Mozy Backup

Just stumbled across the latest online backup option for Mac users, and it’s cheap too! At 5.00 a month for unlimited backups, Mozy is a silent background process that runs independantly of its menu bar icon. A free account will get you 2 gigs of storage, and for just under 60.00 a year you can get unlimited backups of all your data. What’s more, Mozy does realtime blowfish file encryption before establishing a 128 bit SSL tunnel to thier servers in the sky. Initial backup times can be pretty lengthy but afterwards they utilize a differential backup scheme — and since it is running in the background anyways, just set it and forget it.

I currently backup everything weekly to my terabyte array anyways, but its nice to have an affordable off-site solution. In the event of catestrophic loss, they’ll even send you a series of DVD’s with all your files on it — for a small fee.


Update: While Mozy seems like it’s a great deal up-front, I’m a little leary now after almost 10 days of uploading. I wanted to upload all the contents of my home drive (190GB) but with all the connection resets and restarts I’m getting NOWHERE fast…