WallyG

fooman
...I manually backup to a hardrive at the end of the night.  Doesn't take much time to do so, and I can safely leave my PC and have it move things over.  Simple enough.  But the storage space is often an issue as sessions grow in size and I am becoming busier and busier.

I have a Dropbox account for working with clients, does Gobbler allow us to mixdown and upload mixes automatically in some way?  What about sharing them among selected email addresses?

I work in a similar manner. I first tried Gobbler on my home office computer, but quickly removed it after seeing .gobbler everywhere I looked. I don't like the idea of "the cloud" gobbling up all the files on my computer. Yes I know you can supposedly select the files that are "gobbled, but I have a consulting company and have clients sensitive information on it.
Granted I have a separate computer for music production but I have two separate 3 TB external drives, one connected to that computer and another on my home network. Like you, I back up at the end of the day to both drives. (Belt and suspender guy). I also use Dropbox to share music files, etc.
 
Walt
 
 

Hi Walt!
 
I wanted to address your concerns about the .gobbler file. This is something that is actually written by the cakewalk application. The file gives Gobbler assistance to make sure your project is always accurately backed up. Gobbler has a feature called Gobbler Collect which effectively gives you a virtual collect feature. So instead of having to do actual save collects to send things to the cloud Gobbler can do it virtually this eliminating having unnecessary redundant folders on your desktop and eliminating the possibility that something does not get set to the cloud. 
 
WRT what gets sent to the cloud we are VERY VERY strict with our about everything being Opt-in and for that matter, none of your files get set to the cloud without you explicitly letting Gobbler do so. We are company built by creatives for creatives and are backed by some of the biggest artists in the world. (all of whom use Gobbler in their workflows) a breach of privacy or security would be a massive failure for us. As such we have many layers of security and privacy controls to ensure this. 
 
We one of very few cloud companies which actually encrypts your data on the client side to that even a man in the middle attack on your data would be rendered useless. 
 
Granted trust is only built over time. But we have been around for more then three years and have had no breaches of privacy and security. 
 
All the best!
 
Chris
 
 

You've got my trust, Chris.

One recent thing I noticed that I thought was a win was this...

I work in very large projects in which I record whole concerts. I copy and pasted all the tracks for one song into a new project. The new project was 8 gb because the clips referenced the full wave files for the concert. . Most of that data had already been backed up. Gobbler did not redundantly back up those wave files. It only uploaded the new stuff.

gswitz
You've got my trust, Chris.

One recent thing I noticed that I thought was a win was this...

I work in very large projects in which I record whole concerts. I copy and pasted all the tracks for one song into a new project. The new project was 8 gb because the clips referenced the full wave files for the concert. . Most of that data had already been backed up. Gobbler did not redundantly back up those wave files. It only uploaded the new stuff.

Oh cool! Yeah that is one of the neat things about Gobbler we really work hard to eliminate sending redundant data. Sounds like you are working with a lot of data. We have a new uploader in beta right now that we are expecting to 2x the speed of uploads. It should be going public very shortly. 
 
All the
 
Chris

If you want backup you data files try this.
250 Gb for 92.5$ over 1 year.
This is programs have more functions.

Think about it:
http://www.mypcbackup.com/

Don`t buy it after registration. Wait 10 days or... 15 and after:

I have used StartLogic for 7+ years now, and their "Pro" option includes:
   Unlimited Bandwidth
   Unlimited Disk Space
   Unlimited Email Accounts
   Unlimited Domains
 
A domain costs ~$10 per year, and the "Pro" plan is $5.99/month for the first year (after that is $7.49/month, or as low as $5.49/month if you extend 3 years at a time).
 
The only caveat is that they benchmark bandwidth and disk space, so may limit these if you get too crazy with it. If you do not load an index file to a domain, nothing can be accessed without an explicit link to files internally.
 
I posted this thread for sharke yesterday about ways to use a personal domain as a backup option.
 
Edit: LRR's post about collaboration is a good one. Using the net for collaboration is great, but as "backup" is not the best alternative.

Microtonic
If you want backup you data files try this.
250 Gb for 92.5$ over 1 year.
This is programs have more functions.

Think about it:


Don`t buy it after registration. Wait 10 days or... 15 and after:

These are all great services. Gobbler is really meant to be a active workflow tool. Monitoring your projects and versioning them so you can roll back at any time. Giving you super fast and reliable ways to transfer unlimited size projects to your collaborators. For long term archival storage there are great products out there which will allow you to dump data at a low price and we highly recommend them if that is the stated purpose. Our $4 per month plan gives you unlimited send capabilities. It might be worth trying Gobbler (as we do have a free version) and see if the improvements we have made over some of these services is advantageous.  You can always use Gobbler for free. It's always good to have as many arrows in your creative quiver as possible.
 
All the best!
 
Chris

O.K. -
How about this scenerio:
 
I use You Send It (Now called HighTail) to upload files that customers can then download.
 
I see on the Gobbler site that you can transfer files to clients who are not Gobbler customers.
 
Does this work similar to Hightail's "SEND" (upload files & send a link to client) function?
 
That is the feature I would use the most...
 
Kudos,
MG

drummaman
O.K. -
How about this scenerio:
I use You Send It (Now called HighTail) to upload files that customers can then download.
I see on the Gobbler site that you can transfer files to clients who are not Gobbler customers.
Does this work similar to Hightail's "SEND" (upload files & send a link to client) function?
That is the feature I would use the most...
Kudos,
MG

Not a problem with Gobbler. There is a "send public link" check box you can select when sending files and the receiving party can download files sent with out having a Gobbler account or having to sign up for Gobbler. 
 
All the best!
 
Chris

I'm having a bit of trouble with Gobbler. Upload and backup times are crazy slow-it took nearly 3 hours to send a 1 gig Sonar file to a client. That said, I've been in contact with tech support and they have been really great! Still trying to solve the issue but it's nice to work with a company that wants to solve my problem and do it in a friendly, helpful way. I love the idea of Gobbler but at the speeds I'm getting it's impracticable for me. I hope it gets resolved.

southpaw3473
I'm having a bit of trouble with Gobbler. Upload and backup times are crazy slow-it took nearly 3 hours to send a 1 gig Sonar file to a client. That said, I've been in contact with tech support and they have been really great! Still trying to solve the issue but it's nice to work with a company that wants to solve my problem and do it in a friendly, helpful way. I love the idea of Gobbler but at the speeds I'm getting it's impracticable for me. I hope it gets resolved.

Same here, southpaw3473 (See my earlier post on this thread from October 01, 13 11:45 AM)
I'm uploading a 1Gig project at the moment. After 1 hour it is at 23%, pausing, encrypting, reduping and resuming in frequent intervals. From my experience, Gobbler works really fast once I have the complete project uploaded and keep on working on it. Gobbler backs up after every save in Sonar. For me the best way to use it, is to have it in new projects right from scratch.
I haven't send files with Gobbler yet nor have I downloaded a file yet, so I can't tell about the speed, but why should a download run faster than an upload...  As long as the backed up files stay intact I'm ok with using Gobbler. If the back up speed would speed up I would be happy to use Gobbler.
 
Cheers,