Mozy Online Backups – Backup Your Home Computer
If you are looking for a way to backup your home computer check out Mozy.com. They offer a 2 Gig backup for free but for just $4.95 you get unlimited backup for a single computer. They have clients for Windows and Mac.
“Mozy is a simple and safe way to back up all the important stuff on your computer. A copy of your data is stored in a secure, remote location for safekeeping, so that in the event of disaster your data is still retrievable.”
Sign up for an account, install the client, select the files you want to backup, and that’s it. There are some tweaks to allow more bandwidth to be used for backups, or backup only when idle but I just selected all the defaults. The initial backup took about 10 days for 45GBs of data, but now my data is quickly backed up daily. I am sure they are using some sort of source de-duplication similar to AVAMAR.
Here is a capture from my Mozy account of my backup data
I have not tried to do a restore yet, but I have browsed through my backed up files on the Virtual Drive created when you install the Mozy Client and using the Web restore online.
Mozy’s web restore interface
If anyone from Mozy reads this… I wish you had a Linux Client!!!
Related posts:
- How to backup an Active Directory Domain Controller with AVAMAR
- AVAMAR Pre-backup Script to Mount Remote Shares on Celerra NAS
- WinSCP – Free sftp and ftp client
Comments
Leave a Reply
Welcome
Thanks for dropping by! Feel free to join the discussion by leaving comments, and stay updated by subscribing to the RSS feed. Enjoy!
Not into geek stuff? Check out The VABiker.Net or SuffolkSky.com.
Why not Follow Me on Twitter?
-
Geek Reads
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive
This technical guide covers the basic steps needed to create a VMware HA and DRS cluster, but even more important explains the concepts and mechanisms behind HA and DRS which will enable you to make well educated decisions. This book will take you in to the trenches of HA and DRS and will give you the tools to understand and implement e.g. HA admission control policies, DRS resource pools and resource allocation settings.
Mastering vSphere 4 by Scott Lowe
Install and manage one or one thousand virtual servers in your enterprise with the latest generation of VMware virtualization software, vSphere 4, and this comprehensive guide.
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide
vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide continues from an idea started several years ago by a few engineers. The idea was simple, provide an easy to use reference guide for all level administrators, consultants and architects.
