Time Machine Mac OS X Lion Upgrade for Online Backup Dolly Drive

Cloud-services provider Cirrus Thinking LLC reported that all of Apple Inc.‘s Time Machine Lion upgrades are functional in the Lion version of the Dolly Drive online backup service.

Lion features available in Dolly Drive include Time Machine’s offline local snapshots, combined timeline, upload time status bar, user interface, and speed and stability. Both new users and current subscribers have seen easy moves to the Lion OS.

Additionally, clients who use Dolly Drive as a NAS replacement have avoided the interruptions that local NAS solutions have been experiencing when installing Lion.

"The upgrades to Time Machine have been one of the most exciting things about the release of Lion and the Dolly Drive development team made sure they were available to Lion users from day one," said Anthony Palermo, Dolly Drive CEO. "Fortunately, as a native to Mac backup solution, it’s easier for us to build exclusively for the Mac experience and avoid the challenges that many other providers face when trying to retrofit a Mac solution into a PC-based offering."

Dolly Drive is a subscription software and online storage service designed for Apple’s Time Machine. In addition to providing Mac users offsite cloud storage directly through the Time Machine application, the application allows users to create a bootable clone of their Mac on an external hard drive for local disaster recovery.

A free standalone version of Dolly Clone is available. Launched in January, Dolly Drive was named MacLife magazine’s best of show and best software at MacWorld 2011.