That's an excellent solution if you have the discipline to go get the drive, bring it home, do your backup, and bring the drive offsite regularly.
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Best Online backup service? Ditching Mozy after price hike...
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That's an excellent solution if you have the discipline to go get the drive, bring it home, do your backup, and bring the drive offsite regularly.
Cost of online services? I pay $5/month.
I also have two sets of external disks. The online service is only for true emergencies.
Does anyone know if there's an entirely free, unlimited service, perhaps supported by advertising?
I know, that's perhaps asking a bit much, but I'd use it. I'm good at ignoring advertising!
I know, that's perhaps asking a bit much, but I'd use it. I'm good at ignoring advertising!
Try MyOtherDrive. I really like them and they are reasonable in their pricing and they support MAC. If you have allot of files they offer postal back. If you have an external hard drive you can mail it in and they will upload it to your account for your. They only charge postage. If you don't have a hard drive they will provided one for you.
They have amazing file sharing.
www.myotherdrive.com
They have amazing file sharing.
www.myotherdrive.com
Yes, I tried online and it's just to slow. So I own a set of disks and rotate them around between a fire safe and my office file cabinet. Every year or so I retaire my oldest drive and buy a new one that is the largest available size.
I tried on-line but found it woud take over a month
Seriously folks you need to check out www.myotherdrive.com
Good pricing and you can send in your external hard drive and they will upload it for you for only the cost of postage!
They have unattended back up as well.
Good pricing and you can send in your external hard drive and they will upload it for you for only the cost of postage!
They have unattended back up as well.
You registered to post the first message, then posted again 90 minutes later. Just because of that, I will never use the service you mentioned.
After three years I have also decided to leave Mozy, I just dont want to pay $49.99 per month for my backup. Check out Dolly Drive, they are new but its great concept with Time Machine.
I got the wrong estimate because my backup vanished. went from 180 gigs to 400k. My wife's was fine. That was the end of mozy they are really going to loose business hopefully.
Their offer seems really good. 5 bucks per month for 50GB + an additional 5GB per month, so the price per gig is constantly going down. I like that concept.
What I don't like is TimeMachine, though.
Is there any way to use Dolly Drive just like a normal folder, like Dropbox, or is TM the only way to access the partition?
I would say TM is the only way you can use it. I like their concept with +5GB every month a lot. In few months i should be able to back-up everything and then I dont think i will be using 5GB every month. I also like their support, they are very fast with responding on Forums as well if you submit ticket.
I'd highly recommend Carbonite as an alternative to Mozy. I'm currently backing up 100GB+ of music, photos, and video across my MacBook Pro, iMac and iPhone. Carbonite is much easier to use than Mozy. Plus, Carbonite is close to the same price as Mozy at $55/year (less than $5/month).
Check out my How To video's on Carbonite.
http://watchmebackuponline.com/how-to-download-install-carbonite-online-backup
Another vote for CrashPlan. Because:
-CrashPlan can replace your local TM backup too, since it's encrypted, seems to be less overhead than TM in terms of resources, and has compression and data deduplication built in (doesn't backup the same block of data twice, like Dropbox)
-CrashPlan supports all HFS+ file streams, like file label colors, symbolic links, "where from" attribute for spotlight, custom folder icons, etc. No other backup service except Arq and Dropbox seems to do the same (Dropbox doesn't support file label colors, but supports everything else).
-CrashPlan has an option where they send you a 1TB disk to seed an initial backup if you'd like
-They have unlimited plans for unlimited number of computers
-Their tech support is a little slow, but they're knowledgeable and try to help you out if they can
-You can create an encryption key separate from your account login. This means Crashplan is not in possession of the key that would decrypt your data. This also means you lose all your data if you lose your key.
-CrashPlan app has extensive file exclusion/inclusion controls
-Like most/all these services they are not very transparent about something going on with their servers.
-Unlike TM, you will need to restore your Mac, install CrashPlan, then bring all your files back. They also have an option to ship you a drive with your data - costs money to do that.
-Has the same clunky restrictions that TM does with filevault-ed accounts, but if you have only one filevault-ed account then you can install CrashPlan inside it and have timely backups.
-CrashPlan can replace your local TM backup too, since it's encrypted, seems to be less overhead than TM in terms of resources, and has compression and data deduplication built in (doesn't backup the same block of data twice, like Dropbox)
-CrashPlan supports all HFS+ file streams, like file label colors, symbolic links, "where from" attribute for spotlight, custom folder icons, etc. No other backup service except Arq and Dropbox seems to do the same (Dropbox doesn't support file label colors, but supports everything else).
-CrashPlan has an option where they send you a 1TB disk to seed an initial backup if you'd like
-They have unlimited plans for unlimited number of computers
-Their tech support is a little slow, but they're knowledgeable and try to help you out if they can
-You can create an encryption key separate from your account login. This means Crashplan is not in possession of the key that would decrypt your data. This also means you lose all your data if you lose your key.
-CrashPlan app has extensive file exclusion/inclusion controls
-Like most/all these services they are not very transparent about something going on with their servers.
-Unlike TM, you will need to restore your Mac, install CrashPlan, then bring all your files back. They also have an option to ship you a drive with your data - costs money to do that.
-Has the same clunky restrictions that TM does with filevault-ed accounts, but if you have only one filevault-ed account then you can install CrashPlan inside it and have timely backups.
I will take a look at BackBlaze, CrashPlan, and MyOtherDrive. I too have been on Mozy for 3+ years with 200+GB of data.
I compared Mozy and Carbonite about a year ago and didn't like Carbonite because it wouldn't let me specify specific directories to back up. Has this changed with Carbonite? That is the primary reason I reupped with Mozy last year.
I compared Mozy and Carbonite about a year ago and didn't like Carbonite because it wouldn't let me specify specific directories to back up. Has this changed with Carbonite? That is the primary reason I reupped with Mozy last year.
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I noticed that BackBlaze follows the carbonite model with not letting you pick what to back up. It also has a 9GB ceiling on files and it excludes files.
Excluded Files
Some of these excluded files include: ISO (Disk Images), VMC VHD VMSN (Virtual Drives), SYS (System Configuration & Drivers), EXE (Application Files). Backblaze also doesn't backup backups like Time Machine and Retrospect RDB. Backblaze also excludes podcasts in iTunes.
Well my Mozy plan is about to renew in January, so I need to find a new online backup service. Has any new options opened up, or has anyone's recommendations changed?
Backblaze 2 just was released and removes the 9GB limit.
It also has a policy of backing up more than you need (erroring on the side of caution).
I use BackBlaze on 50+ customer's systems and am super happy with it's performance and reliability.
I have only had to restore files a dozen times or so, but those dozen times have been WELL worth the cost of admission.
I would backup locally, with BackBlaze (or CrashPlan) as a secondary safety net.
For $4 a month, are you seriously still looking for a cheaper alternative?
Well that didn't last long >.<
I don't quite trust backblaze just yet.
Backblaze reports that I have about 80GB of files
However, I have exactly 105gb of files I want backed up.
Looks like I can't get away from Mozy no matter what I do.
I don't quite trust backblaze just yet.
Backblaze reports that I have about 80GB of files
However, I have exactly 105gb of files I want backed up.
Looks like I can't get away from Mozy no matter what I do.
Well I definitely think I'll give backblaze a shot. Anyone else care to chime in?
Last time I checked CrashPlan was the only online backup that supported all the OS X HFS+ extended file attributes. CrashPlan works perfectly for me and their software works well on my iMac.