Re: Mozy

["Daniel Feenberg" <user=12@nabble.blu.org>]

 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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