanks! It wouldn't be cheaper for the site itself, if the "site itself" closes down, or all of a sudden decides to charge a fee. |
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Scraping yes, [Jutta], but not all that much... for an email service its probably just an extra simple "forward" of each mail item in the folders, once, and then using a listener service (which always exists for these programs) |
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Given that programs exist to download emails and cached
webpages to one's computer, all you have to do is use one of
those programs, then backup your computer's files with a
program like Mozy. However, if you're worried so much about
entire websites crashing, what's to prevent your backup site from
crashing? Backup your emails by auto-fowarding copies of them
to alternate email accounts. I have 4 email accounts I use, with
copies of all my important emails stored in each of them. As far
as Facebook, you can get copies of such pages from the Wayback
Machine, or store cached pages in an external hard drive. |
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Gee, I just forward copies of important stuff to my offsite mailserver and backup email text, business data files and important attachments to a 16GB USB drive that I keep on my keyring. How stupid am I? |
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