Online backup with Mozy Backup 3

Posted by Neil on October 15, 2007

I’ve always been a paranoid soul when it comes to backup. I’ve always sat there either burning DVD’s or labouriously configuring regular jobs to copy files to an external USB Hard disk which I then forget to leave on.

Therefore, I was quite chuffed when I got an IM from Kevin McCabe telling me about Mozy Backup. Mozy is a system whereby you bung them 5 dollars a month, and then you get unlimited upload to their backup servers via a little client app that you can install (and it works on Mac too). Once you’ve told it what you are wanting to backup, it does everything else for you. No schedules, no tapes, no DVDs - just a little client app.

Now, I’ve not tried restoring from it yet, and am still in the process of my initial upload of around 40Gb of data, but overall I like the stealth aspect of it all. I know that all my data is backed up both onsite and offsite for not a lot of money.

Just to note, I’ve just noticed that if you are backing up less than 2Gb, Mozy is also free…

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  1. Darth Sidious Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:24:02 EDT

    Oh ya, I’m with you. I have a Windows Scheduled task that runs a DOS batch file which robocopy’s my stuff to a USB drive. *BUT* if a Virus invaded your system that would wipe out hte files directly, or the next time it mirrors it’ll erase all the content that got erased from the source (or the files got corrupted, etc…).

    So I use Mozy as a failsafe as well. The only thing I don’t like is that it’s kinda slow.

  2. James Edmunds Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:36:40 EDT

    I have been using Mozy for maybe a year now, and really love the assurance it gives me. And yes, I did run into a situation where I had to restore from it, and was easily able to locate the needed files and get them back on my hard drive.

  3. Arthur Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:52:46 EDT

    I have been using a cool application called Zoogmo. It offers totally free and unlimited offsite backup. You can use it to backup to your own computers or external hard drive or you can agree with your friends to share backup space on each others’ computers.

    They only launched a few weeks ago so there are some features that are missing, but I just got an email from them this week about new features coming soon and about a Facebook application.

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