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--On May 16, 2008 4:26:34 AM -0700 Edward Reid <edwardpaleo.org> wrote:
> can only install it on one computer. To contrast with one competitor,
> Jungle Disk explicitly allows as many installations as desired; one
> license
> is required per Amazon S3 account. (JD stores backups using Amazon S3
> rather than on their own servers.)

I would point out that Amazon S3 isn't free either, you pay for data
transfers and storage each month. I was going to use Amazon S3 to keep a
simple duplicate of my iTunes library (via the S3Sync Ruby program) when
the official Mozy for the Mac client came out. The cost was significantly
cheaper for backing up my one Mac.

Amazon S3 costs $.15/GB per month. So if you plan on backing up more than
40GB, you might want to find a way to get that data on to a central
computer and back up from there to Mozy. You'll pay an additional $4 the
first time you upload your 40 GB to S3 as well.

Not sure if it is still the case but Amazon had problems with files over
2GB (officially they support files up to 5GB). Jungle disk may handle
splitting large files for you, I've not used it since the first beta.

Personally, I'm using Mozy to backup my Mac mini and Amazon S3 to backup my
Linux boxes (via Duplicity). My backup size on the mini is 262GB, and yes
it's going to take forever to get the initial data on the system.
Fortunately 99% of the data never changes so once the first transfer is
done it'll be much faster.

I been wondering . . . is Mozy independent or owned by somebody?
That's another factor to consider in the S3/Jungledisk vs Mozy vs
somebody else off site backup evaluation. Amazon isn't going away for
sure but if Mozy is a startup they might not be around next year. That
would render your backups gone . . . and while you could always switch
providers later you would lose all of the old versions of files.

[As I stated in my article, Mozy is owned by EMC, which also owns Retrospect (among many other things). Pretty huge company - not in any danger of disappearing! -Joe]

--On May 17, 2008 3:23:16 PM -0700 Neil Laubenthal <neillaubenthal.net>
wrote:

> I been wondering . . . is Mozy independent or owned by somebody?

Mozy is owned by EMC. They also own VMWare and Retrospect. They're one of
the largest manufacturers of high-availabilty storage systems around.

> That's another factor to consider in the S3/Jungledisk vs Mozy vs
> somebody else off site backup evaluation. Amazon isn't going away for
> sure but if Mozy is a startup they might not be around next year. That
> would render your backups gone . . . and while you could always switch
> providers later you would lose all of the old versions of files.

EMC is as unlikely to disappear as Amazon. I wouldn't be surprised if
Amazon uses EMC storage hardware in their back end.

They're also making Mozy available in an Enterprise solution, which means
they've commited to the service pretty throughly at this time.

<http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2008/012208.htm>

Kevin

>They're also making Mozy available in an Enterprise solution, which means
>they've commited to the service pretty throughly at this time.
>
><http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2008/012208.htm>

Interesting pricing:

> Desktop/laptop - $5.25/mo. per desktop/laptop plus
>$0.70/mo. per gigabyte protected
> Windows Server - $9.25/mo. per supported Windows
>server plus $2.35/mo. per gigabyte protected

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Andrew Laurence
atlaurenuci.edu

On May 19, 2008, at 07:23, Kevin van Haaren wrote:

> Mozy is owned by EMC. They also own VMWare and Retrospect. They're
> one of
> the largest manufacturers of high-availabilty storage systems around.

I thought that was what I remembered . . . guess they won't be going
away anytime soon then.