New Year, New Resolution - Backup

Several new online backup alternatives were recently described in the NYT. MOZY stand out. The price is $55 a year, storage is unlimited, an automated background Windows program keeps your PC continuously backed up and a Mac version is planned.

Backing Up Online Mozy offers 2 gigabytes of backup at no charge. Mozy is flexible, and more technical. It can back up only changed portions of files. You can specify times and dates for backups. You can view 30 days’ worth of backups, too — a feature that prevents you from deleting a file from your PC accidentally and then finding its deletion mirrored in your latest backup. And Mozy offers dozens of novice-hostile options like “Enable Bandwidth Throttle” and “Don’t back up if the CPU is over this % busy.”

Of course, online backup is slow and recovery would be snail-like. Mozy does offer a solution that gets you your files faster: a DVD of your files, shipped overnight for an added fee. For example, to FedEx a 50-gigabyte backup to you on DVDs, Mozy charges about $90.

I purchased and use SyncBackSE. Very easy and dependable.