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A simple Mac backup strategy
- Alex3917 17y agoI just bought Mozy last week. It's taken a full week to back up 100 Gigs worth of my data. So although it's unlimited, it's definitely not the only backup solution you'd want to use. That is, if your house burns down then it's good to have, but otherwise you really want to be restoring from an external HD and not waiting two full weeks to get your data back. The other thing is that there are lots of discount codes you can find on the web just by searching, so you definitely shouldn't be paying the full $5 a month.
- kazuya 17y agoI've used Mozy for a while and I agree with you. I have to have local backup plan apart from Mozy. Now I'm trying out CrashPlan. It supports local network backup as well as remote network backup.
- rarrrrrr 17y agoYou might like SpiderOak: It includes a "Keep your own copy" option for all the encrypted data blocks. You can specify a local folder, or a SSH/SFTP server as the target. (I founded SpiderOak in '06)
- zimbu668 17y agoJamie Zawinsky has a simple backup plan that you may want to consider as well(http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html). I would recommend one change to his strategy though, brand does matter, as in get different brands or at least models. What if there's a manufacturing defect in your Eastern Analog Brontosaurus drives? All three could fail in a very short time frame.