Re: Mozy

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

 Sounds like a decent service. 
On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:57:47 -0400 
Al Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> rsync's basic dollar sixty a month does not seem like much, but it is 
> per gigabyte with a minimum of three gigabytes. In a way, the pro-rated 
> cost disciplines you to consider what you really need to keep on your 
> system or protect from loss. I set my account to six gig to start. I am 
> still in the process of determining if it is too much or too little.. 
> 
> 
> <QUOTE> 
> Account Details 
> 
> - Your account includes unlimited inbound and outbound data transfer 
> - IPV4 and IPV6 network connectivity 
> - Automate with SSH keys 
> - Remote SSH commands (md5, mv, cp, rm, svnserve, dd, etc.) supported 
> - Multiple logins and custom access/permissions 
> - Encrypted Filesystem Support 
> 
> <SNIP> 
> 
> Discounts exist for open source developers and educators/students 
> </QUOTE> 
> 
> 
> http://www.rsync.net/products/index.html
> 
> 
> 
> Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> 
> > 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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