Mozy On-line Backup (2Gb)

Nowadays we store our entire lives on the personal computer. Everything from music, entertainment, business data and online banking is stored in digital format on our PC. We vigorously make backups every week to an external disk drive to protect us from device failure but what most of us do not realise is that this backup method does not protect against fire and other natural disasters like tornadoes, earthquakes and flooding. Even though we all make backups; a fire would destroy both our data and backup drive. And this is where Mozy comes to the rescue.

Mozy is free, correction, absolutely free, off-site backup for up to 2GB. If you don't have many important files or pictures, 2GB may be plenty and will store most of your important data like passwords, e-mail (archive), passport copy, office documents, etc.

Scheduling a backup with Mozy is very easy and even novice users will be comfortable using it. Mozy can automatically backup your data in the background whenever you are connected to the internet. This way, your data is automatically backed-up while you are working on your computer! Mozy is set-and-forget backup software for your PC!

Your data is encrypted on Mozy's servers using either Mozy's own private key or your own passphrase. I highly recommend selecting your own passphrase so that only you have access to the data stored on Mozy's servers. Do not forget your password since Mozy will not be able to help you in case of password loss.

Conclusion: The free 2 Gigabyte of backup storage is a must have for your most important data. The program is intuuitive to use and even novice users will have less problems using mozy than say XDrive or Window's built-in backup program. Because of the limitations of current broadband internet connections the upload speed is rather slow so long files like video files will really take quite some time to transfer. On the other hand, this all happens in the background while you work so if you just leave it running, you'll be fine.

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