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Backupify offers free lifetime backups of GMail, Flickr, Twitter*
Maintaining current backups of your important data is always a good idea and apps which make that task easier are always welcome. What about all your web accounts - places like Facebook, Photobucket, and Flickr where you've been posting all those photos. Or Google Docs and Zoho?
Backupify is a dead-simple way to archive all those services from a central location. *Until January 31, 2010 they're offering free lifetime accounts to all new users.
They currently support seven services (which you can see above) and 6 more in beta: GMail, Hotmail, Facebook, Basecamp, FriendFeed, and Blogger. Support for YouTube, Tumblr, and XMarks will be added soon, as well as a way to archive any RSS feed you choose.
Backupify is a dead-simple way to archive all those services from a central location. *Until January 31, 2010 they're offering free lifetime accounts to all new users.
They currently support seven services (which you can see above) and 6 more in beta: GMail, Hotmail, Facebook, Basecamp, FriendFeed, and Blogger. Support for YouTube, Tumblr, and XMarks will be added soon, as well as a way to archive any RSS feed you choose.
I'll admit, it's a bit of an ironic concept - backing up your cloud data in case a service shuts down onto another cloud service which could also shut down - but Backupify is elegantly simple to use and you certainly can't argue with the price right now.
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Subscribe to comments__smooth__Dec 22nd 2009 11:38AM
and isn't there a way to backup this backup to my HDD?
BlackCoffeeNoSugarDec 22nd 2009 1:56PM
Ironic: Because, let's be honest, they are more likely to shut down than most of the services they offer to backup.
techpopsDec 22nd 2009 5:03PM
Initially I wanted to poke fun at the idea of backing up stuff in the cloud to the cloud but even if this service shuts down, they are bound to give all the users a warning before that happens. Usually a long enough time to make other arrangements. But in this case you'd lost nothing anyway unless one of your backed up services goes out of business and then its probably pointless having a backup of that anyway.
So on second thoughts I think this is a great idea. I'd be cautious of what they were doing with all that data but that's a third thought and I should quite while I'm ahead on two.
akshay kankanmeliDec 27th 2009 12:51AM
i found the site to be very interesting...
i gave it a shot and found their security to be pretty weak...
although the youtube, Xmarks and rssfeed settings are not presently open for the public , i was able to access those features via simple mods...
i later tried to hack into my own account for experiment sake and found that to be quite easy :-)...
not yayJan 2nd 2010 2:46AM
How long before google buys backupify?