February 19, 2008
Mozy Understands How to Write Warnings
Online backup provider Mozy.com offers 2GB of free storage to the home user.
You can use their encryption key — which means it’s recoverable: they have a backdoor if you loose lose it, or if someone else turns up with a subpoena — or you can grow your own.
I chose the latter. Which produced this great warning pop-up:
I understand that if I ever lose this key, that neither I nor MozyHome will be able to decrypt my data and I will be hosed.
I clicked “yes”.
(Only later did I find out that Mozy will only backup files resident on a fixed disk. I wanted to back up my USB drive. Oh well. At least I got a laugh.)
Posted by Michael : February 19, 2008 11:38 AM | Cryptography , Internet | TechnoLinks
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I use a scheduled SyncBack job to copy my USB drive to a fixed drive, then point Mozy to that. Good workaround and SyncBack is rock-solid (and the free version works just fine for most things).
Posted by: Eagle at February 19, 2008 06:50 PMI actually decided to buy storage from Mozy so I could back up all my files, including music. It does take an awful long time for Mozy to work through the system. And at one point I got a series of errors that disabled backup. I give Mozy credit they worked at it for two weeks and cracked the problem. And they gave me credit for lost time.
Nevertheless, of the online backup systems I think it is the best value for money.
Posted by: John Flood at February 19, 2008 07:14 PMI began using Mozy, but afterwards I discover docoom (www.docoom.com), which is easier and cheaper. You can also install it on several computers paying the same prize, so I can backup my PC and laptop for just 2.60$ each month (10 GB).
Posted by: Reli at February 20, 2008 04:59 AMMozy writes clearly but ungrammatically: the repeated "that" is superfluous and has no antecedent.
Posted by: James Wimberley at February 20, 2008 01:35 PMThe passage "they have a backdoor if you loose it" contains a typographical error of the word "lose".
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