I have setup my home to use www.elephantdrive.com - to be secondary to
an external USB drive.

They use Amazon S3 for their backend:
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/elephantdrive/

I can setup a private key encryption and they can't ready my data.  I
get unlimited storage for $50 per year.  I get immediate access to my
data from any computer (cool!).  It think carbonite requires some
email correspondence to retrieve your files, but that could be bogus.
FYI I read somewhere about the carbonite lawsuit and they no longer
use promise controllers :-).

I addition to automatic backups, I can also use elephantdrive as a
"drag and drop" file store.  The backups can be set to run when idle
or whatever.  They have home and business accounts.  The business
accounts can have "sub accounts", I haven't looked at that.  I may
move a small business to this service after I stress test it at home.
One observation on the home service, you must be logged in for it to
run.

hth, Devin




On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Pete Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is Mozy better than Carbonite ? I dont know, they are owned by EMC and might
> have more backing but Carbonite has been in the news a lot lately over its
> lawsuit against Promise and losing the data of 7500 customers.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alex Eckelberry <[email protected]>
> To: NT System Admin Issues <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 11:22:55 AM
> Subject: RE: Mozy?
>
> I run Mozy at home on my wife's computer.  It had SERIOUS performance
> issues.  I had to tweak it a bit and it's ok now (basically, I set the
> backup window to only be between certain times).
>
> For all I know, they've fixed the perf issues.
>
> However, I met with these guys at RSA a couple of weeks ago, I think
> it's worth taking a look:
>
> http://www.backblaze.com
>
> What I like about Backblaze is (at least this was their pitch) is that
> you can backup your entire drive, not just selected files.
>
> I wouldn't get Mozy again based on the perf issues I ran into.  If not
> Backblaze, than I would look at Carbonite or Connected.
>
> Alex
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 10:48 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: Mozy?
>
> Matt,
>
> Don't forget that NTbackup goes away with Server 2K8...
>
> Joe Heaton
> Employment Training Panel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:40 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: Mozy?
>
> I just talked to one of their reps.  They don't have agents for
> exchange and SQL.  Not really a big deal since I can use NTBackup for
> exchange and maintenance jobs for SQL.  The price makes it look nice.
> Going to do some testing.
>
> On 5/6/09, Sam Cayze <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Use Pro for our business and love it; haven't used it for exc and sql
>> though.
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Matt Plahtinsky [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 3:57 PM
>> To: NT System Admin Issues
>> Subject: Mozy?
>>
>>
>> I have a small non-profit that their backup hardware just died.  I'm
>> looking into Mozy as a possible backup solution. I've heard good
> things
>> about it for backing up home computers.  Didn't know how well their
>> software works for backing up SQL and exchange though.    I like the
>> idea of not having to worry about rotating tapes and that the data is
>> stored off site.
>>
>> Has anyone setup Mozy for one of their clients and liked or disliked
> it?
>>
>> https://mozy.com/pro
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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