These steps are all pretty standard these days but it is still a pain. You have to go through some sign-up steps online, solve a CAPTCHA and then respond to an email message to prove it’s really you. I signed up for the free online backup account at that I mentioned yesterday. This could include adding permissions to files denoting who can access them. Mozy could go further with a file sharing service. Maybe things have not got better in ten years. ![]() I remember from my dot com days that was a huge impediment to our developing internet telephony services. Maybe the problem is that they don’t have a sophisticated billing system. They could offer incremental storage upgrades in, say, 1GB chunks and guarantee that they will never delete a user’s file. ![]() I don’t know why their only choise for individuals beyond the 2GB free account is an unlimited storage option. So offer it to them at a reasonable cost. They know that some users want an archive or file sharing service. My view is that Mozy should be a bit more sophisticated. Mozy must believe that 30 days is plenty long enough for a user to discover she’s deleted a file accidentally and get is back from Mozy. So in that case a backup is as good as an archive. Likewise I could share my credentials with my friends or colleagues and they could all retrieve files with no extra revenue to Mozy.īut of course if I backup my files to a CD, DVD or tape (showing my age here) then they never disappear. Especially with their paid plan that provides unlimited storage users could upload terabytes of data to their data centres and delete them from their computers. Because MozyHome is intended as a backup solution, as you delete files from your computer they are also deleted from the Mozy data centers after 30 days. ![]() Please note that MozyHome is not a file sharing or archiving service. This is the “Welcome” screen for the MozyHome backup configuration utility.
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