Dolly Drive 1.2 expands to 2 terabytes, adds seeding program

We met Dolly Drive when it was barely a week old. This week, version 1.2 became available with increased storage capacity, increased upload speed and incremental cloning.

Dolly Drive is a cloud-based backup solution that works with Apple's Time Machine. Once configured, Time Machine treats it as it would any backup volume. Additionally, Dolly Drive creates a local bootable backup, giving you both a local and an off-site backup of your stuff.

Version 1.2 increases the offline storage cap to a generous 2 terabytes. Also, incremental cloning improves the speed of that process, and a new multi-site grid infrastructure on DD's end decreases users' upload time.

I've been happily using Dolly Drive for half a year now. Prices start at US$5/mo. for 50 GB of storage and max out at $55/mo for 2 TB. As a bonus, users receive an additional 5 GB storage per month at no extra cost for every month that they remain a customer.

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We met Dolly Drive when it was barely a week old. This week, version 1.2 became available with increased storage capacity, increased...

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samsonsu

Why should i pay $55/mo when I have 3 yr crash plan unlimited at $99 total?

Not sure about technical details, but the way TM backs data up is not optimized for slow connections. There is no byte-level diff. So unless they do lots of hack I don't know if it will work well.

Crashplan rocks largely because of its rsync-like mechanism which makes it very friendly for slow connections.

May 17 2011 at 3:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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CHRiS

I agree, crashplan is a better solution for off-site backups (even free if you have a friend/off-site computer) ---- and it encrypts your backups. Time machine should be kept local (in house drobo or some other file server).

May 17 2011 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

xekc

The fact they use stolen icon from Midnight Inbox Classic kind of tells you what you should expect:

http://www.dollydrive.com/learn_more/getting-started/ -> http://www.midnightbeep.com/about/

May 17 2011 at 2:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Chimacintosh

This isn't a comparison of that service, but it does have some good information. At these prices I don't see that it will be popular. After all you can buy that kind of storage for a little more money, and it is too expensive for business as well. Perhaps it will do well if it has strong encryption or better security features than DropBox that recently had some security issues.

http://chimac.net/2010/12/22/backblaze-vs-mozy-vs-carbonite-vs-jungledisk-vs-dropbox-vs-crashplan/

May 17 2011 at 2:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brent11

Do you have an upload speed comparison to CrashPlan Pro? Mozy and Backblaze seemed too slow to upload(backup) last time I tried them.

May 17 2011 at 1:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply