I started talking about how great Mozy is after I started using it over a year ago to backup my own personal and work data. MozyPro helped my business survive a hard drive crash and I use MozyHome Unlimited to backup all of our families photos and videos. Mozy could easily hire me to be their evangelist, since I am pretty much doing it anyways. There are others out there that are just as happy with Mozy as I have been and I thought I would point out a few in case you have not come across their blog posts.
Ian Nelson has a great post about how Mozy. According to the post he currently backs up roughly 60GB of data. It sounds like he mostly uses Mozy to backup family photos.
J.Dare has a post talking about how unlimited really does mean unlimited with Mozy. According to the blog post it sounds like he is backing up somewhere close to 2 TB using MozyHome Unlimited for Mac. He talks a little about how long it took with his ISP. It all depends on how fast your upload connection is.
Colin Meeks talks about his search for an online backup service and why he finally settled on Mozy. He also talks a little about the restore options you have. If you have a lot of data you probably will have to order a restore DVD’s, but as he says:
This is not going to be cheap however. Mozy charge $0.50 per gigabyte, $30 for processing and will charge your credit card for FedEx shipping, so in my case I will be looking at something in excess of $120 + shipping. The way I look at it though, if I need to make use of this service, something awful has happened, and spending $120+ is going to be the least of my worries.
If you want a more official source of news and reviews, Ars Technica did a review of several online backup services back in July 2007, and Mozy was their “top general pick”.
If you are not using Mozy online backup yet why not?