Sites like Amazon S3 and Rackspace are just big wabs of endless disk space in the "cloud" and don't do anything except provide big wabs of endless disk space. It's the software that you use to access these disks that determines what features they provide and if they are backup / sync / mirror types, with or without the previous version / deleted / archiving support.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > >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 >
