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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/
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