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Gris - May 05, 2015 4:00:04 am PDT #24441 of 25496

Hey. New board.

shrift, I use a mix of Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive for documents. Between the three of them I have more than enough free space for everything in the "if this gets lost things are sad" category, and a few things I have hacked to back up in two of the three. I don't back up everything, only things that would be devastating to lose.

My music is backed up to Google Music, so I don't back it up elsewhere, and movies (mostly ripped myself) are only backed up on my local NAS because even though I like collecting videos I long ago realized that I don't really watch them much and if they all disappeared the world would not end, so it's not worth paying for cloud space to store them. I use the free Crashplan software to sync with the NAS, and love it; honestly, if you want an all-in-one backup system in the cloud, Crashplan Paid would be my vote over Carbonite.

Pictures automatically upload to dropbox from my phone, then get transferred to Google Drive as need be for space issues; we have infinite space on Drive with Google Apps for Education, but before we inherited that we just paid $2/month for 100GB to back up pictures. I upload personal videos to YouTube when I need to clear space; mark them private and essentially use it as backup. Since I only take videos with my phone, the quality reduction is not a big deal to me.

DCJensen - May 05, 2015 7:28:41 am PDT #24442 of 25496

All is well that ends in pizza.

omnis, this might help.

[link]

It has a few parameters you might find useful using networksetup from Terminal.

Examples:

-createVLAN

-deleteVLAN

-listVLANs

-listdevicesthatsupportVLAN

Wolfram - May 05, 2015 10:38:08 am PDT #24443 of 25496

Visilurking

I've started using Mega for storing media in the cloud since it comes with 50GB free. I don't know much about the company though, so I don't store any personal pics or docs.

meara - May 05, 2015 11:19:16 am PDT #24444 of 25496

I have all macs, so I pay $1/month for some iCloud space and mostly just try to remember to hook up an external drive for timemachine every so often

-t - May 05, 2015 11:20:23 am PDT #24445 of 25496

I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I think I do like meara? I don't remember what I signed up for, but something along those lines.

omnis_audis - May 05, 2015 2:37:54 pm PDT #24446 of 25496

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Thanks DCJ. It looks like that's for 10.9. I'm running 10.7.5. I've tried the commands, and it keeps coming up "command not found". There is a strong possibility I'm doing something wrong. I even tried logging in as administrator into Terminal. Same "command not found".

omnis_audis - May 05, 2015 3:51:56 pm PDT #24447 of 25496

omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

Poking around more, I found VLAN pref's in SYSTEM PREFERENCES>NETWORK>gear thingie>MANAGE VIRTUAL INTERFACES. Sure enough, there are NO virtual networks created.

How can a port have two IP addresses?!?!

:: shakes wee fist at the gods ::

This machine has 2 network ports. I've switched to the second. I give up. Too many fish to fry.

If anyone knows how/why a VLAN appears to be set up, although not in the pref's, and how to remove it, I'm happy to accept your help in erradicting the gremlin. But I'm not wasting anymore work time chasing ghosts.

Jessica - May 11, 2015 2:22:35 pm PDT #24448 of 25496

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Factory reset my phone after the lollipop upgrade frelled the battery life and caused it to overheat from doing just about anything. Dear god I have a lot of apps to reinstall. (It's automatically restoring itself so all I have to do is wait, but it's taking foreeeeeevvvvvveeeeerrrrrrr.)

Jessica - May 11, 2015 2:25:19 pm PDT #24449 of 25496

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Also just realizing how much I depend on Lastpass and logging into shit with Facebook! So until those two reappear I kind of can't do anything.

shrift - May 11, 2015 6:07:11 pm PDT #24450 of 25496

"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I forgot to say thanks for the cloud backup recs, so thank you!

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