Mozy Remote Backup

As you know, everyone needs to backup their computer files. Mozy is the first and only full-featured, remote backup system in the world that’s offered for free. And as of this writing, Mozy also offers unlimited backup for just $4.95 a month (or $54.50 a year). If you have files your care about, or files that you can’t replace, there’s really no excuse to not have everything backed up. Mozy makes it easy!

Mozy offers several backup options to help you pick the best plan. Of course, they are best known for their free service, but if you have more than 2GB of files that you want to keep safe (and it’s really easy to do, now days), you can protect everything you care about for less than $5 per month. So, for the cost of a foot-long sandwich, all of your files and precious family photos can be safe and secure.

Mozy Home Free

Mozy Online Backup: 2GB Free. Automatic. Secure.

MozyHome is probably the perfect choice for most of us who want to backup our home computer or laptop. All you have to do is sign up for an account, install the Mozy software, and pick out the files you want to backup. Mozy will do the rest. Mozy can backup your files automatically or go by a schedule (daily, weekly, monthly).

MozyHome also offers a really nice bandwidth throttling feature, which means you can tell Mozy how much of your Internet connection to use. This means you can work or play like you always do with a minimum impact from running a backup job. Speaking of work, you don’t have to close all of your files for them to be backed up. Mozy can backup open and “locked” files, letting you work unhindered at your convenience.

Mozy Home Unlimited Backups

Many of us have more than 2GB of files that we would like to backup, especially if you have a decent collection of music and digital photos on your computer. Mozy will backup everything you care about, far beyond the 2GB mark, for only $4.95.

Mozy for Macs

Good news, Mac Lovers! Mozy Home for Mac is making its debut as the first unlimited online backup service for the Mac. Thousands of beta customers have worked to bring the power of Mozy to Mac users like you. I personally haven’t gotten to use the Mac version of Mozy, but according to their website it is “sleek, sexy, and… scrumdidliumptious.” Not sure what that last word means but it sure does sound impressive.

Who uses Mozy?

“I prefer Mozy.” – Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal

“Backing up data is a pain in the neck. The only way to make people do it is to automate the process. Mozy does that.” – Daniel Lyons, Newsweek

“Instead of worrying what might happen to your laptop during flight, use Mozy.com to backup your files before you leave.” – Bonnie Ruberg, Forbes

“The other is to use one of a number of online backup service providers such as Box.net, Symantec Online Backup, Carbonite, or Mozy that offer low cost gigabyte-level storage.” – David Strom, PC World

“For a fair price, you can keep a secure offsite backup of your most important files, without worrying about storage limits. If you pay for a year or more at once, you even get a discount. What’s not to love?” – Susie Ochs, MacLife

“Mozy cleverly solves the where-are-my-settings problem with “backup sets” that cover many popular programs, in addition to its automatic coverage of an enormous range of file types.” – Rob Pegoraro, WashingtonPost

“Fortunately, everything worked out as well as it could for both of them after Mr. Wade, a business consultant, reinstalled a clean version of Windows and restored his and his wife’s personal files with Mozy, an online backup service that maintains a copy of all of the files in a distant electronic bunker.” – Peter Wayner, The New York Times

“For online backup, I recommend Mozy Home. For $5 a month, it will automatically backup all the data you can fit on a single PC’s hard drive.” – Lincoln Spector, PC World