Barracuda Copy Shutting Down (barracuda.com)

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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ownCLoud

[Pvt_Ryan]

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)

Re:ownCLoud

[bobbied]

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.

What doesn't google or dropbox do that this did?

[Harlequin80]

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....

Re:Duplication

[fahrbot-bot]

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.