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I have a pogoplug as well / 5 to 10 gigs free / I would pay the 30 bucks for 100 gigs at aws but I need SSH access for my server backups ... ummm dont think that is avail
Dave
There is SSH on pogoplug!
3 right? 2 USB 3.0 on the back, 1 USB 2.0 on the front.
That is correct. You will be streaming/downloading stuff directly from your own internet connection. So if you have a slow upload, streaming/downloading stuff from another location will be slow.
The Amazon Glacier storage is solely provided as a backup storage for your Pogoplug, incase the attached harddrives to your Pogoplug break down, and cannot be used to directly download or stream stuff from.
I assume you mean 4 ports. 3 on the back, 1 in the front.
Correct.
@Freek If I remember correctly, the CNet deal includes the Pogoplug mobile (or just 'Pogoplug' now) which has 1 USB 2.0 port, 1 SSD card slot, and 1 Ethernet port.
My Pogoplug classic is here! Does anyone colo these :P
Has anyone else had a problem of streaming large videos (100MB +) i can download them fine but streaming dont work
On my mobile right now. Haven't found the time yet to install the thingy. Currently at a birthday party, have another one this evening after this one. Hope to find the time tomorrow to play around with it....
Just looking further at mine. turns out its a pogoplug Pro with the faster proc and wifi.
@DanielM Mine looks the same, but does not have WiFi?
I found the time to install the thingy today. The initial setup went smooth but then the problems started. Their web interface is not so intuitive, but I can live with that.
What's worse is that their backup aka companion software is not intuitive at all. I set it to backup some folders on my PC to my external HDD attached to my PogoPlug. The thing was that I already had the exact same files and folders on that external harddrive, so I was hoping that it would see the files were already there and just skip uploading the files. Well, it didn't. It just started overwriting them without asking any questions. This sucks in two ways: 1. Wasting excessive bandwidth 2. If you already have files on your harddrive with the same names/folders you are trying to backup from your PC, they will be overwritten, regardless if they are bigger/smaller/newer etc.
But here's the real dealbreaker: Each and everytime I reboot my PC, the pogoplug software just 'forgets' that it has backupped my files before and starts ALL OVER again... everytime! So in other words: It's re-uploading 1.5TB of files everytime I reboot my PC. That's just insane!!! I am not the only one with this issue: http://support.pogoplug.com/entries/21923227-backup-question
I am sorry, but this is a real showstopper. Basically I just can't use it at all, because I don't feel like uploading 1.5TB every time over my slow uplink...
Bottomline: Nice idea, nice concept, cheap price... but a buggy interface and broken software is a big nono.
@Freek For all your data that you just want backed up and you don't change it often, get a 2TB hard drive with an encrypted volume and just back everything up to that. Store it in the garage, at work, or at a friends house. Easiest thing to do IMO. No need to spend a few days/week backing up multiple TBs of data, and it can be easily restored too.
For personal documents, get crashplan or something so it's backed up regularly.
Goto the my pogoplug area. Goto settings then you see wireless. or "draadloze" in your case ::)
I want to keep an offsite backup of my NAS, which automatically downloads episodes of all my favorite TV shows and series (approx 6 new episodes a week), so storing an HDD in my garage is not an option. Basically what I had in mind to do with my PogoPlug should work and suit this job properly if the software works...
CrashPlan is an option tho.
Nope, not there?
Thats really strange. On mine it is. Maybe i was lucky and got a special version
ahh thats why. urs is pogoplug. mine is pogoplug pro
Did you buy the 99 dollar plan then?
Nope.the $29 plan
This makes no sense then. How is yours Pro and mine isn't?
Guess its just luck
Well it doesn't really make much of a difference anyway
Won't use the WiFi and the software is still broken :P
Am using WD anywhere backup
no need for that buggy software.
with the pogoplug mapped as a Network drive.
with the pogoplug mapped as a Network drive.
Meh, my PogoPlug is not on the same network as my NAS.... Can't set something up with OpenVPN because the PogoPlug doesn't support OpenVPN, or I need to get a router, flash it with DD Wrt and put it in front of the PogoPlug...Plausible, but lets see if they can fix it.
True and not true. You can install OPT and install via ipkg just like on a NAS drive.
Use borderlinx.de for this purpose
True, true. But let's wait and see if they can fix it within an reasonable amount of time. I give them 2 weeks
I thought about getting one of these, but with my slow upload speed I'm better off just backing up to one of my home servers, and then make a copy of the server and bring it to a friends house for an offsite backup.
Yeah, it would literally take me three to four months to initially backup all my data. Encrypted disk on HDD stored offsite is the easiest way to go for me.
All my documents which I regularly use are stored on network (file server) and that's backed up and what not.
So through cnet you get the Pro version?
@AsadHaider Yeah. I tried CrashPlan and uploading all of my data would take a little over a year.
I have a similar setup where I have a server in my basement with lots of storage which is where I put all of my documents, media, and other files.