Backing up your data is important as we increasingly rely on computers for everything. Now all our music, photos and documents can fit in a single hard-drive, making its potential failure even more disastrous. There are plenty of back-up solutions (such as using an external harddrive, an USB drive, burning DVDs…) but off-site back-up is important as well just in case something happens to your residence.
Mozy offers a free solution (for up to 2GB) or for just $5 a month, you can obtain unlimited storage space for all you files. Using this service is incredibly simple as a small footprint program runs in the background and automatically backs up the data. Or you can schedule it to do it a regularly as you require. Transfers are encrypted with 128-bit SSL, and the data on Mozy’s server is protected with 448-bit Blowfish encryption.
The interface is incredibly simple to use and I haven’t encountered a reliability issue so far. First time you back up the data will take awhile (as expected) but subsequent incremental changes happen very fast. With Pro and Enterprise solutions, you can even back up SQL and Exchange, located on local or network drives, over HTTPS connection in addition to even more storage space.
For personal users, critical documents shouldn’t take more than 2GB which means this is a perfect secondary back-up solution.
March 17th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
yea its definitely worth it, especially if you have a lot of keep-sake items on your computers, such as digital photographs or important documents. the sucky part is the initial transfer, which can take forever.
~Mike