[ale] Mozy is changing the pricing model.

[david at systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)]

On 02/02/2011 02:20 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> SpiderOak
> 
> $0.10/GB / month.
> Sold in 100GB chunks (ie. $10/month chunks)
> First 2 GB free
> 20% discount to openSUSE users.  (And other?)
> Fairly nice GUI.  Supports Windows and Linux.
> 
> So you can sign up for a 2GB account now and test to your hearts content.
> 
> fyi: I have a 300GB account with them and backup a couple small
> fileservers.  I find the software is not as reliable as I would like.
> Better for desktop use than for unattended server use.  ie. Invoking
> the backup via cron doesn't work very well, even though it is
> supported.
> 
> Greg

IMO, "doesn't work very well" is an understatement.  My server's
SpiderOak throws errors regularly.  I also find their mechanism of
keeping copies indefinitely irritating.  I've run out of my 100GB of
space several times, when I really only have ~$70GB of data.

David