Simon Willison’s Weblog

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage. Explains how Backblaze can operate an unlimited backup service for five dollars a month—their custom storage hardware stores 67 terabytes for $7,867.

# 6th September 2009, 9:27 pm / backblaze, backup, storage

iPhone Backup Extractor possibilities (via) Nick Ludlam points out that iTunes backs up your iPhone call records by copying across a sqlite database—which means it wouldn’t be at all hard to extract the logs in to a larger database. Could make for a really cool addition to a private lifestreaming application.

# 10th November 2008, 10:41 pm / backup, iphone, itunes, lifestream, nickludlam, sqlite