Mozy Review

Juice writes a little post every so often called Technology Monday. This time, he chose to showcase Mozy:

Mozy is a online backup company that gives you your first 2 GB free. You simply choose which files you want to back up and when your computer is on but not being used it will backup those files to the server. I’ve been using them for a while and so far it’s pretty cool.

And we’re trying to make it even cooler, trust us. Thanks for the review, Juice!

Joel’s totally awesome blog Thoughts From An Empty Head had a great post that really showcases why we do the things we do here at Mozy:

Yep, for the fourth time in two years, and the third time in nine months, the computer has crashed.
Random videos … gone. Including my torrents of the latest series of Doctor Who. (That really made me cry, by the way.)
Vast music library … mostly gone. All of my iTunes stuff has been backed up, but all of the other cds that I’ve traded on La La (80+ cds) and the albums I’ve downloaded on Jamendo and my free album of Tori Amos’s Scarlet’s Walk (which I got for free in the Sony BMG settlement) are lost to the ether.
Thankfully, I’ve got an account over at Mozy Backup, so all of the truly important files and stuff (and my photos, which are also backed up on Flickr, thank God) have been backed up online.

So remember, kids, when disaster strikes, it’s too late to think about backup.

Solo Technology invites users to “Mozy on over for some backups:”

This appears to be the closest yet to what I’ve been searching for quite some time: Dead simple, lightweight little app that just backs up data to an offsite server.

Don’t mind if we do…

So we had a little DNS issue that happened as a result of Mozy moving its data center. Anyway, we got all the bugs taken care of, and we’re back up, thanks for hanging with us during the transition. Now, back to more Mozy Reviews!

Ignorant Critics posted a fairly lengthy review of Mozy’s service, and here are the findings:

I like the security that comes from having my important files in a secure place. Yes, you can go and burn CDs or DVDs of all of your files; but that takes a long time and you have to keep updating as soon as there are new files. And having your files online means that you’ll be able to retrieve your data, even if your house burns down. It’s cheaper than buying an external hard drive, and Mozy does all of the work for me. Seriously, this is a great website… I can’t recommend this service enough.

Good points, and a great review. Thanks, Ignorant Critics!

Google Operating System had some constructive criticism for Mozy:

My only complaint is about restoring files: you can select the files you want to restore online, but the interface is pretty stiff. You’re limited to 5 restores a month and you get the restored files by email. It would be nice if you could manage restoring files using the same local client.

Well, the people have spoken and the Mozy has answered. Mozy’s latest build includes a slick restore function with the client, and I’ll bet if you begged, you could get more than 5 restores, if you really, really needed them.

With a name like The Money Fella, You know this guy means business. He makes a couple of points about some unique Mozy features:

There are a number of online backup services springing up, but Mozy Backup is the only one I’ve seen that (1) gives you a really substantial free allocation, and (2) lets you encrypt your backup data.

Who wants to be like everyone else anyways?

You’re a busy person, with tons of things on your plate, right? And as a busy person, you have lots of important data on your hard drive that you’d like to hold on to. Unfortunately the whole busy thing keeps you from being able to back up your important data. Fortunately, Mindshadow.net has discovered something that we hope the rest of the internet discovers:

The BEST thing I have found about Mozy over other competing places is the backup client that automatically will run at set intervals so you don’t have to remember. It is free… what do you have to lose? Try it.

Go ahead. You have more important things to do.

QuickOnlineTips.com used the phrase “automagically,” so we couldn’t resist. Mozy’s automagic powers are indeed formidable.

Just set Mozy up and it will backup automagically. Your backup files will be encrypted and stored in a secure, remote location that’s only accessible to you from anywhere and smart backups ensure that its backup parts of a file that have changed, and also backup open and locked files.

Invincibility, immortality (of a sort) and automagic. Why wouldn’t you want powers like that for your data?

Rod Trent over at myITforum.com had some insights into Mozy. He gives some props to our founder and CEO, Josh, who we think is a rather decent fellow.

Other companies like xDrive and Connected.com have offered online backup, but they have charged super high prices for their service. Mozy offers 2 GB of free backup, and sells 30 GB for just $4.95 a month. Mozy is able to offer enterprise quality features for a price that is 5x – 10x less expensive because the founder Josh Coates developed new proprietary cluster technology that can scale to millions of users and billions of files.

Don’t let this kind of bang for your buck just pass you by! We appreciate the review, Rod!