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.
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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?
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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!
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KrazyKritter’s Techo Blurbs invites people to Mozy on up for some online backup:
OK That’s a bit cheesy but this software is truly a great find. Mozy gives you the ability to backup your data (offsite) something we all should be doing but usually neglect. It gets even better this software is free!
So giddyap!
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SayShea Web Studios had some good things to say about the wisdom of using online backup:
Mozy Remote Backup… is a secure and safe way to save your behind in the case of emergency! Even if you opt for the additional paid storage, $5 a month is nothing compared to the monetary losses you could face in the event of losing your important files and information.
That’s a small price to pay for peace of mind. Thanks for the review, SayShea Studios!
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Imagine if your house were hit by lightning or there was a massive power failure. What would happen to your data? This is the essence of the post on eprofitnews.org about Mozy online backup.
Would that kill your business? In terms of risk management, what’s your recovery strategy in the event of total data loss?
One easy solution is Mozy, the company that provides a remote backup service at NO COST. My programmer son put me onto this one, and I love it.
To ensure your data is safely backed up at a secure remote location, just download and install Mozy…Yep, as you can tell…. this is another of my favorite utilities. Especially for the price.
Sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes you get a whole lot more. Thanks for the review!
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Nickell.org poses an interesting question:
We know we SHOULD backup or important data, but it somehow gets put to the bottom of the TODO list.. it’s not glamorous, but there are times when you’d really be glad you did back it up. So if it is easy, secure, and FREE*? Why not…
A valid question, to be sure.
Secure offsite backup is a really good idea, but it usually comes with a high price, either in time invested or money. Then I discovered Mozy. Mozy is a free online backup, which even allows you to use your own text, picture, or other file to create a key so even they don’t have access to your data… They allow you to backup 2GB for free, which would take care of a lot of small business needs, or at least your financial data. If you have a lot of precious digital photos, 2GB might not be enough… in which case Mozy offers 30GB for very reasonable $5/month.
Looks like you’re out of excuses! 
Thanks for the Mozy review.
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Dmitry of Dmitry’s Review did a fairly extensive review of online backup services. Among his requirements: good price, security, continuous backup, versioning support, and can back up any type of file. He reviewed Carbonite, Orbitfiles, DataDepositBox, some other smaller services, and, of course, Mozy.
His conclusion?
Based on my requirements I’ve decided to go with Mozy even considering current limitations with Restore and NTFS encrypted files. Based on my interactions with their tech support I do believe they will fix these problems.
Note: As of this writing, these problems have indeed been rectified. Check it out! Thanks for the great review, Dmitry.
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Toxicle.org, a blog with some lifehacks, a smattering of bizarre news stories, and general musings from the author, also included an awesome Mozy review:
Here’s what so great about this service
- 2GB of free, secure storage
- Open/locked file support
- Block-level differential backup
- 128-bit SSL support (to secure your data during transport)
- 448-bit Blowfish encryption (to secure your data on our server)
- Continuous or scheduled backup options
What are you waiting for? Get Mozy Remote Backup!
What more can we say?
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The Yellow Subterfuge, “one paranoid android,” as the writer puts it, was pleasantly surprised by Mozy.
I tried Mozy, and it does everything that I was looking for. It quietly backs up my data during a scheduled time and its free. I just had to download the application, which needless to say is free of spyware and adware. You can also upgrade if you need more space for just $5 a month. Its a no-brainer.
We couldn’t agree more.
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