Mozy 2.0 Online Backup Review Discussion

By Dustin Sklavos

Mozy took home our "Editor's Choice" award among online backup products last year, and now its out to top its game with Mozy 2.0. Is this new version just a feature-tweak or did the best just get better? We break it down in this review.

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Whoah! They have v2.0 out??

I have been using v1 for several months now (and loving it).

I guess I got to grab the new version .

 

Can this 2.0 software backup mapped drives on my PC? I have a WHS and would like to find a service that allows me to back that up offsite.

 

These subscription-based cloud services are somewhat of a ripoff in my opinion. Over a three-year period, you're paying more than you would for an external hard drive and a new router with a USB port. The time it would take to back up a measly 80GB drive online would surprise you. NAS lets me do it far quicker and does not rob me of my internet bandwidth.

Services like mozy, sugarsync and dropbox aren't useless, just slow and expensive. I'm sure there are many examples where a free 2GB account could be very useful (file sharing), but I find the USB port on my router far more valuable as a feature, and with 2TB drives hitting $100 soon, I get better bang for the buck.

 

I think the key to these is that your data would be safe in the event of a fire, floor, theft, or just general laziness failing to backup to your external drive. I personally believe for data that you can't lose, both onsite and offsite backup is probably a good policy.