Wouldn't it make more sense to get carbonite to work with the Pogoplug (instead of the other way around)? Can Carbonite's little client app that you install just be pointed at P:\ and then tell it to backup anything that changes on the P: drive to Carbonite?

Does Windows do virtual mountpoints? I wonder if there's a way to mount P:\ under c:\pogoplug as a mount. Symbolic links under *nix accomplish this. Basically in this way, carbonite would still cd C:\pogoplug as a part of the "local drive"

James,
I have used several different backup programs. Some with great success and some not quite so. What in particular are you trying to do?

Place Shifting Enthusiasts

I'm looking for the same kind of solution. I want to keep everything on the hard drive on the pogoplug, but if some thing happens to that drive (broken, stolen, fire, etc) I want to be able to get the data back. I just tried Backblaze and that doesn't seem to work, either.

@andreas yes you can use the pogoplug software to access your pogoplug as a system drive from the internet.

The personal cloud and sharing would be a LOT easier to use if my.pogoplug.com were up and running.

How about posting a status message on the home page when the my.pogoplug.com access is down, and an anticipated time when it will be available.

Trying to explain this to friends, and it makes a real bad impression to see a blank web page after all the talk about how great it is.

You're depending on word of mouth a lot, but not supporting your "sales" team this way, that is, the folks who have it, like it, and are trying to be helpful.

I do not see a solution here, did anyone every find out how to backup my unit to a office site solution?

Hello, I think this might be a solution to the backup concerns in this thread.

Acronis True Image Home 2011 will clone or backup any drive or partition on you local machine to any mapped drive on your local network, including Pogoplug attached drives. I just tried it and it works. Previously, all backup programs I tried would not recognize the mapped Pogoplug drives and some wouldn't even allow backup to a router attached NAS drive. This is the first program that allowed me to make an image of a complete flash drive to another flash drive attached to the Pogoplug. Here's the link to the website.

http://www.acronis.com/promo/ATIH2011/ATI-ALL/index.html?source=us_googleATI_...

They have a 30 day trial. The only limitation that I can see is that it won't let you do a full drive to drive clone and partition sizing without purchasing the license.

Acronis comes with some great hard drive utilities as well. From reading the help it also looks like you could use FTP to backup and restore an image or individual files. The True Image Home 2011 program allows you to mount the backup image across the network to the Pogoplug drive and map it as if it were a separate drive on the network. Then you can just use Windows and drag and drop files to your local PC drive to restore them.

I need to do a bit more testing, but this seems to work. Please provide your experiences with this program so we can all benefit from your testing.

Thanks.

Ed