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Re: Today is World Backup Day

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post #10

The legal issues behind this were posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449226 The original blog post was removed (for legal reasons?), here is the cached version of it - http://goo.gl/E1gKN

hmm, though I question, who decided that is a the world backup day, its still is clear that it doesn't matter much, just like many other XYZ days that I don't follow.

But I don't see the need of legal actions around such a thing.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#22
I wonder if this would be a good time to mention that I think I've got my new open-source snapshot backup tool (up on Github) ready for a larger testing audience? I'm a bit nervous about promoting it too widely until I'm sure that it is stable enough, but if anyone wants to test it in a non-critical setup, I'd appreciate any feedback.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#23
post #10

The legal issues behind this were posted here a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5449226 The original blog post was removed (for legal reasons?), here is the cached version of it - http://goo.gl/E1gKN

hmm, though I question, who decided that is a the world backup day, its still is clear that it doesn't matter much, just like many other XYZ days that I don't follow. But I don't see the need of legal actions around such a thing.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day!

I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#24
post #2

Is it worth buying a few extra terabytes to backup? I simply don't have enough free space to even begin backing anything up.

I use CrashPlan, though there were some issues when I tried to restore deleted files (my fault, really).

They offer a 30-day trial. If you try it, like it enough and are willing to wait, they often have promotions for the first year (for Black Friday last year, it was a tiered discount depending on how early you signed up).

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#25
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm, though I question, who decided that is a the world backup day, its still is clear that it doesn't matter much, just like many other XYZ days that I don't follow. But I don't see the need of legal actions around such a thing.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day! I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

ah then its okay, don't worry if someone says BS about you. As long as you are right in your place, stay confident. It will only hurt, if you take it that way, just don't.

I can freaking declare this as the 'LOVE RIKA DAY' :P who cares about it anyway? if someone does, then good!

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#26
post #22

I wonder if this would be a good time to mention that I think I've got my new open-source snapshot backup tool (up on Github) ready for a larger testing audience? I'm a bit nervous about promoting it too widely until I'm sure that it is stable enough, but if anyone wants to test it in a non-critical setup, I'd appreciate any feedback.

Link: https://github.com/derekp7/snebu

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#27
post #2

Is it worth buying a few extra terabytes to backup? I simply don't have enough free space to even begin backing anything up.

Imagine losing all your data and thinking "dammit, I would give X of money to get my data back". Find X and decide for yourself.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#28
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmm, though I question, who decided that is a the world backup day, its still is clear that it doesn't matter much, just like many other XYZ days that I don't follow. But I don't see the need of legal actions around such a thing.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day! I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is. Didn't you issue a trademark on a community created idea and then hire a lawyer to enforce it? even if that lawyer made moves not authorized directly by you, this whole incident has a bad taste to it.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#29
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day! I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

ah then its okay, don't worry if someone says BS about you. As long as you are right in your place, stay confident. It will only hurt, if you take it that way, just don't. I can freaking declare this as the 'LOVE RIKA DAY' :P who cares about it anyway? if someone does, then good!

Thanks! I really appreciate that. It's just difficult to see the reaction here compared to happy reaction on Twitter and facebook. :) Your comment was nice to hear.

Re: Today is World Backup Day

#30
post #28
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was an idea from a reddit thread. I getting hammered in this thread, and I don't if anyone can see this. but the Backupify thing was a misunderstanding. It's okay to use World Backup Day! I had some trouble with scammy companies and I wanted to protect people from thinking we were endorsing them. That's all

I'm not sure what the misunderstanding is. Didn't you issue a trademark on a community created idea and then hire a lawyer to enforce it? even if that lawyer made moves not authorized directly by you, this whole incident has a bad taste to it.

It was just supposed to be monitoring for some scammy companies and she got overzealous and sent a letter to Backupify (they are awesome and definitely not scammy). The lawyer said the best way to stop scammy companies would be to trademark it, I'm just a college student so I (unwisely) let them take care of it. Plus it was just an unnecessarily scary letter-not an legal action.

I just didn't want people to mess up their computer because they downloaded something that seemed to be endorsed us (fyi, we don't endorse anyone). That's all.

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