I have been using Mozy for a few days now and there’s not a lot to report except it does take a very long time to upload 37gb to the Mozy servers. I’ve been running the backup client on my Mac for 3 days and it says I have 4 more days to go. I suppose this is not a huge problem, after all it’s lots of data. And it’s nice to know that if my house blows up, catches fire or my hard drives crash I can still get to my files.
I also found a 10% off coupon code “NOVEMBER” so 2 years cost $94 or about the price of a 500gb external hard drive
I hope Mozy works out better than Omnidrive, I paid for that service last year and now they are out of business, no contacting their customers about closing down and who knows what happened to my data.
If you’re like me and backing up data due to a hard drive crash. You did not back up for over a year and want more than one solution to backing up data or priceless pictures and video, have a look at Crashplan. Mozy seems ok so far but I imagine that retrieving the data would be a slow process as well. With the software from Crashplan you can automatically back up your data to an external hard drive connected to another computer on your network or even a friend’s house. I started using Crashplan before Time Machine was released for the MAC. I actually back up the data to 2 separate drives connected to 2 other PC’s on my network. Crashplan works on all operating systems so my Mac backs up files onto my Windows PC.
Since I’m so paranoid about data loss I do use Time Machine as well to do backups to an external drive bay I’ve had for years. About once a week I boot up the drive bay (It’s kind of loud) and use Time Machine to make a back up.
What have we learned here (probably not much, hahaha) is that extremely paranoid about crashing hard drives. If you want your data safe, use more than one backup solution. Sure you have to shell out a little cash but if you ever had a drive crash and use an “engineer” to try an extract the lost data, you could end up paying $1000 or more. I think the cheapest quote I received for extracting data from a bad drive was $650 and there is no guarantee they can extract the data from a crashed drive. A service like Mozy, Crashplan and an external drive will cost you about $200 to start with a recurring fee for Mozy.
I almost forgot, it never hurts to back up photos and video to DVD’s for safe keeping too!
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