Mozy.com says they will backup any amount of data to their servers (from one computer) for $4.95/month. I have a lot of data which could use some off-site storage. For $60/year (which is a lot less than the amount I spend in hard drives per year) I can have infinite data backup? I told 'em I had terrabytes of data to back up and they said that was fine. So we'll try it.
They have Mac as well as PC backup. I told them I have one computer which dual-boots. Unfortunately, I'd need one license for the PC and one for the Mac. Fortunately, as long as the OS can read from the drive, Mozy will back it up. So I bought the license for the Mac knowing that it can read NTFS, HFS, and FAT-32.
Of course, using the Internet, the backup is slow as molasses. So it'll take a couple (few? several?) weeks to run my first backup job. But the backup can run in the background.
I use mozy to back up my docs . . . it's free under certain gig, which is just enough to back up my docs (though not enough for my itunes library) and it's automatic . . . so far, it's a lot easier than the mac back up . . .
ReplyDeleteLet me know how this works. If it cheaper than buying a gazillion hard-drives a year, i'm there.
ReplyDeleteOh that's right. You can set up a free 2GB account. For documents that's perfect. And automatic.
ReplyDeleteI think it might save one from having to buy a second set of drives as backup. But hey, if you want to put old client's stuff up on Mozy, and not actually have a physical copy yourself, that might be fine too. You gotta just hope Mozy never goes out of business. ;-)