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Title: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: bill on February 01, 2011, 07:59:24 AM
Is there nowhere left I can backup my massive multimedia collection?!

QuoteMozy scraps unlimited backups (http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20030096-264.html)

Mozy, the online backup service provider and EMC subsidiary, plans to announce today that it's dumping its subscription permitting customers to store unlimited data.

The reason is not hard to guess: with ever-growing quantities of photos and videos, the unlimited plan is financially unsustainable, the company said.
Title: Re: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: ASPD on February 01, 2011, 11:22:24 AM
You could try here, heard from a friend the service is quite ok (even the cheaper plan cost more, but if they change the prices as announced, I think this one is way more convenient bearing in mind  it's unlimited)

http://www.livedrive.com/features/packages
Title: Re: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: bill on February 03, 2011, 07:33:48 AM
I hadn't heard of LiveDrive before. Interesting.

I'm seeing a lot of people recommend CrashPlan as an alternative. Anybody heard of them?
Title: Re: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: Rumbas on February 04, 2011, 01:17:05 PM
We had our home usb disc crash with all the family photos on it. Major cluster fuck, so now we're hooking up https://www.jungledisk.com/
We connect a usb disc to the pc and have Jungledisc mount that drive and back-up directly from the usb disc.

This way we have the data both on disc and in the cloud.
Title: Re: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: ukgimp on February 04, 2011, 02:50:34 PM
Jungle disk is good. Plus the home NAS.

I remember RC saying that he had backups 3 daisy chaining of something mental. :-)
Title: Re: Mozy scraps unlimited backups
Post by: rcjordan on February 04, 2011, 05:04:45 PM
>backups 3 daisy chaining

Close, gimpy.

I have 2 on the system and they do backups every 4 hours. One is set 2 hours ahead of the other.  The theory is that I shouldn't have to go more than 2 hours back to retrieve data but if the newest one has failed then I drop back to the 4 hour one.  I have a third drive located out of the office. Once a month I swap it out with one of the 2 doing the active backups.

For XP, I'm using a free backup utility called Karen's Replicator. I'm pretty sure Louise is using Replicator on her W7 system.