We get it, you're already using 5 different photo services so why use another?

Your photos belong to you. That's our core belief. So much that we've gone to great lengths to make sure that you remain in control of your photos as you archive, organize and share them on OpenPhoto.

You give us a valet key to your photos and in exchange we make them beautiful and fun.

Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, Cygwin, and can probably be compiled on many other UNIX-like operating systems. The Tarsnap client code provides a flexible and powerful command-line interface which can be used directly or via shell scripts.

At the present time, Tarsnap does not support Windows (except via Cygwin) and does not have a graphical user interface.

Rotating Time Machine backups has never been easier as of 10.7. Apple included in Lion a command-line interface for Time Machine which makes it completely scriptable. For the complete details on the command-line interface take a look at the man page for tmutil.

I use two Time Machine backups (see my backup strategy below for my complete backup solution) one at home and one at work. Using MarcoPolo you can set triggers and actions to automatically switch your Time Machine destination.

At home, and at work, I have 10.7 Server setup running the Time Machine service. Using MarcoPolo my laptop can determine its location, work or home, and set the IP address for my server appropriately. The following are the details on how to set this up for a Time Machine destination of an AFP share point. With small changes, this will also work for a Time Machine destination of an external hard drive.

Mac OS X 10.7 includes a new facility to make Time Machine backups on the local disk. You can make use of this feature to create snapshots of the current disk status, allowing you to recover instantly from disaster.

Using AeroFS, you can sync all the data on your devices. No limits. No caps. You already have your storage, now use it!

Homesick is sorta like rip, but for dotfiles. It uses git to clone a repository containing dotfiles, and saves them in ~/.homesick. It then allows you to symlink all the dotfiles into place with a single command.

We call a repository that is compatible with homesick to be a 'castle'. To act as a castle, a repository must be organized like so:

Contains a 'home' directory
'home' contains any number of files and directories that begin with '.'

SparkleShare is a syncing and collaboration tool that shines by its absence. It's designed to get out of your way, to make sharing documents and collaboration easier, and to make peers aware of what you are doing.

One of the most basic types of backup is the folder sync. Folder A lives on your Mac. Folder B is on an external hard drive. You want to make Folder B look exactly like Folder A.

Granted, anyone could make this happen by dragging and dropping the contents of A to B. If you have a lot of data, that’s going to take a while each time, though.

Fortunately, there’s a really easy, free way to make this happen with almost no effort (or geekery) on your part using two tools that are already on your Mac: rsync and Automator.

Follow these twelve steps, so that you might never stray from the path.

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Lsyncd uses rsync to synchronize local directories with a remote machine running rsyncd. Lsyncd watches multiple directories trees through inotify. The first step after adding the watches is to rsync all directories with the remote host, and then sync single file by collecting the inotify events. So lsyncd is a light-weight live mirror solution that should be easy to install and use while blending well with your system. See lsyncd --help for detailed command line options.

Spanning Backup continually backs up Google Calendar, Contacts, and Docs to the cloud. Setup takes about 7 seconds. Then you can rest easy, knowing your most important data is protected.

Blu-Ray discs may be more protected and harder to play in certain programs, like XBMC, but that doesn't mean you can't play your HD video on your media center. Here's how to rip and compress Blu-Ray discs for high quality, space-saving results.

FlyBack is a snapshot-based backup tool based on rsync It creates successive backup directories mirroring the files you wish to backup, but hard-links unchanged files to the previous backup. This prevents wasting disk space while providing you with full access to all your files without any sort of recovery program. If your machine crashes, just move your external drive to your new machine and copy the latest backup using whatever file browser you normally use.