>Indeed I am a cautionary tale for treating Synchronization as Backup

 

Indeed! I don't know why all of the providers I've tried so far are obsessed
with mirror/sync backups. I just wanted a "drive in the cloud", not some
kind of ROBOCOPY /MIR command into the cloud. As Mike's page says a mirror
is not a backup; what happens if my local copy goes haywire, or is scrubbed,
or moved or renamed, or whatever? Then you have this management hassle which
would probably overwhelm average suburban carbon blobs, let alone me. Mozy
says it hides (not deletes) files for 30 days, so you have a cool-off
period, but whoop-de-doo for more complexity.

 

I'm probably going to drop Mozy because it's another one of these mirroring
facilities, which is too smart for its own good. I just want a "drive in the
cloud" that I manage. Sheesh! Is this too much to ask?

 

I must re-ask previous respondents which of their providers is just a
storage area, not a mirror?

 

Cheers,

Greg

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