Free iTunes Backup for One Year with Bandwagon
The guys at Bandwagon are hooking TAB readers up with a sweet deal!
The first 25 people who send an email to tab@ridethebandwagon.com will get the Bandwagon iTunes backup service free for an entire year (a savings of $24).
Bandwagon automatically keeps your entire iTunes collection (music, movies, television shows, games, etc) backed up using a number of storage facility options (S3, FTP, OmniDrive). It’s a fantastic service that is a must for anyone with a substantial collection.
Again, the first 25 people who send an email to tab@ridethebandwagon.com will get this deal. So if you really want it, you should act fast.
Happy Friday TABers!
NOTE: I apologize for not clarifying this, or if it wasn’t obvious to you on the Bandwagon site, but Bandwagon doesn’t offer the actual storage itself. They offer the application that helps you keep your iTunes backups synced to an external storage area (such as S3, FTP, etc).
Louis Gray on June 22nd, 2007 at 12:44 pm
That sounds like a sweet deal. I dare them to take on my 25 GB. My e-mail is on its way.
Lonnie on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:10 pm
Nice. I sent my email ;)
Vineet Bhatia on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 pm
i did too ;)
Nathaniel on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Sent my message, but are they really prepared for 450 GB?
Ben Drucker on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Cool. I got the same deal on Uneasy Silence. Very useful.
MacRat on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Thank you for using our backup service. The RIAA has reviewed your backup and will be contacting you soon.
;-)
Raven on June 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Oooh, I do hope they let me have one. I’m so paranoid about losing my music that it’s almost an obsession.
Terence Pua on June 22nd, 2007 at 2:38 pm
I just want to clarify: we don’t provide the actual storage; we just provide the app service for you to use with your own online storage like S3, ftp, etc.
Btw, we ran out of the offer in the 1st hour :(
Brian on June 22nd, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I use their service. It’s a BYOB. It uses either FTP to an account of your own to back it up, or an Amazon S3 account, which charges minimal monthly fees for backup.
Nathaniel on June 22nd, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Ah, then I guess Mozy.com is still the best bet, they provide storage as well as the app :(
Terence Pua on June 22nd, 2007 at 3:56 pm
It’s actually great for those with unused web hosting storage or already have a homegrown ftp server.
Josh Pigford on June 22nd, 2007 at 5:56 pm
In regards to the Mozy.com comment…I honestly much prefer Amazon S3 or my own FTP solution over a relatively unknown service. Something about the “Amazon” name just makes me feel better. :)
Dave M. on June 22nd, 2007 at 8:37 pm
My webhost is currently giving me just over 245GB’s of storage, so my nearly 80GB’s will easily fit.
Now, if I just had a fast upload speed, this would take a little less time. I’m currently on 5 of 11,439.
Dancer on June 22nd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
…I don’t know. It seems like anyone with enough web storage for their iTunes library wouldn’t need to pay for someone else to run the transfer. It’s not as if FTP is hard, y’know?
Terence Pua on June 22nd, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Dancer, FTP is not hard but for $2/month, you save oodles of time, get continuous and automatic backup and don’t have to select folders/files and do anything manual.
That’s worth saving hours per month of my time :)
Rom on June 25th, 2007 at 2:30 am
Hurry! October is just around the corner… Time Machine will be bundled with Leopard. :D
Dave M. on June 25th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
Rom, I agree, I’m probably going to stop using Bandwagon after Leopard comes out. So far, I’m not all that impressed with Bandwagon. It’s locked up on me more than Windows ME did and I’m only 3,429 files into my 11,129 to FTP over. I’m using a local FTP server and my LAN to do the transfer, but it’s not going as fast as I would have hoped.
Once Time Machine is on my machine, I’ll be able to stop using a lot of software I am using not to backup various parts of my system.