Mozy – an internet Time Machine for Mac OS X
Posted on January 27, 2009 by admin
Time Machine a great function of Mac OS X does not need any special presentation. This great feature backs up files on an external hard drive. But what if we do not have an additional external hard disk and we want to back up important files we are working on? The solution may be Mozy – a service that provides 2GB of free storage and backup program for Mac OS X to look after our important files and directories.
Backup is of course carried out over the Internet. Copies of deleted files are kept on for another 30 days, which gives quite a lot of time to restore them in case of deleting them by accident. Registration on the site is of course free of charge. For a small fee ($ 4.95 per month is $ 59.4 year) we receive unlimited space for back-up copies of our files. Back up assistant installed in the Mac OS X chooses rather fairly large standard folders (pictures, movies) to show us that the 2GB of free space is definitely not enough, but luckily it is up to us to decide what files have to be backed up. Reducing the size of the back ups in the free version can be annoying, but the offer is a part of a broader alternative to the services served by Apple, even for the built-in system Time Machine. If in fact these 2 GB are enough for us we do not have to worry about an external drive for a systematic Time Machine backup. Worth mentioning that Mozy provides its services to users of both Mac OS X and Windows.
Selecting files and locations to which backups are to be created:
Backup process of large collections may take up to several days (depends on the bandwidth of Internet connection):
Mozy nests in the menu bar of Mac OS X:
Mozy website: http://mozy.com/
Comments (1)
I’m trying out Mozy, too (again). I get frustrated, though, because it doesn’t just pick up where it leaves off if your computer goes to sleep.
I’m (trying to) back up 365GB, so restarting all the time is not efficient.