Mozy online backup - warning!

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

They are doing away with their unlimited service in a few days.

My backup with them with their new pricing would have been $110/mo so obviously I canceled.

I signed up with Crashplan. $5/mo unlimited and so far the upload throughput is like 50x faster than it was with Mozy.

Anyhow, heads up to anyone using the service!!!

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

I've been meaning to look into this for a while. So is crashplan a pretty good option? Does their free service back-up everything online as well, or only to your local devices? I need to get a plan in place so I'm not wasting 1/3 of all my drives backing everything up from the other drives..

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Wakebrad, Crashplan can backup for free to other computers (locally or over the web), or for $5/mo it can back up to the cloud w/unlimited space.

It's fully automatic, compresses and encrypts your files, and so far I'm really impressed with the interface and level of control over it. I can really drill down on what to back up, when to back it up, how much CPU and bandwidth to let it use, etc. It's also incremental, so once you up the big load it's really non-intrusive.

FWIW, my plan is to double back up everything I'd be royally pissed if I lost (local+cloud). That is all of our documents, music, and pictures. Video and anything else just gets backed up locally.

Wakebrad · Ladies Man Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 12257 City: Dallas

That sounds pretty cool. For $60 a year, I wonder if throwing a few extra drives would be cheaper though.. I guess you still run the risk of a surge taking down them all in 1 computer, or a fire. Yeah, it may be worth $60 a year.

tball · Wakeboarder.com Freak Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 3953

backing up files is ghey. I really enjoy rebuilding my Christmas card list after my annual laptop failure.

vette74 · Posted: Feb 01, 2011 1:24 pm Post subject:

I use carbonite and am pretty happy with it. It costs $60 per year. The good thing is that you don't have to remember to back stuff up it does it on a semi daily basis. It also has a little green dot next to everything that is backed up and red when it is not.

chavez · RIP MHL 04/25/1958 - 01/11/2006

Wakebrad, if I were to use the "more external drives" method I'd want to always offsite a drive (keep at my office) so if the siht really hit the fan I'd have a backup elsewhere.

But that solution is dependent on my remembering to do it, which stinks. We do this at our office now, always rotating drives to an offsite location, but it's a pain right in the ass and the automation to the cloud method is super-easy. $5 a month is a small price to pay to have that extra piece of mind.

We'll move the office backup to the cloud soon as well. We obviously will have to get pre-clearance to keep this data in the cloud, so that is the only obstacle to us doing it. Soon....

vette74, Carbonite is great too. I hope none of these firms does what Mozy is doing right now. Carbonite is the next "biggest" player out there from what I could tell, so I went with CrashPlan in hopes that they will keep things unlimited to maintain a competitive edge.