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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Through an odd set of links, I arrived at this page:</FONT></B>
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<P><B></B><A HREF="http://www.discourse.net/archives/2008/02/mozy_understands_how_to_write_warnings.html"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Courier New">http://www.discourse.net/archives/2008/02/mozy_understands_how_to_write_warnings.html</FONT></U></B></A><B></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Read that page first for the laugh, but then take a look at their site -- it's an online backup service that is using a bit of "Miracle on 34th street" style advertising -- they /say/ you don't need to use their services, after all, you've got choices...</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">[from </FONT></B><A HREF="http://mozy.com/home"><B><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Courier New">http://mozy.com/home</FONT></U></B></A><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">]</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">You're Free To Choose</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">Alternatives to MozyHome</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> * Burn a new CD or DVD every Sunday night and store it at your brother-in-law's office.</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> * Pay $200/year for an online backup service that uses old, mediocre software.</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> * Buy a $200 external hard drive and hope your office doesn't burn down.</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> * Do nothing and don't worry about backup. (We suggest closing your eyes, plugging your ears and repeating "I'm in my happy place, I'm in my happy place.")</FONT></B></P>
<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New"> * Run a cron job of rsync, gzip and mcrypt piped over ssh to your friend's server over his DSL line.</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">I don't see a problem with that last suggestion, do you? ;)</FONT></B>
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<P><B><FONT FACE="Courier New">[as you might guess, Linux isn't a supported platform -- kinda makes that last suggestion rather ironic as you'd have to install linux in order to do that in the first place...]</FONT></B></P>
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