Mozy Home Online Backup is Dirt Cheap, Life Saver

A co-worker turned me on to Mozy, an online backup service that, for about $5 a month, performs backups of your home computer to their servers.  The amount of data is unlimited (!), and for such a cheap backup solution, I went ahead and gave it a try.

It’s impressive.  You sign up and download an application.  After installation, Mozy’s app sits in the System Tray and, after configuring your options, you can begin a backup.  The first time Mozy runs, it will perform a full backup.  Depending on your amount of data, the backup time will vary.  Mozy optimizes itself to your bandwidth, so it will not clog up your connection when you’re surfing the Internet.  In fact, I never noticed any slowdown or Internet issues while Mozy was performing the initial backup.  I had about 57GB of data, and it took about 2 weeks to perform the initial backup.  If you reboot your machine, Mozy picks up where it left off (though I found I sometimes had to start the backup manually for it to begin promptly).  After completing its initial backup, Mozy runs incremental backups during the night.  Mozy also installs an option in your right-click menu to restore previous versions of a file, similar to Windows Vista’s Shadow Copy feature, except this is more secure (since your Mozy backups exit online, while Shadow Copies exist hidden on the same hard drive).  I prefer Mozy to the external USB drive that I had purchased, since if there was a fire, my data would still be gone.  With Mozy, there are no worries.

I can’t say enough good things about Mozy; it simply works.  For $5 a month, you can’t not afford the peace of mind that your pictures and family videos, as well as personal documents, are safe from a disaster.  It’s a bill I happily pay a month.

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