This coming Thursday, Bits du Jour will be offering a 43 percent discount on an interesting backup and versioning software, CascadePoint.
I’ve discussed backup strategy before — those posts are here. One of the unresolved topics during previous discussion was how to archive past versions of your documents. Keeping these past versions can be incredibly important. Just imagine suddenly realizing that your novel has gone astray, and you want to go back to an earlier version. Some of us are disciplined enough to save each day’s work with its own unique file name, perhaps simply adding “-000″ at the end, with each successive version getting its own version number. How much easier and safer if that task is automated.
CascadePoint apparently does just that. One can specify how many past versions to keep. Immediately as you save or close a file on your computer, CascadePoint prepares an online backup, with version number. The user can select the online backup service to use, rather than being tied into a single service. For example, writers might well chose the free 5-gig storage space at Xdrive — and CascadePoint incorporates easy linkage to Xdrive. Once the software is configured, the online backup happens invisibly in the background.
I haven’t tried this software yet, but I’m very intrigued. I’ll wait until Thursday to “try and buy.” Bit du Jour offers the software at $20.00, a sizeable discount from its regular price of $34.95. I’m alerting you in advance in case you want to do the same.
Has anyone already had experience with this software? Or perhaps with another software that facilitates versioning? If so, please leave us a comment.
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Comment by
Jeremy Osborne
11 Dec 2007
Among all the other overhaul stuff I’ve been doing, I’ve decided to use Subversion Version Control System (http://subversion.tigris.org/) for my writing. I had made the switch to Subversion with my documentation projects. Learning that the different revisions require very little disk space, the repository is easy to back up, my actual files are not bloated (like with MS Word or Open Office versioning), and I don’t have lots of different files littering my computer convinced me to try this with my personal projects.
Once the switch has happened, I’ll review the whole thing in depth and give my recommendation on whether others should make the switch, or not.
Comment by
Tom Colvin
11 Dec 2007
Jeremy, sounds like you’ve found something truly worth looking into. You are certainly right that the Word and Open Office versioning options leave a lot to be desired. I’ll probably get the CascadePoint software, as I already am working with online storage facility Xdrive. We can compare notes eventually.