I didn't realize you had so much data Paula.
Mozy Home would not be the best solution for that amount... it is
oriented for avg. people's document storage. Not sure Mozy Pro would
be better either.
For those avg. amounts Mozy does take a day to do the initial backup (at
a 2gb to 9gb / day rate) but thereafter it only does differential backup
for anything that has changed or been added/ deleted so it doesn't take
long after the initial backup has been completed. And Mozy is meant
only as a backup tool ... not filesharing or online storage ... thus
the $4.95/ mo. unlimited storage good price and easy interface.
And if you look at Mozy's options you will see you can throttle the
bandwidth it uses or schedule it's operation for convenient periods so
it should never interfere with other processes.
Also Mozy is owned by a blue chip company EMC (VMware...) so they will
be around and stay competitive. They now are expanding Mozy
technology into enterprise backups with Mozy Enterprise.
But S3/ Jungle disk is probably more the kind of online storage tool for
you. It will cost more and take more work on your part but give you the
flexibility and scale you want.
db
Paula Minor wrote:
For your wife, I would recommend Mozy Home. It's transparent with a
decent user interface, it's free up to a certain size, cheap after
that, you can have a private key or one that can be recovered from
Mozy. You just can't do filesharing... only backup and restore.
db
DB, I just signed up for Mozy at home. Price was great for unlimited
storage. But, it is so S-L-O-W that it's almost pointless to have. It
will take me YEARS to back everything up at this rate. I have 450 GB
of music,podcasts,tv shows, photos,plugins and documents to back up.
I am on a Mac....maybe that makes a difference but it has Mac
software. I had it running for 24 hrs and it had only uploaded a tiny
fraction of a % of the total files! So I stopped it and set it to only
backup my documents folder which is 13GB. It has been running all day
and only has 10% uploaded so far. It also slows down my web browsing
and I couldn't get email to go out unless I stopped it. It's running
now and email is going out so not sure what changed.
All in all, unless you only have a tiny amount to backup, I don't
think it's such a good solution. And, you can't go on and "see" your
files. You have to redownload the backup to see it. Guess I'll stick
with external drives and try to remember to take it to my son's house.
Oh, I'm on Comcast Cable with currently 19703 kbps down and 1511 kbps up
Paula
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