Antivirus And Backup Changes

I’ve spent the evening uninstalling Windows Live OneCare from three of our home machines. I bought it on a whim last year when I was able to get an introductory offer — 3 machines for $19. Renewal time is coming up but now at the real price of $49. Still not a bad price for

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Office Backups: The Journey, Part 1

I’ve had quite an education these past few months while trying to keep office backups chugging along. It’s been interesting, but I have to admit that I’m ready to be done learning for a bit. I need to get to a place where backups “just happen.”

I’ve now experienced MozyPro and SOS Online Backup.

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Mozy Issues?

I’ve been using Mozy at home for quite some time now. Generally been quite pleased with it. (that’s an affiliate link, btw)

I just noticed that none of my machines have had a successful backup for about a week now. Always end up with a “ConnectionError3.” Rebooted machines, power-cycled my firewall/router and disabled software firewalls.

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Things I Wish I’d Thought of Regarding Online Backups

Thinking about going to online backups for your home or office? I’ve been a Mozy user since last August and recently gained a lot more (unplanned) experience with the MozyPro service as well.

What follows are some things to consider. While all my experience is via the two Mozy services — and I’ve generally been

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Panic, Chaos, Doom

Let me try to lay out this series of events that has culminated in way too much time at the office this weekend.

It all began…

Six months ago I converted a development application server (aka “the vault”) to a VMware virtual machine hosted on our dev server. Worked great that way and reduced the heat load

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