Backup & Beyond (mostly beyond)

At times, I’m a ‘to do list’ freak!

I’ve even been guilty of writing up ‘to do lists’ consisting of tasks, some of which have already been completed – simply so that I can have the juvenile pleasure of ticking them as soon as I write them!

However, nothing beats the pleasure of ‘ticking off’ tasks that have been languishing in a to do list for far longer than you’d care to remember. We had the opportunity to do this earlier this week – with one of the (many) to do lists for the Vembu StoreGrid Online Backup Partner Zone…

You can now afford to Forget Your Password!

Everyday, we get up to 3 emails from partners who have forgotten their Partner Zone login name/password!

The (long pending) forgot your password feature is now up and allows you to immediately change your password, if required.

What’s more, we’ll also email you details on other members from your firm who are using the same partner zone account – so you can be nice, and let them know that they need to remember another obscure password!

The bigger piece of news: You can now Edit Build-O-Matic on Demand!

For various reasons, we’ve (so far) been ‘manually throttling’ the custom build creation process. As many of you know, each time you needed to make an edit to your custom build or create a new custom build – you needed to email us to get your form back to ‘edit’ mode. In fact, we get an average of two such requests every day – to set the form back into edit mode!

You can now do this yourself, i.e., set your form back to edit mode, as required!

Although the post title says ‘Edit on Demand’, please use your discretion when requesting new builds. We don’t have a formal cap on the number of edits you can do but since it ‘costs us’ a fair amount of bandwidth and storage each time Build-O-Matic churns out a new set of builds, we request you to be judicious about requesting new builds – that way, we’ll (hopefully) never need to place a cap on how many edits partners do.

Partners who have never forgoten their passwords and/or never edited their build settings probably won’t perceive these features to be even mildly interesting. I’m sure the others are probably cursing us for not introducing this earlier!

The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.