A month or so ago I was dumping another 2GB of photos and videos of my son Kai off our cameras and decided that I needed to get a more robust backup strategy - we've been using digital cameras since 2001 - I'd hate to lose it all!
I should preface this by stating that I had a kludgy "local replica" strategy. Basically a power shell script which dumped deltas from my home workstation to my home server, as well as an external drive. While that's good enough to ward off critical failures in hardware, it really does not address theft, fire, or other serious natural disasters. For that you need off-site backups.
Enter Mozy.com. I have to give my co-worker Mike Juniper props for giving me the little shove I needed on this. The price was certainly right - $5 a month for unlimited storage, but I was concerned about how unlimited Mozy's unlimited really was. Mike had uploaded 12GB without issue, so I took the plunge and see if I could jam all 36GB up there. And while it took about a week to get it all up there, it's been working very smoothly.
For home users it's ridiculously easy to setup. Your backups appear as a drive in File Explorer. Getting a file back is just drag and drop.
In fact this is working so smoothly that we are likely going to use Mozy Professional for offsite backups in our new office. This is set it and forget it software and Sit sure beats setting up cryptic backup software and slogging tapes back and forth!
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