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Wow you guys are fast. Someone needs to make sure to get Kreeblah!
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zorachus posted:From what I understand, this isn't quite right; the private and public keys are both uploaded to their servers, but the private key is password-protected. That makes more sense (you wouldn't want to permanently lose your data in a reformat by wiping the private key). No I think you're right. I'm fine with managing my own private keys anyways, but for this particular use I'm ok with the details of how it operates.
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Jun 22, 2011 01:34
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kapinga posted:In short, choose a strong password! everywhere and always
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Jun 22, 2011 02:09
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SpiderOak just announced 2-factor authentication. Check it out here: https://spideroak.com/blog/20110620235134-2-factor-authentication-to-your-spideroak-account
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Jun 22, 2011 22:42
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slovach posted:Is it me or is the client the shittiest thing in the world. It works very well and is quite responsive for me. That includes on my N270 (old!) Atom 1.6ghz netbook. I've been very happy with it so far.
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Jun 26, 2011 04:00
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One of it's processes just sits and eats an entire core and nothing works, it's been scanning DIRT 3 files for like the last 20 minutes.
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slovach posted:It's still scanning poo poo and CHUGGING over an hour later. It's just working its way through my entire harddrive for I dunno what loving reason. Because you pressed a checkbox at the root of your hard drive, that's my guess. It never looked through anything I didn't tell it to.
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Jun 26, 2011 05:09
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pro-tip: don't delete your files and then purge the backups if you want to keep your files.
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Underflow posted:Yeah, that was a stupid thing to do. It wasn't entirely clear (to me) in the online manual. Thought it would only delete older versions like the command says. Had the impression that local operations didn't affect the remote dir. It clearly says it's a backup tool though, so it's my fault for treating it like regular online storage. Not sure what you're aim is BUT if you want to roll your own or pay a little, Crashplan is excellent. You can set it to NEVER delete old/deleted versions. I also don't recommend relying on any one service or method for backup. For me, SpiderOak is a way to synchronize and back up all my often-accessed files -- school stuff mainly. I have always-updated copies of every file on all my devices and a nice backup, but then I have other backup methods/services as well (Crashplan is one).
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Jun 27, 2011 13:59
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I'm running it on a Win 7 32bit Intel Atom N270 netbook with a lovely SSD and Microsoft Security Essentials and I haven't had any problems. Likewise on a Win 7 64bit Core 2 Duo also with MSE and also without problems.
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Yeah it's a little ridiculous... dozens of people have complained about it in this thread and I'm sure dozens more had trouble finding it but didn't say anything. This thread got so huge! It is responsible for roughly 4,500gb of new free accounts at SpiderOak, wow!
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Aug 4, 2011 19:01
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scaevola posted:You know, it's kinda hard for new people to give you the referral bonus unless you actually post your referral link... If he doesn't come back with a link, scan through the thread to find one that got skipped over; there are lots of them.
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chupacabraTERROR posted:Not trying to break the chain here or anything, but I figure this is the most relevant place to ask. I just installed this program and it seems to be working okay, but the "back up" tab is really, really slow. I can barely even use it, it's so slow. I'm in the advanced view trying to select which folders I want to sync and it takes a good 30-60 seconds for the screen to move each time I do something. To scroll down and select my folder, I click the arrow down on the scroll bar, and it just waits for about 30 seconds before moving. I've tried letting it just sit there and load first, but if I leave it alone for 5 minutes and then start over, it's still just as slow. I have a lot of files on my internal and external hard drives, but nothing so dramatic that could bring this program to it's knees.... Other people have had this problem, but I don't know what to say. I've installed it on 4 computers now and no issues.
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Stew Man Chew posted:I'm an idiot, found it, under Mr Stabby! Check the first line in the OP. If that doesn't fix it, then I don't know. I've literally never experienced ANY issues like that with the client, across now five computers (I just installed it for my mom over the holiday week).
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boo_radley posted:Mine's been pretty immediate -- as soon as I get the email, the space is there. same here.
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chippy posted:This thread is boring as hell. It's a referral chain, not really much discussion. There are several other threads for discussing online backup options. I suggest you try those.
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TWBalls posted:Under Doniazade Remove your link to make sure
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grilldos posted:Spideroak is an awful name. It really is.
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Chow-King posted:How do these referrals work anyway? Does it daisy chain? So for example, ten people continue to sign up in this thread for accounts after me, will I see ten extra gigs in mine? No unfortunately not.
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Mak0rz posted:Not a fan of sake, but I still signed up under you! It's not just you... it has come up a LOT of times in the thread. I appended the OP... I hope it's clear.
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ijyt posted:Under you. Congratulations on having the 1,337'th post.
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May 16, 2012 05:38
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kapalama posted:Is there a referral thread for SugarSync? There used to be. Not sure where it is.
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Jun 13, 2012 18:33
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kapinga posted:So you all know, Spideroak is offering 4 more GB free to all users (new, non-paying, and paying). Something to do with Freedom and the 4th of July. It says this only works if you have less than 6gb in your free account. If anyone has more than 6gb and has applied this code successfully, I'd like to hear about it.
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Didn't see that, thanks. Wow.
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The_Maz posted:Signed up a while back. Here's a referral link! this is kind of not cool please remove your link.
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QPZIL posted:I used someone's code ages ago and never used my own. So here's starting another branch: Kind of a dick move to cut off demonR6.
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MeKeV posted:I don't know if I be posting SO info in here, or just let the chain run? But from what I can see there isn't a general chat thread, and probably no call for one either. This is very cool indeed.
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Nov 18, 2012 20:17
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Did you use the one above yours?
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Sentient Data posted:The promo code in OP didn't work, but FREEDOM4 works for 6GB Thank you! I have updated the OP with the new code.
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Edited the OP for case.
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Choadmaster posted:Thanks, here's mine: https://spideroak.com/download/referral/f45ee6d3fe4ee8228953fd559570b592 Edit: Don't bother, give the credit to the guy/gal above me. Sorry you're having so much trouble. Your upload performance is far worse than I would generally see, but expecting to get 64 megabits/sec up is a bit much. Do you even have that much upload bandwidth?
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I don't know if they do or do not engage in that activity, but you can let management know that their privacy policy is basically "yes we can look at your files but you can trust us." That should be a dealbreaker for anyone with the least bit of concern over privacy.
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