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   awesome, awesome, awesome post!

   back it up – never rely on anyone else to protect your work. it’s your work, thus it’s your responsibility!

   i love developing on Sim-on-a-Stick because i quickly do an OAR save while i shut it down and i also create an SoaS for each project i am currently working on (including two on my day job PC being developed for corporate use)

   then once i am done, i put it wherever – that is Kitely now and their backups are easy to do as Maria indicated above

   i do backups of Enclave Harbour on Kitely regularly and save those to my home machine, an external HD, and a USB stick

   if take the time and energy to build a region, then take the time to save it =)

   thanks Maria!

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   Hi Maria,

   Kitely is committed to protecting content creators intellectual property. That is why we developed filtered OAR exports. Kitely doesn’t currently provide IAR and Hypergrid access but once we do we intend to filter them using the same policy we now use for OAR exports: you can only export items you created yourself and items for which you have both Copy and Transfer permissions.

   For additional information about how Kitely’s OAR file content filtering works please see: http://blog.kitely.com/2011/08/28/copy-world-respects-permissions/

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   I like Kitely’s OAR import/export. Easy interface and quite useful. I use google drive to save all my RAWs, Oars, textures, scripts and xmls in case of windows or harddrive issues.

   One can save their terrain work in any grid using the estate tools..something I highly recommend if one has spent some time working on getting their terrain –just right–. The resulting RAW file is only 832 kbs.

   I look forward to IAR saving in kitely…would be very useful.

   Good article, I have been telling people some of these things for some time now, especially in light of the very good point you made concerning having account access removed by a grid owner. People tend to trust grid owners blindly to have their content safeguarded..this is foolish. I am all for a person taking all this control into their own hands, other than, of course, the simple fact that anything they put in a grid is –also– then owned by that grid.

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   At Dreamland Metaverse we offer saving and loading OAR and IAR archive files using our easy to use control panel. You can choose a number of options and shortly afterwards you have a local copy of your region’s or inventory contents on your local computer. All that is very easy to use.

   Beside that we do daily database backups to protect your contents. You can restore to the dialy backups of the last 5 days yourself, using the backup/restore control panel function. This way you easily revert to a previous states of your OpenSim region.

   Another feature is that you can create up to 4 additional database snapshots that are stored for an unlimited time and that you can save and restore as you like. This way you can use your region for multiple purposes or you use that feature to backup important development steps.

   Once a week we also save backup files at a remote location, so that even in the case of big disasters your contents is kept safe.

   One important aspect from our perspective is, that data is always stored redundantly. The data of all the OpenSim grids and regions we host as well as all backup data is stored on redundant disk space. This way the chances of ever having to use a backup is significantly lower compared to hosting solutions not offering such data storage redundancy.

   We recommend everybody to have a close look at hosting providers if they have a complete data protection and backup strategy. Your virtual world contents is too valuable to get lost!

   You should choose a partner who you can trust that your data is stored safely and that the chances of having to use backups is nearly zero. Redundant data storage is essential in that respect. If anyway some day you need to restore some data, you should be sure, that you will get full support restoring your contents.

   Snoopy Pfeffer

   Founder & CEO of Dreamland Metaverse

   http://www.dreamlandmetaverse.com/

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      very nice-))