Comments on: Mozy (aka how not to backup your files) http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/ Technology & Venture Capital. Early stage venture capital news mixed with personal views and comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Stefan Tirtey http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-328 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:22:17 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-328 I use jungledisk and Amazon S3 on both MAC and PC – and thus far it works OK. The app has actually reached a very high level of maturity since I first started using it. It’s much more expensive though, unfortunately, because of S3.

]]> By: Jason Ball http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-305 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:19:02 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-305 @ Poonam

I can definitely empathize with you. There’s not a lot that can be done in these cases- I’m doing what you’ve done and what other’s will hopefully do- publish our sour experiences on the web, so that other people can find them, and make their own decisions before using these service providers.

For me, I’m keeping my own data from now on (see comment above).

Hope you got your files back.

]]> By: Jason Ball http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-304 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:21:44 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-304 Max, luckily I trust nothing and no one – having lost a hard drive many years ago. I had an external bootable copy of my HD in my drawer at the office (SuperDuper! to the rescue). Plus, I keep my most recently changed files on .mac via Backup. So in the end, disaster was averted (no thanks to Mozy).

I now have a 1TB Time Capsule, two external drives that I rotate plus .mac backups…

]]> By: Leonid S. Knyshov http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-303 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:49:18 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-303 Jason,

Do you still have the original disk? I may be able to help get your data back regardless of mozy. :)

Also have a nifty idea around data recovery that could be VC-scale.

Leonid

]]> By: Poonam http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-302 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:40:52 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-302 Hi Jason, Shefaly has already provided the link to my story above.

What did you do after complaining and writing about your story? Are you going to let Mozy get away with this? Thing is all other online companies may follow suit causing us web workers a nightmare? Do we not have any legal option?

]]> By: Shefaly http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-301 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:19:31 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-301 Jason, how about being held hostage to access your own data, as the experience of my friend Poonam (in India) shows:

http://alchemistpoonam.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/streamloadmediamaxlinkup-cheats-and-offenders-on-web/

]]> By: Max Bleyleben http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-300 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:05:08 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-300 Sorry to hear about your pain Jason. I use Mozy to back up my Mac too (no need for a restore yet), but only as second-line backup. I use TimeMachine to an external hard drive as primary backup (fine so long as your house doesn’t burn down).

Let us know if you find another good online backup service for Mac. I’ve been waiting for Carbon Copy to become available for Mac – heard good things about that one.

]]> By: Jennifer http://jasonball.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-299 Fri, 30 May 2008 05:53:06 +0000 http://jasonball.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/mozy-aka-how-not-to-backup-your-files/#comment-299 On the subject of file backup, sharing and storage …

Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC’s will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade.

Thousands of online backup companies exist, from one guy operating in his apartment to fortune 500 companies.

Choosing the best online backup company will be very confusing and difficult. One website I find very helpful in making a decision to pick an online backup company is:

http://www.BackupReview.info

This site lists more than 400 online backup companies in its directory and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.

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