Crashes Needn’t Be Fatal

Hey, liked your article. We use Mozy and are VERY HAPPY with it. But now, for some servers, we are going with <a>www.secobackup.com</a> as a trial. They appear to be cheaper and we want to use TWO providers in cloud - Mozy's storage cloud and Amazon storage cloud. This way we do not totally depend on one. Of course, we are only duplicating the most critical data to both clouds, otherwise, about 25% of our servers and desktops use SecoBackup as alternative to Mozy.
Jeff

Dan apparently has not tried to restore his files using Mozy - for 7.5 GB of data it's going to take about 12 hours. They try to get you to spend $50 to get DVDs of your data FedExed to you. To Dan and the rest of the reviewers - use the service you're actually pushing!

YOU SEE! YOU SEE! just look! KBEARES FROM MICROSOFT PROVES IT! Dan Lyons is not Microsoft's bend-over-and-shill-it man! He touted an online backup product that competes with Microsoft! IN YOUR FACE FREETARDS! I know, I know, what you'll say next is that Lyin Lyons got his off-the-books paycheck *this* time from Mozy. But come on. Really?

This article is complete validation of both Dan's journalistic integrity and his skill. So he's neither corrupt or stupid, as you freetards claim. He obviously did his due diligence on this one. He offered you several well researched options instead of just reading one press release and spewing it back verbatim.

That's your big criticism, right, FreeTards? With SCO either he was corrupt and participated in the pump-n-dump scheme, or he was too lazy or too stupid to check the facts coming from SCO and see what the rest of the world saw, that they were full of it, and either way he cost anybody who trusted his judgement a lot of money.

Well, everybody can have an off day. He acknowledged he was wrong and apologized for all the name calling of people who thought he should have checked the facts rather than reporting the press releases as fact. And to show he was over it, he light-heartedly took a few more shots at them, calling them "nerds" and "amatuer slueths" since hes' the professional, and highlighting the irony that they were all exactly right while he was sniffing glue or something. You see what a great sense of humor he has?

I know, I know, next you'll be saying that he has a history of taking somebody's corporate line in the press only to have to retract it later, like with his hit-pieces at Forbes that always seemed to say Microsoft was great and whoever their threat of the week was, was not only not viable, but Bad for America. But he's learned his lesson. Now he gets mad about it! Look at how angry he got at Yahoo after repeating their PR flacks verbatim without fact checking and it turned out they were lying! Newsweak even made him take his posts off his blog he was so mad! If righteous indignation doesn't certify your sincerity I don't know what does. Never mind the fact that he said the righteous indignation of the open source community over the false claims of SCO only meant they were irrational zeaolots.

Bottom line, Dan rocks and you suck! Deal with it!

Daniel, this was a great article, but could you send a little love our way? Just remember that an online backup in the cloud, while it is a great solution for backing up data, it is not the most robust solution for the mainline scenario of restoring a complete system that was either compromised by a virus or had a hard drive failure. Please read my article, http://blogs.technet.com/homeserver/archive/2008/12/04/facebook-trojan-virus-not-a-problem-if-you-have-a-windows-home-server.aspx. If you would like to talk to us, please let me know. kbeares at microsoft.com