Easy Mozy Off-Site Back-Ups
Posted on June 24th, 2008 | by Chris Nixon |
I’ve spent the last six months worrying about getting a proper off-site backup solution for my photographs. It’s all very well backing up to an external hard-drive, but what I the house goes on fire or an electrical surge blew the lot? Until now I have relied upon Flickr and SmugMug until now, but they weren’t able to act as back-up for my precious RAW files.
Yesterday SmugMug announced SmugVault, a new service that would allow users to back-up those RAW files too. I was extremely happy, and hurriedly signed up for the service. Unfortunately, I was quickly disappointed. I had thought it would “stack-up” the RAW files with the displayed jpeg files. This wasn’t the case. It was just a manual service where you could upload the RAW files alongside the jpegs, or keep them in a different folder.
It became apparent that the service was not for me.
Within minutes, however, it was suggested by Phill Price that I took a look at Mozy. An unlimited set-it-and-forget-it service that would back up all my important files, and for two computers would only cost me a fiver a month. I never have to worry about remembering to back-up. It takes care of all the thinking.
I’m still in the process of my initial back-up, but so far it has been extremely smooth and easy. The software is simple to use on both the Mac and the PC. It begins by suggesting the files that need uploaded to which I added a few (a lot!) more, and I hit go.
It really has been as simple as that.
Check back for a follow-up post next week as I update you on the completion of the back-up and the incremental updates.
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They merged online backup, online storage and file sharing services into one product.
If you try this service you will notice that (contrary to most competitors):
- You can access your files in (true) real time with a web browser
- They really offer 250 GB (some competitors offer a fake unlimited web
space, they say "fair use")
- You can share a file or many files with the 1-click-share functionality
- Some of your files will be uploaded very very fast (turboupload)
- The service and website are in 10 different languages
I've also found two useful guide to online backup on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_backup
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