Re: Mozy

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 Mozy is free if you are backing up <= 2GB. If you backup more it costs 
$4.95/Mo. (non-commercial) 

 On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:44:34 -0400 
Al Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Daniel Feenberg wrote: 
> 
> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> > 
> >> Mozy is a free (up to 2GB) online backup system, owned by EMC. They 
> >> have both Windows and Mac clients. I was wondering if anyone on this 
> >> list has used or investigated Mozy, and if so, have you been able to 
> >> backup from Linux. 
> > 
> > I installed this on a friends Windows laptop. It does not appear to 
> > support any sort of Unix client, and I would be very surprised if it 
> > ran under Wine. It does quite a bit of analysis on your PC data before 
> > uploading it, presumably so that deduplication occurs before uploading. 
> > 
> > It runs in the background spontaneously and was quite easy to set up. 
> > 
> > We were paying clients, and that may have been a problem, since we 
> > signed up for a commercial account when the proper account was 
> > non-profit. The price was pretty similar, so I don't know what the 
> > reason for the distinction was. In any case, they insisted and 
> > switched us to the different type of account after a month of good 
> > service. The new account never functioned as a backup, but it did 
> > complain every few minutes that we were behind on our backups. I spent 
> > quite a bit of time trying to make it work, and then trying to remove 
> > it but failed at both, Eventually I complained to the right person and 
> > they turned it off remotely, cancelled the service and refunded her 
> > money. 
> > 
> > Daniel Feenberg 
> >> 
> >> http://mozy.com/
> Check out rsync.net 
> 
> It is not free, but if you are backing up only a couple of gig it cost 
> something like $5/mo. 
> 
> Carbonite costs $50/yr for unlimited MS Windows backup. I do not know 
> what constraints are in place to protect against people going wild on 
> their storage system. 
> 
> rsync is not as simple as Carbonite to administer nor as elegant, but it 
> is not too too bad. 
> 
> I think I watched Revision3 Techzilla compare the available online 
> backup services last fall or there abouts (episodes 13 &amp; 16 - I just 
> googled). At least they talked about them. It looks like they did not 
> discuss rsync. I must have settled on rsync for the from some other 
> information. rsync has been around awhile. 
> 
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> Alfred Wheeler 
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