Travel Technology - Free Remote Back-up

Have you tried MOZY. I have and it works well. What with the hazards of travel, frequent remote back-ups offer safety for critical data, spreadsheet files, word processing files, pictures, music and more.

Each of you who signs up, you will get a free 2 gb of space and IF you use my referral code both of us will get an extra 0.5 gb (oops -- only an extra 256mb) of free storage space.

Check it out at

https://mozy.com/?code=JL2FEG

Thanks.

I am not sure if this type of post is allowed here so I am reporting myself to the moderators. Those who personally disapprove but want to try the service can jusr go to http://www.mozy.com. You still get 2 gbs free, but neither of us get the extra 0.5 gb. The 2 was more than enough until I loaded my Africa pictures onto my laptop!!!

Also look at xdrive.com which is now owned by AOL and gives away 5 gigs.

Stu

PS: I figured by mentioning more than one solution, the chances of getting in trouble with a moderator gets greatly diminished.

Thanks for the option. I just have this thing about aol. It was so long home of the inept that i avoid it at all costs. Still, it is free now and may be worth a try.

Soon everyone will be offering free back-up. MOSY works well for me and if just a few sign up, I'll be at 5 there. Maybe I'll do both and send pictures and music to one and business files to the other. Right now i trust MOSY for business files.

That said, my wife's machine -- going on 4 years old now freezes on MOSY so I may try AOL for her. Need remote back-up of Quicken files and Quicken wants to charge big bucks.

The cost of storage is well under $1 per GB. The difference between free and $1 isn't that much. Plus, my digital camera can fill 2 GB in a few hours, but it would take days to upload that much to a web site. :)

What I've seem costs at least $60 per year ($5 per month). For business use without pictures or music 2 gbs is a lot. For $5 per month MOSY gives you 50 gb. Where initially, it takes a long time to transfer a lot of data, updates of business related files usually go quickly.

So far I have saved paying for these services. I will open several accounts to extent allowed with MOSY and AOL to hanldle my needs and to back up my wife's Quicken files. Minimum savings will be $120 for the two of us.

That will buy a small mileage run!!!

What I've seem costs at least $60 per year ($5 per month). For business use without pictures or music 2 gbs is a lot. For $5 per month MOSY gives you 50 gb. Where initially, it takes a long time to transfer a lot of data, updates of business related files usually go quickly.

So far I have saved paying for these services. I will open several accounts to extent allowed with MOSY and AOL to hanldle my needs and to back up my wife's Quicken files. Minimum savings will be $120 for the two of us.

That will buy a small mileage run!!!

I think the post by bobster refers to purchasing an external hard drive, which you can easily get for less than 1 dollar per gigabyte.

I am looking into buying a NAS, but thanks for the link about MOSY. I plan to sign up and hopefully refer some friends as well, increasing my available storage, too.

I use a Mac and not all work with Mac...

Thanks!

fuzz

I use mozy and have used xdrive. Both have their pro's and con's but I prefer mozy.

One thing to keep in mind with Mozy is that they rely on the Volume Shadow Copy Service and a recent update seems to have broken mozy's ability to backup open Thunderbird files. They claim it is something Microsoft caused, but it was a mozy update that started giving me trouble. I just close Thunderbird and night and everything gets backed up fine.

Attempts to set up xdrive went poorly. When I finally got connected and an account open, I tried a 168 mb back up and timed out without anything showing up on xdrive. To go to 50 gb with xdrive is $9.95 a month compared to $4.95 with MOZY.

MOZY's automatic backup works really well for me. I am at 2.9 gb of a free 3.0 allotment and need an extra gb or two. Sure wish it would give 5 gb like xdrive.

A couple of you have told me you used https://mozy.com/?code=JL2FEG to sign on. If so, I should soon have my extra. Once you get up and running using my number, you will have 2.5 gb available. Get your spouse or significant other to join and you will then be at 3.0 and they at 2.5. Not a bad deal.

MOZY now only gives 256mb extra per referral. I felt sure when it was starting out that it was 0.5gb, but maybe not. Anyhow, now it is 256mb extra per referral.

I stared with xdrive but it has been flaky for me lately so I just created a mozy account using your link so hope you get your extra 256MB

Thanks