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6% |
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13% |
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| Never. The angels are watching over me. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Demophobe wrote: |
People get their e-mail accounts closed for e-mailing "suspect" attachments. What does that say? They are watching. The Net has given us all away, and we don't even know it!
Online storage is a bad idea. I have so many grad school files, word-related, personal details...things that just don't need to be shown around. It is wise to remember that these days you don't have to be engaging in criminal activity to get in trouble. Fit the mold, they will put you in it.
Does anyone really read the terms of use? They count on you not doing so.
You make the options sound like a rock and a hard place; lose it or share it with strangers.  |
You don't share your entire hard drive. You put everything you want backed up into one file.
My computer has a second 'key' that opens personal files, or anything I want protected.
No one can get access without that key.
I read some tech reviews of Mozy a while back, and nothing rang any alarms. If you can point me to a cause for concern, I'd appreciate it. |
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faster
Joined: 03 Sep 2006
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| I copy crucial files to an external hard drive. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:10 am Post subject: |
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| the eye wrote: |
You don't share your entire hard drive. You put everything you want backed up into one file.
My computer has a second 'key' that opens personal files, or anything I want protected.
No one can get access without that key.
I read some tech reviews of Mozy a while back, and nothing rang any alarms. If you can point me to a cause for concern, I'd appreciate it. |
Nothing particular. If you encrypt the files beforehand, then cool. |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: |
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Hey, I just signed up for Mozy, and it was pretty painless.
The service suggested some stuff from my hard drive to backup as a first test, offering the option of unchecking any or all of it. I just left my IE favorites checked.
It then was set to rebackup it on a frequent schedule. Not so good. I unchecked the schedule bit. I want to know what it's doing.
At any rate, I'm going to give it a try.
It offers the option of Mozy's 448 bit encryption, or using your own.
If you want to give it a try, you can use my referral number https://mozy.com/?ref=28MWCM and get some extra storage space; I get the same amount.
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Get an extra gigabyte for every 4 people you refer to Mozy.
You're protecting your data with Mozy - why not invite your friends and family to do the same? If their hard drives crash, and they find out you didn't fill them in on Mozy, it won't be a good scene.
It's easy.
Just copy and paste the following URL in an email to the people you'd like to invite to use Mozy:
https://mozy.com/?ref=28MWCM
For every person that clicks on that link and starts using Mozy*, you'll both get another 256MB of free backup space. That's right, you get extra space, and so do they. That's 1GB of free space for every four people! (We have powerful computers here that can do that sort of math.) For a limited time, there is no limit on the free space you can get.
It's as easy as that.
Alternatively, you can tell people to enter your referral code - 28MWCM - during the registration process. |
Maybe next time I try it I'll back up all my postings on Dave's. |
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the eye
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Use your own encryption and lock your personall files. |
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