Mozy Online Backup: Set-up and forget, until you need it!
More than 1 in 20 of the 
people who read this blog are likely to suffer a data loss in the next twelve months. These are the startling statistic quoted by the company behind my preferred off-site, on-line backup solution – Mozy.
6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year ?
Unfortunately, there are numerous ways you can lose vital information, 
hard disk failure, laptop getting dropped or stolen, accidental deletion and data corruption to name a few.
That’s where automated online backup solutions such as Mozy provide great piece of mind, especially as their FREE accounts provide up to 2GB of storage.
Personally I’ve used the free account capabilities with my own home PC and my daughter’s laptops – the beauty is that none of us need to remember to back stuff up it just happens automatically – now worries.
If you’ve more that 2Gb of data then the Home User account offers great value too – for only around £30 / year if you take advantage of the discount code shown below – you get unlimited storage for one PC and this includes any connected external hard drives!
Set up is a straight-forward, just download and install the software, create an account and tell it what you want to backup (specifically folder location and file types) and then leave the software to do the rest. The first backup naturally takes quite a while, but after that the incremental updates only take a few minutes.
Obviously all this depends on the speed on your PC and Internet connection but, by way of example, I recently backed up around 180MB in just over 5 minutes.
If or should that be when you need to get the data restored, this can be done online to a either the original or a new computer, so long as you can login in to your Mozy account.
So my recommendation is – don’t delay, try today – it won’t cost a thing and should offer you great piece of mind should disaster strike.
This is good advice. We started using Mozy a week ago, and found it very easy to set up and use.