This week's podcast was devoted to explaining the benefits of using a PogoPlug (plus a USB Hard Drive) as a server that would allow you to share photos with your clients - simple, easy, no learning curve, reliable, etc. The list goes on. Well, today my PogoPlug icon told me there was an update waiting, and guess what, this one brought the heat: Automated backups. Well, they all it 'Active Copy', but it's the same thing.

The three folders it offers by default are your pictures, music, and movies - although you are free to add any folder you want. This is a dream-come-true for someone who wants an additional level of backup and doesn't want to pay for a service like Carbonite. Don't get me wrong, I like Carbonite, but it's not for me, and it's also no their fault. The bottle-neck in off-site backup solutions is most often the ISP - they cap the maximum amount of data that can be uploaded per day. I found that I got about 3-4 GB/day uploaded successfully - not great seeing as how I added between 4-8 GB/day in photos. At that rate, I would never catch up. The PogoPlug backs-up through the LAN, so it doesn't need to go through the ISP, saving me from the same problem as off-site backup.

Keep up the good work CloudEngines.

If you're interested, check out the PogoPlug here.