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Barracuda Copy Shutting Down (barracuda.com)

Posted by timothy on from the someone-should-back-it-up-or-copy-it dept.

New submitter assaf07 writes: I received a notification [Monday] that Barracuda's excellent online storage option Copy will be shuttting down in May. A blog post by Rod Matthews, VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse. Having used Google's Drive, Box, Dropbox, and Spideroak, I am very disappointed to lose Copy as its native Linux, Android, IOS, and Windows clients are/were wonderful.

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  1. Duplication by Bob_Who · · Score: 2

    VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.

    That's just like a good clone.

    1. Re:Duplication by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Informative

      VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.

      That's just like a good clone.

      Some of the doublespeak in question, from the first paragraph in TFA:

      We are constantly evaluating our product portfolio in the context of our overall strategic goals. With that in mind, we have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products.

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    2. Re:Duplication by MobSwatter · · Score: 2

      What is in question is probably the part that the NSA isn't giving perks for promoting easily accessible cloud storage anymore so why bother with the app?

  2. ownCLoud by Pvt_Ryan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just use owncloud with a hp n40L (or whatever the current model is). Has native windows / Linux clients and android app.. (I assume it does apple too but havent looked as i have no apple products)

    1. Re:ownCLoud by bobbied · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Backup off site is easy...

      I use Open Media Vault which has a plugin that you can copy your entire share onto a USB or eSATA device any time it's plugged in. So I have a RAID 5 array that gets me about 3 Tb of space on 4 drives (and a hot spare). I bought three 3 TB drives and I just rotate them between my offsite location (my work desk drawer) the fire poof lock box in the closet and the file server on a regular basis. This way I generally will have 5 copies of all my data (two in the RAID, one on the attached drive and two external) most of the time. Overkill? Yea, but it's simple.

      When I fill up the 3TB or the cheap 1TB drives start to fail, I'll buy a couple of 6TB drives, grow the array by substituting the 1TB drives one at a time with my 3TB backups and a couple of new ones which will be cheap by then and continue the rotation strategy.

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  3. Follow the money? by dkman · · Score: 2

    Does Backup have everything that Cuda and Copy do, but cost more. It sounds like one of those "these services that you actually use because they're cheap are going away to steer you toward our more costly services" kind of articles.

    It may be that those costly services don't even have the functionality you were using (ie a Linux client).

    I could be off-base and Backup is pretty different from Copy. I haven't used either.

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    1. Re:Follow the money? by scdeimos · · Score: 2
      You're probably correct otherwise this statement from the blog post makes no sense:

      We certainly do not take this lightly, and we appreciate the millions of customers who have used the service, as well as the hard work and dedication of our product team over the past 4+ years.

      If they had millions of customers surely that's a decent chunk of revenue ... or is nobody actually paying for the service?

  4. Isn't important by 110010001000 · · Score: 2

    You just switch to a different Cloud, because Cloud services are interchangeable. Right? Right?

  5. What doesn't google or dropbox do that this did? by Harlequin80 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I never used this particular system but have used both dropbox and Google drive happily across multiple OS types and I can't figure out what I am missing out on.

    Personally I use google drive which has native clients for mac & windows and use the google-drive-ocamlfuse system to mount google drive in Linux. It is easy to setup and works perfectly. http://gdfuse.forge.ocamlcore....

  6. The usual business doublespeak excuse.... by DRJlaw · · Score: 2

    A blog post by Rod Matthews, VP of Storage at Barracuda gives the usual business doublespeak excuse.

    You'd rather they simply posted "Take this job [order] and shove it, we ain't working here no more..."?

    How about "assaf08 offered us a promotion and 50% more money so here's our 3 months notice..."?

    Finally, there's "A monkey could do this job and our skills are being wasted, so before you outsource us to China we are so out of here..."

    "[W]e have begun a process to focus our resources on our most strategic initiatives and to drive more innovation and faster growth within those products" is not doublespeak, it means that you are 1. not strategic 2. technologically stuck in the '00s and 3. a black pit of cheapitude. It's not doublespeak, it's an overly polite way to tell you not to let the door hit your ass on the way out.

  7. Re:"the usual business doublespeak excuse" by BarbaraHudson · · Score: 2

    No, you're translating the doublespeak wrong. Proper translation: "We can't make money with this, so we're moving it to the cloud, because CLOUD!"

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