mozy.com

zetec452 · 11 Jun 2006 at 20:09

www.mozy.com an interesting little beast offering 2gig of backupspace in exchange for one email per week.

I've signed up and pop a little unimportant data on it.

What do you guys think of services like these?

Berserker · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:00

Fine for unimportant data, but I wouldn't use it for important stuff. There's a term in the fine print which suggests that they're under no obligation to return your data to you.

zetec452 · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:10

I've not put any important data on it. Although i'd like to utilize some of my ftp space with a nice little gui agent like that to backup important stuff.

Does anyone know of any commercial programs? I've got syncbackSE but it won't encrypt or compress data over ftp.

Berserker · 11 Jun 2006 at 21:24

FTP is almost by definition not encrypted - unless you get lucky and find one of the rare cases that supports encrypted FTP.

Barring that, you need to find another protocol. if your host supports ssh, you're sorted (use scp/sftp or similar), otherwise you may have a problem.

zetec452 · 11 Jun 2006 at 22:41

I've found this handy program

http://www.han-soft.com/habt.php

It apparently masks the file, its probably not the best but could do the trick. I can also utlise my own ftp space.

toosepin · 12 Jun 2006 at 04:45

I've got 20Gb of Web hosting space all nice and available via FTP. Aside from that I've got multiple harddrives both external and internal.

For any documents/text files/images that I need to retrieve from another computer pronto, I simply email it to myself at both my Web host and at GMail for extra backup and ease of access.

Augmented · 12 Jun 2006 at 09:18

Berserker said:
Barring that, you need to find another protocol. if your host supports ssh, you're sorted (use scp/sftp or similar), otherwise you may have a problem.

That's my preferred method, passing between home/work/work-fileserver. I'd rather have any documents of my own backed up on machines I either have complete control over or have a decent level of trust in the security of.

For junk (forum images etc), I might consider such a service, but I don't think I'd ever have need for enough junk files to require more space than my current hosting offers.

zetec452 · 12 Jun 2006 at 09:20

I agree that i'd never put my stuff on any free storage space. I have raid1 I backup to an external drive and have already ftp'd any important stuff up to my webspace.

It would be nice to run a bigger backup onto webspace, I do have 100gig of ftp space that I can use.

Im also looking for options on behalf of some other people who aren't so careful about their data.