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@Irelandyes, that's true. however, the thinking is that your internal hd is actually unlikely to die, so the likelihood of needing this is relatively small. most people will put up with the slow transfer times if it means they can retrieve their data (which might happen once in a few years). external hd is no good if your house burns down with your 'backups' inside the house. or if there's a flood, hurricane, burglary, careless child, incontinent cat, clumsy missus, anywhere near your computerthis is a good service. dugg

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I'm having a different issue. When I try to restore and decrypt my files, I end up with a bunch of folders and zero byte files! Yikes. Make sure you do a test restore before you rely on this, because it definitely has some issues.

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As someone who lost his database class term project to a dead IBM Deskstar (I don't remember if it was the infamous "Deathstar" model), I can only second the parent post and add that data loss is data loss-- it doesn't necessarily result from a crash. In my case, the HDD lasted well over 3 years and was happily running Win2k.I do confess that after my experience and after hearing about the "Deathstar" horror stories, I'm a bit leery of Hitachi drives.

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Did a couple of test restores and didn't find anything wrong. I love how you can switch between a hierarchical view and file type view for restoring the files. Makes life a lot easier if you don't remember where you put the original!For what it's worth, here's my code for a win-win referral (how often does that happen?): <a class="user" href="https://mozy.com/?code=SVU4AA&quot;&gt;https://mozy.com/?code=SVU4AA&lt;/a&gt;

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So I was trying to use www.Crashplan.com to do off-site back up (see references above to fires, earthquakes, locusts and/or ex-girlfriends) for my 500gb external full of music, photos etc. CP said it would take 180 days to back up! Thats with a cable modem at home, and a T1 at work. So much for that. CrashPlan tell me they are going to create a version where you do a direct drive to drive copy to seed the back up, then you take that drive off-site and then the internet bit just has to deal with changes, not the whole 500 gig. Seems like a great idea, sadly not implemented yet. Not sure how pure off-site companies like Mozy are going to deal with big drives and slow upload times. If anyone else has an solution, I'd love to hear it.Cheers

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Trying this out right now.This seems to be similiar to Asigra (another remote backup solution) in that you do one full backup first and then all subsequent backups are incrementals.What that means that while the full backup is going to be a long time, once its done, all future backups should be fairly quick. Futhermore, your remote backup will always be current, so any restores you may have to do will be the most recent.That being said,the backup throughput is TERRIBLE. Even taking into account that I am backing up over wireless on a cable modem (and a over the wireless connection at work), it took 2-3 hours just to upload 100-110 megabytes (about out of 400 megabytes of data). Ugh.However, the nice thing about this type of backup is that you don't need to start from scratch when you re-initate the backup, but rather you will start from where you left off. And to be fair, I am running a beta very of the Mozy client (which has the ugliest dashboard icon I ever seen), so I should have expecteed issues (although I am not sure how that would affect the throughput.All things considering too, with the encryption and compression overhead, it is likely that it is halfway done. And since it appears that the word is out about Mozy, I am wouldn't be surprised if they are having scalibility issues.Would I recommend it? Too early, so far. I am giving them a chance to work out the issues (it's 4.95 a month, so it wouldn't hurt to stick around). I would NOT recommend it for backing up you iTunes libraries or your Photoshop content, but stick with important stuff like your mail files or documents. This is especially true if you are on a dinky cable connection like me. Then again, I doubt that even with sufficient bandwidth that you'll get that much uploaded, so unless you're an early adopter like me, try this out service out in about a couple of months while they work out their issues.

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So how much you make with those affliate links idiot? "If you try it right now" has a affiliate link.I don't trust my private data with such company inviting such spammers.

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For what it's worth... I did backup my iPhoto library of 9.8 GB and the initial complete backup took about 40 hours (MacMini on a 100 mbit down/10 mbit up connection).

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Another referral link for anyone wanting to sign up.<a class="user" href="https://mozy.com/?code=UXW2GB&quot;&gt;https://mozy.com/?code=UXW2GB&lt;/a&gt;

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Want 256MB more free from mozy?! 2.25GB<a class="user" href="https://mozy.com/?code=NS5HTG&quot;&gt;https://mozy.com/?code=NS5HTG&lt;/a&gt; This link will bring you to Mozy FREE sign up page -- at the bottom of the page, click "Get 2GB Backup Free!" Once you start using Mozy, this will give us both an extra 256MB

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Here's a tutorial for creating your own incremental backup that will backup and upload to a web host via SSH. It uses rsync and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux:<a class="user" href="http://esdev.net/diy-online-incremental-backups/&quot;&gt;http://esdev.net/diy-online-incremental-backups/&lt;/a&gt;Hope this helps.

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Sign up with Mozy using this link and get an extra 512mb of space free: <a class="user" href="https://mozy.com/?ref=R64P2I&quot; rel="nofollow">https://mozy.com/?ref=R64P2I&lt;/a&gt;

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