Re: Mozy

["Al Wheeler-2" <user=1343@nabble.blu.org>]

 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/