Backing Up
You’ve all heard the horror stories. You go to boot up you computer, nothing happens… perhaps you hear a click… click… click…
This actually happened to me a couple years ago. Luckily my hard drive started working again just long enough for me to get a back-up before replacing it.
I recently heard of an acquaintance that had this happen to them. It reminded me of how vulnerable I am. I have no back-up plan!
I do however have a plan now. I’m signing up for mozy. Yeah, I’ve heard about about the great claims with Carbonite from all the radio shows (Rush, Dr. Laura, etc. etc.). We’ve even used Carbonite at work. I think its great, but when I did a search to see what other players are out there, I found mozy.
Why mozy?
I recognized their name. There are here it Utah. A couple years ago they sponsored a coding competition with a cash prize of $10,000. It was basically a recruiting effort to expose some of the best local talent.
But it is not just name recognition alone. I’ve done my homework and they are the real deal. Check out these videos:
So what are you waiting for? Get backing up! You’ll thank yourself someday. It’s only $4.95 for unlimited storage. If you can’t afford it, start with the free plan and back up your most important 2 GB (like your My Documents folder)
Mozy Online Backup. 2GB Free or $4.95/mo for Unlimited Backup. It’s simple, automatic and secure!
Oh, and one tip… If you are going to sign up for unlimited and decide to pay for a 1 year or 2 year plan, save 10% by entering “AUGUST” in the promo code (good until the end of August obviously!).
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August 20, 2008
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Especially important if you own a website
A good backup tool for Apple users is the program integrated into OSX 10.5 called Time Machine. This one saved me yesterday. I have a virtual machine running Windows and one of the files was corrupted. I couldn’t do anything to recover so I restored my last backup using Time Machine. It saved the day! This is also good if you have a lot of data that is constantly changing since it can take a while to upload 20GB or 30GB of data.
I am wondering if you would be interested in reviewing a new CloudBerry Online Backup powered by Amazon S3 with friendly user interface, strong data encryption and scheduling capabilities.
I bought mozy when it first came out and loved it, I bought 2yrs for 2 pc’s and it worked great – HOWEVER, if you read the license agreement closely, it only keeps backups for 30 days, so if you delete a file and want it back on day 31, you’re out of luck
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I’ve since switched to Jungledisk for my mac, it uses S3 and rocks. S3 is way more $ than Mozy, but so is everything that uses S3, since it keeps everything like a shared drive.
J
If you saw my recent post you may have noticed my note about switching to Jungle Disk. We use Jungle Disk for storage on our online document management software at Scanvo.net. I really like how it works. I notice they were recently bought out by Rackspace so now they offer Rackspace cloud storage as well as S3. The main difference is that with Rackspace you only pay for storage (same price) but not for bandwidth. Sounds like a great deal. It seems like when I bought it about 3 months ago it was just $30, now it’s $2 per month.
Yeah, I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of Mozy. I figured it would work well and fast since they are headquartered in the same county as me. When I reformatted my hard drive after problems with Vista, I didn’t bother backing up because I had it all on mozy. It seemed to take about a week to get it all restored and even then there was some issues. I don’t think it got fully restored then like you said, it was gone after 30 days. Since then I have not been able to back up anything. I keep getting errors with their software.
So yeah, I like how Jungle Disk acts as a Network drive. Since I am using Windows 7 beta, I know I’m going to have to reformat again soon when it is officially released. I might as well just use the cloud storage for all my documents, then I don’t have to worry about backing up and restoring.
i have been tossing up between mozy and carbonite. can anyone recomend the right one.
Go with Jungle Disk! Much better IMHO.
Mozy saved my bacon when my system crashed a few years ago. That said, restoring it was really slow. It’s probably not practical to archive everything using Mozy. Just the files that you couldn’t possibly afford to loose if your house catches fire. For everything else, just purchase an external hard drive and be done with it.
I own a website and I think owning a good backup tool is a must to save us from headache.
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