![]() Wuala will not immediately delete your files however, and you have the opportunity to contact them and inform them of the downtime. You will probably lose most, if not all of your traded storage. Say you go on vacation and shut down your computer(s) for a few weeks. Since you have to be online a certain amount of time, there are ramifications if you go offline. You can trade as little or as much as you like, but are limited to a maximum of 100GB per computer. Trading presents an interesting option for many users. Trading requires your computer be available at least four hours a day. The exact amount of storage is determined by how often your computer is accessible (meaning Wuala’s client is running and online). By allocating storage on your local machine, you get up to that much storage on Wuala’s cloud. Sure enough, it’s basically Buddy Backup with a twist. ![]() I had a strange feeling of déjà vu here. The other way to “Go Pro†is through “trading†storage. Free and paid accounts get access to all features including Automatic Sync, File Revisions and Backup There’s also a feature called “Time Travel†that is unexplained on the main site. , which do not get Automatic Sync, File Revisions, or Backup. Everyone starts off with a 1 GB Free Account. Wuala offers some interesting account concepts. However, the team from Zurich appears to have been mostly left intact, so Wuala works fairly flawlessly. And SmallNetBuilder readers know that LaCie NAS products can be hit or miss. My experience with storage providers providing online storage has been a little rough, to say the least. I was originally a little dubious of Wuala. Since it’s Java-based, Wuala is cross platform with equal Windows, Mac, and Linux support. But now offers itself as both web and stand alone apps. ![]() It was originally designed to run in a web browser as a Java applet. Wuala got its start as a project by a group of students at Switzerland’s Swiss Federal Institue of Technology. Wuala came from a merger between LaCie and Wuala’s creator, Caleido AG. Wuala is LaCie’s entry in the cloud backup and storage markets. Updated 3/16/10: Wuala has added an iPhone application so your files can now be accessed remotely. Versioning is a useful feature that allows you to revert to a previous version of a file in case you make a change you wish you hadn't.Updated 10/20/11: Feature updates. Unfortunately versioning isn't available for synchronised files, only on backed up files. ![]() It's a subtle distinction that isn't well explained in Wuala's documentation. Unlike a backed up file which is only stored on one computer and online, a synchronised file can be stored on multiple computers as well as online and changes made on one computer are automatically reflected in the other copies. The program is also used to pick files for synchronising. If you make a change to a file, the entire file must be uploaded again, rather than just a small segment, which would be annoying on very large files such as videos. There's no web interface to access your files - you have to install a Java app, which works on Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and the iPhone. You can upload and download files to your online storage using either the Wuala program or Windows Explorer, but the Explorer integration still requires the program to be installed.
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