Xackup bandwagon iTunes Online Backup Service

We've mentioned previous efforts to roll your own online iTunes backup using Jungle Disk and Amazon's S3, but frankly that seemed like a little bit of a hack, and potentially opened you up to some surprisingly large fees. Now Xackup is introducing an all-in-one iTunes online backup services called bandwagon, which uses S3 as well, but is mediated by Xackup, so the pricing is fixed at $69 year (introductory price) for unlimited storage. Xackup also includes a client, which sits in your menubar (right) and allows you to control the backup and restore process (e.g. selective backup/restore, search, etc.). Unfortunately, it appears that bandwagon is strictly a backup service and does not offer on-the-go access to your music (though I suppose in principle you could use it with your notebook to download particular tracks or albums you had previously uploaded from your desktop). Unfortunately, I can find no information on the bandwagon site concerning bandwidth limitations, if any.

As I noted before, bandwagon is presently available (until the end of February) for a special price of $69 for one year of unlimited storage, after which the price will jump to $99/year. If you want to try it first and see how well it works, they also have a 30-day demo of the service available for $1.

Thanks to those who sent this in!

[Via MacNN]

[Update: the Xackup people have pulled the service because "the response has been overwhelming... [and they] underestimated the demand." They say their long-term pricing plan is "as yet undetermined."]

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super_nova

for last few weeks i have been looking for solution of backing up/synchronizing my itunes library. i started off with searching for free software to provide me this facility and to my surprise I GOT ONE LINK. It's TezLink. Visit www.tezlink.com and give it a try. It also gives data back up/synchronization facility!!!

May 08 2007 at 5:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ronnie

Oops, tried to post a link to the site but did not work
Backing up a bunch of data at first requires a seed load utility. See if they can send you a USB drive, you backup with their software to the drive and put back in the mail. Then they put on server within 24 hrs then you just backup incremental stuff from then on. Very cool and fast and affordable.. try this online backup company.. http://www.disksave.com

March 06 2007 at 11:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ronnie

Backing up a bunch of data at first requires a seed load utility. See if they can send you a USB drive, you backup with their software to the drive and put back in the mail. Then they put on server within 24 hrs then you just backup incremental stuff from then on. Very cool and fast and affordable.. try this online backup company.. Online Backup

March 06 2007 at 11:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Terence Pua

Revised Bandwagon service and pricing announced:
http://blog.ridethebandwagon.com/2007/03/01/revised-bandwagon-application-service/

March 02 2007 at 9:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Terence Pua

@wolfram- mp3tunes only backs up music, not movies, tv shows, music videos, ipod games, etc.

February 26 2007 at 4:33 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

drd21

im wondering why nobody mentioned http://mp3tunes.com/ ? it provides a similar service at a much lower price (40$/year) and even gives you streaming direct to itunes and listening trough the webinterface.

after a hd crash i was able to recover all of music (about 40gb) synced to mp3tunes within a day of downloading.

and their client is multiplatform (uses python)

February 25 2007 at 4:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Terence Pua

@Jay- that's a future feature.

@AJB- stupid mistake...http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/02/9732/

February 24 2007 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Terence Pua

@k- No one likes to admit mistakes but I own up to this one. Underestimation to the googol. Let me redeem myself and offer a free account...at least give it a shot [terpua at xackup dot org].

February 24 2007 at 5:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Um, if you go to their site now, you'll find a very different story... limited space, for undetermined pricing. Apparently following this post, they got a lot of traffic and are suffering under it.

To be honest, I think the whole thing was either incredibly dishonest or incredibly stupid. If you can't deliver on your promises, don't make them. It may be that they genuinely made a mistake and didn't expect the response they got, but that's business, you know... someone should've done better math.

It's too bad, I liked the idea and I liked the price, but I'm turned off now. Apparently it really was too good to be true.

February 24 2007 at 5:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Can multiple machines access an account? Consider a household with 3 people using iTunes on 3 different machines. Each one purchases media from the iTunes store, all under the same account. Each machine is authorized to play all the media, but propagating a new media file to all the machines has always been tricky. Can Xackup be installed on all these machines to backup/restore to the same account? Will this effectively distribute new media from any one machine to the others on the account?

February 24 2007 at 10:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply