Windowers, backup your data to the Internet

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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. 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.

https://mozy.com/ref/UXJZ7L
 
Whoo Whoo thanks for giving us all your data.
We will be searching all your files for your passwords and bank account
information.

You will never catch me doing what you did. LOL
 
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.
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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!
Click to expand...
I'ts free and contains no spyware.
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Free, maybe. But, how do you know there's no spyware? You think
they tell you?
https://mozy.com/ref/UXJZ7L
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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.

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this the War Room!" - From
the movie 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb'
 
Today Bob I commented courteously on the subject at hand
Do I smell "blackmail/extortion/dataloss" in that internet
scheme?
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Yes, conspirators hide under rocks, doncha know? <grin>

--
ATM, aka Jerry

"Gentleman, you can't fight in here, this the War Room!" - From
the movie 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and
Love the Bomb'
 
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. 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.

https://mozy.com/ref/UXJZ7L
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There's a little link at the bottom of the main page. It says "terms."

One of those terms is that you've agreed that the spam they send you, on
their own behalf and on the behalf of third parties, is not spam. And if
you don't want their spam, you may feel free to close your account.

One more interesting item is this:

"Certain third party code may be provided with the Software."

Berkeley gives you two gigabytes for free. You could've backed up your
data to gmail with about as much safety and far less intrusion. But why
didn't you just back up manually to a couple of CDs? It's a pain in the
tuchis, but isn't your data worth it?

I don't have a paranoia about privacy, but this just doesn't seem like a
very good idea to me.

rl
 
Mozy Remote Backup. Currently in beta, it was
awarded PC Magazine's Editors Choice (05/19/2006) (link :
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1951151,00.asp )

You get 2 Gig of free online space. Of course your data is encrypted
with a 448-bit encryption key that you can generate, so nobody can read
your files, not Mozy, not even the FBI...

There is a referral program so you can get more free storage. Get 256
Mb per referral.

The software is free, no spyware, no banners, no bundled unwanted
software. Mozy just send you an ad by email per week, that's all.

For personal use, tape backup is not that good, disks is expensive...
try Mozy online backup!
It has professional-grade features like open-file agent, block-level
differentials and more!

If you sign-up with mozy, you can get 256 Mb more storage for free !
Sign-up with my referral link ( https://mozy.com/ref/UXJZ7L ) or enter
referral code UXJZ7L in the sign-up form.

Happy backup!
 
(e-mail address removed) wrote:

<spam snipped>

Oh that was slick, dude. Do you think anyone is going to use a spammer's
referral code?

<shakes head>

rl
 
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