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Episode 22

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• Marco's new-new app, Bugshot, and some of its design decisions.
• Cutting features from 1.0 and trying to keep Bugshot from taking too much time.
• Bugshot gets the John Siracusa treatment.
• Exploring NAS options and initial impressions of the Synology DS1813+.
• Economics of FreeNAS or Mac Mini alternatives.
• iSCSI on Macs: the free $89 globalSAN initiator and the $195 ATTO initiator, which comes recommended by storage expert Dave Nanian.
• NAS backup options, since Backblaze doesn't do network drives: CrashPlan (with widespread upload-speed issues), or Arq (with potentially expensive Amazon Glacier or S3 costs).
• Backing up Mac filesystem metadata, Backup Bouncer, and current scores of online backup apps.
• Data hoarding and falling into John's backup vortex.
• The Apple Keynotes podcast feed.

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Published on 12 years, 5 months ago