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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 & 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. > > -- > > Alfred Wheeler > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >
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