Mozy on Over..

Jimmy and I have been researching options for backing up our home computer since my newest project is to take all of our photos and our parents' photos and scan them on to our home computer. We've been researching different methods when I asked the IT guy at work and he suggested Mozy.com. He is starting to convert all his clients to this site and couldn't find a bad thing to say about them. The company I work for even uses them. It's about $60 a year for unlimited backup of music, movies, photos and documents- about the cost of an external drive. My complaints with external drives are- what if the drive crashes? What if the drive is stolen along with my computer? Mozy.com instead is an off-site backup using your Internet connection. They use a secure line and it runs in the background of your computer so you don't even have to remember to backup files. Mozy will do it automatically! If you buy a year then they give you a free month of service plus I found a coupon code online for 15% off (EBAY15) so the fee is now $3.85/month!!

Check it out!!

My Favorite Testimonial: From BusinessWeek
When Damian Zikakis' laptop computer was stolen last May, he figured that was the last he would see of it. A thief had broken into the Birmingham (Mich.) offices of his employer, Boyden Executive Search. Zikakis promptly bought a new computer. He had subscribed to an automated computer backup service called Mozy, and he reconnected via his new laptop. That's when the Mozy service, which costs $5 per month for individuals, really paid off.
Zikakis noticed that some photographs and other files that weren't his were being saved by the backup system. He realized they belonged to the person who now had his original laptop. Doing a little sleuthing, he examined the photos. A teenage boy had posted images of himself mugging for the camera like an urban gangsta. A woman, who turned out to be the boy's mother, had stored a document on the laptop that included her name, address, and cell-phone number. With a little help from the police, Zikakis recovered his computer. "I'm a very happy Mozy customer," he says.

I just wish I had known about this site years ago when our original home computer was stolen!