The last mozy

Discovered a pretty nifty online backup service courtasy of macbreak weekly.

The service is called Mozy, and I do think they should check they’re safe using the Orange logo so blatantly.

Well despite that it’s a fantastic service.  I already make backups onto a usb hard drive but it’s kept in the house which means that if there’s a fire, or the house implodes or possibly more likely for Sheffield, the house is flooded then I’ll lose everything.

The great pain is doing the initial backup because if you’re internet service is anything like mine then your upload speed sucks big time.

But after a week or so of having to leave yer comp on all the time to upload you’ll have yer stuff all snug and safe and further backups are minimal because of a smart little app they have which not only skips files that haven’t changed but compares the difference block by block on files larger than 1MB.

The app also gets on with it in the background and keeps a low profile, it’s never nagged me about losing connections or sticking the mac to sleep without telling it.  It just logs the problem and gets on with it.

Haven’t tried the windows app but I wager it will be fine too.

You get 2GB for free, but paid membership for 2 years is 100 dollars and it’s unlimited (I don’t know exactly what unlimited is but it’s more than your HD will be.)  That’s only the price of a typical backup drive plus you get an app and the safety of it being off-site.