See my blog
July 30, 2007. I griped about Mozy on my CNET blog.
See
Everybody
likes Mozy - except me. Part 1. In brief, I don't like backup software that runs all the time and
I'm wary of depending on new version 1 software for something as important as file backups.
You can't use their web interface to backup files and they charge more for each computer that
you want to backup from. And the big point was that they delete your file backups if you
delete the original file from your computer.
Everybody
likes Mozy - except me. Part 2. July 31, 2007. Two more articles with positive things to say about Mozy,
lead off this blog posting. Then I explain how the encryption offered by Mozy may not offer all the security
you think it does. In fairness to Mozy, I don't like the idea of any company that is storing my files
providing software to encrypt them. Instead, I prefer to get the two services from two different
companies. There are gripes about restoring files and other gripes too.
Finally, I end up discussing warranties. An article by Ed Foster describes how five different
backup services don't guarantee anything at all.
