Re: Windowers, backup your data to the Internet

Do I smell "blackmail/extortion/dataloss" in that internet scheme?

All Things Mopar wrote:

Today commented courteously on the subject at hand


Last week , my laptop's hard drive died. I did not have any
tape or disk backup solution... However, last month a
friend told me about a free internet-based backup solution.


Hmmm. "Friend"?


I tried the product and it worked well. I replaced my dead
hard drive by a new one, re-installed Windows XP and
restored my 1.4 GB personal backup from the intenet!

This product is a life saver for those like me that does
not have tape backup devices!


I'ts free and contains no spyware.


Free, maybe. But, how do you know there's no spyware? You think they tell you?


https://mozy.com/ref/UXJZ7L


Just curious. How's the security here? Or speed? For less than a buck a gig you can buy external HD in anything from 40 to 1,000. That is a far safer and more reliable backup method, and one you can use in a rotating "grandfather" mode to an off-site location.

Sure hope you didn't upload anything confidential. If you did, it is all over the world by now.


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