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Review of Mozy Online Backup Service
While Carbonite was my personal choice for online backup due to ease of use, there is another service that is very similar, and that is the remote backup from Mozy, which seems to offer even more features.
Mozy comes in three flavors (free, home, and pro) that are sure to handle everyone's needs. The free version is designed for very basic backups, although it offers a nice 2 GB limit, which will backup plenty of documents. Mozy Home offers unlimited backups and basically everything a home user needs at $4.95 per month. (Pre-paying for a year gets you 1 month free, while pre-paying for two years gets you 3 months free.)
Mozy's Pro version offers additional enterprise-level features to handle the corporate environment, which we won't really get into here. But it is something to look at if you're a CIO or even if you're running a small business with valuable client data.
Let's get started with Mozy Home. (Note that you have to click to the Mozy Home page before you see a link to the Mozy Free edition.) Mozy Home is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, and Vista, and Mac OS X 10.4, so that covers most computers.
Just click the "Get Started" button to signup.
Then download and install the software.
Once it's installed, you can select the files that you want to backup and configure some basic options (or advanced options, if you desire.)
Then just sit back and relax while Mozy does the hard work for you!
You can check everything out in your online account, and even access a PDF instruction manual to keep you on the right track. Don't worry though, the interface is nice and simple. You don't need to be a computer geek to get Mozy working properly!
Well, now your important documents are being backed up! But what if something happens down the road and your files get lost? Then just restore the files through Mozy's easy interface! All you have to do is select the files to restore and click "Restore." Simple as that.
Everything should work flawlessly unless you're on a dial-up connection. (Note that it can still take a while to connect to your control panel to change any settings, though, even on high-speed lines.)
I could go on to tell you all the cool stuff Mozy does, like...
- Your files are encrypted on your computer using 448-bit Blowfish encryption and then transferred to the Mozy servers using 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption.
- Checks your computer every 2 hours to see if anything has changed and needs backed up.
- Stores multiple versions of your changed files for 30 days, so you can always find what you want.
- Will ship you a DVD containing your files if that is how you want to restore backups!
Just to name a few ;)
But I think you get the point that Mozy is a sweet addition to any computer!
In that case, you should be all set, so it is the time to sign-up! For my final recommendation:
Definitely download Mozy today. You can start out with the free version - it's awesome, and there is no credit card required for the free signup, so there's no obligation.
If you like it and need more space, just upgrade to Mozy Home or signup with Carbonite, both are just $5 a month. I think Carbonite is simpler and less cumbersome, but Mozy works well, too.
P.S. The neat thing with the Mozy free version is that it has a built-in referral program. If you refer a friend who starts to use Mozy, you get an extra 256 MB of storage space added to your account! It's a nice deal - just refer 4 friends and you'll end up with 3 GB of storage space instead of 2.
Click here now to get started!
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