Mozy.com Online Backup
The WebI never thought it would happen to me. I’m a computer savvy guy, I think. Hard drives don’t fail on the computer savvy, do they? Yes Ryan, yes they do. It happened to me this weekend we lost the Maxtor 40gb hard drive in our Dell Dimension 8300. With that, gone are some pictures that my wife had worked on (luckily not the originals), about six years worth of bank records and one year worth of school work for my Masters.
The good news is that the Dell Dimension 8300 is back up and running after a quick run to Wal-Mart for a 80gb Western Digital hard drive. Oh yes, Wal-Mart now sells hard drives. Where else can you get diapers, milk and a hard drive in one trip?
Needless to say this incident sent me looking for an backup solution, and not just a solution to back up to my bigger 250gb Western Digital hard drive, no. After all that’s a hard drive too. No, I wanted something more. I wanted a web back up solution something that I could set up and have it do all the work. After some searching I think I found one in mozy.com. At mozy.com you get 2gb worth of backup space for free and unlimited space for $4.95 a month. Additionally you can back up as many PCs on one account as you want. PLUS it compresses the data before it uploads it to the mozy.com servers. I had well over 2gb worth of data to be backed up yet I only used 550mb of back up storage.
So we’ll see how it goes, you can’t beat free and I appreciate the security of mozy being at work all the time. I just logged into my account and I see that the last backup was ran a couple hours ago and I wasn’t even there!
If you are interested in mozy.com click on the link below. It’s a referral link for my account. For every four referrals I get an extra GIG of space for free!!! So go ahead, sign up it will help you and me!
Referral Code: https://mozy.com/?ref=PBH3GA
Good Day!
Ryan
We personally use at home the free version of BOS (www.bos.co.il) for home users. But if you need more backup volume you can buy a home license up to the volume of your critical data.
Good luck!
M.M.
I tried Mozy over the weekend, it seems useful. I like how it encrypts all the info [400-something bit key] before uploading all the files, and how it schedules updates on its own.
My normal backup solution is I use multiple hard drives in my PC with multiple partitions. Then, about once a year I backup the most important files to about three DVDs. I know this is not the best way, especially if I have a hard, hard drive crash. I've only had soft ones that only have affected individual partitions, and could be fixed without replacing hardware. I also keep my DVDs close to the computer, which I know is also not the best way to go about it in case of fire, etc.
My last way of making backup files, for small files, is just to email myself an attachment on GMail.
Thanks for the comments. I'll try to look at that resizing issues.
Any backup solution is a good one in my opinion. I was going to go the DVD route until I found mozy.com. I still probably will use DVDs for my photographs and MP3. Good idea about gmail too, it's actually saved me a couple times when I thought I deleted some key information.
I believe there is a version of mozy (http://www.mozypro.com/) which works to back up network drives.
Ryan
Thank you for contacting IDrive-E Support.
Please note that IDrive-E application does support the backups from mapped drive. You can setup the mapped drive for the scheduled job without any issues. Hence, you can go ahead and signup for IDrive-E Pro using the following link:
https://www.idrive.com/idrivee/jsp/ide_prosignup.j...
You may also contact us through the live chat support using the following link, for any further queries or clarifications:
http://idrive.com/support.htm
Please feel free to contact us for any further assistance or clarifications.
Regards,
IDrive-E Support.
Will try it out and let you know if it works.
Regards
"Please note that our development team is working on the mapped drive support through IDrive-E application. We would update you, once we come out with the new version of IDrive-E application supporting mapped drives."
Seems like their left hand does not know what the right one is up to. I hope they can get their act together, seems so promising.
Registered for the free service to try it out - you allegedly have 2gb of free capacity, so I tried backing up some old photographs (about 400MB) and the backup failed at around 220mb advising me that I had exceeded my capacity and that I should upgrade to a paid-for subscription!
Waiting for a response back from their Tech Support team.....looks like they got their sums wrong and really meant 200mb rather than 2000mb.....
Will let you know if resolved.
Software is easy to set up and pretty simple to use. The (classic) interface also shows your backup files as a remote folder - very impressive and so hopefully much easier if you need to restore.
Performance was slow - I have a 2mb Broadband connection and initially was gettting around 1,000kb, then this dropped to around 250 or so. 220mb took about 90 mins to backup before it failed.
Regards
Thank you so much for the post. It's amazing how many referrals I've gotten just because of the blog. I was about to blog about it again. Do you remember what you googled for when you got my site?
Ryan
Thanks for your referral! I appreciate it. I should be up to 8.2gb with your referral. Love the Mozy.
Thanks for the feedback. I heard the other day that Mozy.com got bought by some other company. Hopefully they don't change anything.
The overnight DVD from Perfectbackup is a great feature!! Do they have an unlimited account?
Thanks for the referral code! If someone wants to make him/herself and me happy, please use the following referral code:
https://mozy.com/?ref=5EEERM
Or code 5EEERM
Thanks!
Deniese
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