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Easy backup

Thursday, March 15th, 2007

Mozy Mozy is backup made easy. Create an account, download the client, select the directories you want backed up and then just leave it in the background. On a fast line I had my 2gb free account filled up in a few hours. Restoring files is easy; just request a package of files you want restored and a few minutes later you are emailed a link to download the package.

The unlimited version is $4.95 per-month which is peanuts really.

One thing to note is that this isn’t an Amazon S3 competitor. I can’t share my Mozy backed-up files with anyone else, I can’t even view a file “hosted” by Mozy. It is a backup service, nothing more and nothing less. For this it is much cheaper than Amazon S3.

One missing feature in the beta Mac OS X client I am using is external HD support. It is available in the Windows client but is “a few months away rough guess” in the Mac OS X client. Most of the files I want to backup are on an external HD so I will just have to wait. But the test I did with 2gb worked very nicely so I am confident the 150gb on my external HD will work fine too.

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Music on Amazon S3

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

I just backed up the 5.5gig of my music collection to my Amazon S3 account using S3Fox Organiser. It was largely a painless process except for any song that had a # character in its name. Not sure why S3 won’t accept that but a simple rename sorted it.

I especially liked how the transfers are atomic. If for some reason a file failed half-way then it wouldn’t leave a half-uploaded file on S3. This made transfering 5.5gig painless with no worrying about what was and wasn’t uploaded properly.

Total cost? The initial 5.5gig transfer will cost me about one buck ten cents. From there on it will cost just under a dollar per month. Fantastic!

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Carbonite will store it

Monday, September 18th, 2006

Carbonite seemed too good to be true to me. They advertise that they will store any amount of data for you for just $49 a year. It is mainly a backup system rather than an online file-system but unlimited storage at that price is incredible. They do note that you are limited to uploading 2gb per-day (15gb per-day down) so you can’t murder their system if you have a huge pipe.

Thinking I might have missed some fine print I emailed them and asked if I could backup my 350gb of photos and music to their service. A few hours later and I had their reply; yes, no problem, go for it. The only small catch is that after your first 50gb is uploaded they start limiting your upload rate. Not sure how much and I guess I will find out “soon” enough. “Soon” because 50gb is going to take awhile to reach.

The only wrinke in the Caronite solution for me is that it is Windows only. No Mac or Linux version yet.

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