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1. #Spideroak cost mac os
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3. #Spideroak cost archive
4. #Spideroak cost verification
5. #Spideroak cost software

In case of a rare failure, SpiderOak has a much-lauded range of support options, including e-mail, phone, Twitter Skype chat, support blogs and Skype phone support.

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For example, delete a file it’s moved to your “Deleted Items” folder in SpiderOak and can only be permanently deleted from there using the SpiderOak software interface. SpiderOak’s advantage over other online back-up services is that older versions of a file are retained. The ‘cross-platform’ pledge only goes so far. The default configuration doesn’t back-up important data files like Evolution, Thunderbird (or Outlook) e-mail, or Quickbooks databases. Sadly there is little by way of drag and drop operation, it’s all very point-and-click. Work on it there and see the changes over on the original the next day.

So the usual example is to can work on a file in the office, save it to SpiderOak and have it on the home PC and Mac when you arrive. SpiderOak can be used to sync files across multiple computers, on multiple platforms (Windows, Mac and Linux). The buttons along the top take some getting used to. The View tab has more power than the name suggests, in that you can select down to the file level what to include in your back-up or share, along with the version history. The Schedule tab provides a simple one-stop control for Backup Sync and Share either to a frequency or to a specific day and hour. After that, a lot can be done through the tabs under Preferences Backup, Schedule and Copy being the most important and where SpiderOak gets a lot of its flexibility. When you download a file, the file is saved in your Downloads folder, with a date-time stamp appended to the filename, giving you much needed version control information.įunctions such as the installer and setting up shares both run through a guided interface. Should you need to access your files from an unregistered device, you can do that through the SpiderOak web interface. The View tab is the heart of defining what is selected for back-up down to individual file level. The Sync page is where you to set which folders remain synced between your computers. The bottom bar gauges how much of your cloud storage allocation your selection will occupy, color-coded by folder so you can see what take most space. Each category on the selection list corresponds to a folder on your computer, even ‘Desktop’. The Back Up tab is just a place for you to specify what files you would like to include in a back-up. The status tab provides plenty of information regarding connection, back-ups, sync and shares, your current queue. There is a lot going on, with tabs and, in effect, sub-tabs grouping functions together. Setting the password for encryption is built into the installer, which is a rapid, guided process.Īs for the main SpiderOak window, I’m undecided as to whether it is fashionably ‘retro’ or just a bit clunky.

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Installation is a little bit quirky, particularly as it doesn’t ask for the account verification code until late.

#Spideroak cost install

You can install the SpiderOak client on as many computers as you like and you can be completely cross-platform. You can have multiple SpiderOak accounts running on the same computer I know of a case where a paid account backs up all of the media files on a machine, while a different free account backs up the user’s Documents folder.

Now 100Gb is a substantial increment and perhaps you’ll never fill it – not intentionally. However, if you go over to 101Gb, that’s still $20 a month. The price is $10 per month per 100Gb increment, or pay yearly and get the 100Gb increment for $100.

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My Full Circle Magazine archive is 150Mb.

This is enough to trial the service and maybe keep some essentials such as your unfinished novel and inbox.

#Spideroak cost mac os

To quote the marketing puff on “SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, sync, sharing, access and storage solution for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora & openSUSE)” In this, part four, we’re going to work through SpiderOak using that list. In part three we ran through a list of criteria for our ideal cloud back-up service.