![]() ![]() For instance I tested the service by having them package my 20 GB worth of data, and it only took 20 mins from me clicking the button on the website till I received notification that I could download the files. You will receive an e-mail when the process is done packaging your files for download, the packaging process will vary depending on how many files you want restored. What you do to restore your files, is login to the website, select the files you want restored, and they then start the packaging process. Mozy does a great job at quickly packaging up your files so they can be downloaded. It is not the intended use of the service, but it is nice to know my information is at my finger tips as long as I have internet access. I have used the website a couple of times to grab presentations that I left at home on my computer by mistake. The Mozy website is clean and very easy to use, it is your main portal for modifying your account information, such as billing and address information, adding or removing computers from your account, and doing a web restore. The Mozy backup process runs as a Windows Service, so it is unobtrusive and you can just start up your computer and forget it is even running. It took me only 3 days to backup my almost 20 GB of data, I let the service run day and night to make sure everything was backed up in the least amount of time as possible. What I personally liked about the service was how easy it was to get going, with literally 3 clicks of the mouse I was backing up my hard drive to the Mozy servers. 448-bit Blowfish encryption (to secure your data on their server).128-bit SSL support (to secure your data during transport).Mozy offers two services one that is a free service and you can only backup up to 2GB of data, or the second is an unlimited service for $4.95 a month for unlimited amounts of data backup. A nice to have would be Versioning of my files, where versions over time of the same file are kept in tact.Īfter looking at Amazon, xDrive, and Carbonite I eventually stumbled across a service called Mozy, it seemed to have everything I wanted for a price that worked for me and my wife.Unlimited in that I didn't want my bill to rise over time.Configurable in that I want control over what is backed up.Secure in that I do not want my data to be openly readable.Data is easily assessable from the web and PC.Fast in that I do not want it to take weeks to upload 15 GB.Reliable in that I do not want the service here today, gone tomorrow.So I knew I needed to pay somebody to keep my data in a place other than my house, so I set out to find the best online backup solution for the smallest budget. I first went the route of backing up my laptop to an internal network storage drive, but I with in a few days realized that my data wasn't really protected it was just duplicated and could easily be lost in, god forbid, a house fire. From that day on I vowed to never have this happen again, so I started on a hunt to find the best solution for backing up my wifes desktop and my laptop. I was lucky I could get most of this back through some old backups, but I pretty much lost a good months worth of data. Just over 5 months ago I lost a ton of data in the process of a couple stupid moments, this included code I had not backed up, some documents, iTunes music, pictures, and database data that I had been collecting for many years. Mozy now charges based on storage usage, yet they continue to delete their copy of files you have deleted.Mozy Backup Review Home Subscribe Mozy Backup Review 04 April 2007 How is this still a thing? Carbonite charges a flat rate, so it is in their best interest to save storage space on their end.Ī service that charges more for using more storage, should be prejudiced towards keeping copies of deleted files - they make more money that way. But, most importantly, Carbonite customers, just like Mozy users from years back, are only protected from accidental deletions for a month. That they can't spell "accidentally" is red flag number one. During this time, you can recover the lost file right from your PC through your account dashboard. Your files remain on our servers for 30 days. Lost or (whoops!) accidently deleted a file? No problem. ![]() Sure enough, a look at Carbonite's website turned up this: ![]() Fast forward to this week when Steve Gibson mentioned on his Security Now podcast, that someone he knows uses Carbonite to back up their files. ![]()
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