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will will increase to more than 115,000 petabytes by 2019, compared to under 30,000 petabytes this year, representing almost a four-fold increase

10 terabytes would hold all the information stored in the Library of Congress. A single petabyte is a hundred times that.
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Um, that's because the vast majority of the Library of Congress is text information. I'm pretty sure that their collection of cat videos is severely lacking... (grin)

will will increase to more than 115,000 petabytes by 2019, compared to under 30,000 petabytes this year, representing almost a four-fold increase

10 terabytes would hold all the information stored in the Library of Congress. A single petabyte is a hundred times that. Perspective

For me I use Mozy (note: referral code, gives me a little more space) for all important files (as you don't get hundreds of gigs of storage - 2GB for free, 50Gb for £5 a month). It periodically (twice a day IIRC) makes deltas of changed files and sends them off to the cloud somewhere, either encrypted with your own or their default key if you'd rather not worry about losing it.

You want to restore, click the icon, select files, and click the usual "yes overwrite" dialog options (or you can log on to the web and download an encrypted zip archive if you prefer). Its pretty slick now, and of course, acts as a backup for files you accidentally deleted or corrupted.

Mozy allows you to store stuff on their system with a private encryption. they do warn you loads about "if you lose the key, you lose the data". That's a backup solution primarily, but they're working on a 'stash' that is an instant-sync type thing.

Its hardly the first one to do this, Mozy does the same - it allows you to use your own keys to encrypt all your data that's transferred. (you can use Mozy's keys instead which provides for more convenience, but hey - your choice)

It also has a nice interface to download your files - integrated as an Explorer shell extension (if you're on Windows). It doesn't provide a 'ftp' facility though.. but I think I'll suggest that to them .. instead its more a backup tool - just like Spideroak.

note: that link is an affiliate, they'll give me more backup space if you use it, if you don't want to, google 'Mozy' instead.

To quote a Mozy user,
http://mozy.com/blog/misc/backing-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-with-mozy/

"Gregory had mentioned that there is a 5mbps upload speed cap. In my experience, it’s much lower than that. The fastest I have seen uploads are around 1.8mbps or so. So maybe a 2mbps upload cap. "

I currently have about 1 TB of material that needs to be backed up. That will take 48.5 days to make the initial backup using Mozy...or about 2 hours to backup to another HDD. Honestly I think most people acquire or create new data faster than you could upload with a continuous stream...not to mention that if your upload pipe was 100% filled all the time, it would congest your ability to download or use the internet in any useful way.

Of course, backups are useless if you only make them once, so I want to do a backup about once a week. Guess which option I use??

Mozy is good - it's offsite backup with nice shell integration. Sadly it's Windows only though :(

http://mozy.com/

I use mozy to back up my systems. I have just under 600GB saved at mozy. They use blowfish encryption and you can use your own key so only you have access to your data (the encryption is performed locally before being transmitted over the wire). I back up both a Mac and a PC to mozy. I don't know if they have a Linux client.

For unlimited storage they charge ~50 USD/year/system being backed up. I find it well worth it for my peace of mind (it's a great off-site backup solution).

Because obviously rsync is the *only* way to *ever* backup *any* software *ever!*

I use Mozy to back up: http://mozy.com/ It's just quicker and easier than everything else out there. But there are a billion non-rsync backup options for Windows. And of course there's a Windows port of rsync, so there you go.

PowerShell isn't much like Bash, it's really only "like" itself... it's basically an Object Oriented CLI system which access to most/all of the .net library functions. I haven't worked with it much, but it's pretty much entirely new as far as CLI concepts go. (Which is good, because I think Bash sucks ass.)

There a couple of free and fee based options. http://mozy.com/, http://www.idrive.com/, http://www.sosonlinebackup.com/, http://www.carbonite.com/, https://www.upline.com/plans/index.shtml, and many others including skydrive from Microsoft, which is free, but not strictly an online back, in the sense you need to take an extra step of making a backup locally and posting a copy on skydrive.

Parent says that "Mozy is cheap." That isn't true for commercial use. OTOH, Mozy is backed by EMC and that's exactly who you want to trust critical data with.

https://mozy.com/pro/pricing Forget it - 1TB is $500/month.

GB Cost
2 $8
10 $12
50 $32
100 $57
500 $257
1000 $507

Mozy (owned by EMC) has some sort of deal with the ABA to give members a discount, so I would take that to be somewhat of an endorsement for use by lawyers. I'm not affiliated with them in any way -- I just know about them because their booth was across from ours at the ABA TechShow.

Mozy (owned by EMC) has some sort of deal with the ABA to give members a discount, so I would take that to be somewhat of an endorsement for use by lawyers. I'm not affiliated with them in any way -- I just know about them because their booth was across from ours at the ABA TechShow.

What offsite backup services do you all use?

Mozy. But someone else on here warned me that the restore procedure can be a nightmare. I've personally never tried to backup my entire set... I've only done small numbers of files. Their backup software on Mac can be trying at times, as well...

For my active projects I use the excellent DropBox, which keeps a folder on all of your Mac, Linux, and Windows computers in sync with their servers and also acts as a versioning tool. The first 2GB is free... it's much easier than any other tool I've used before (I was doing syncs with Unison... a fantastic tool in its own right).

Or maybe you're just posting a negative review because you work for the competition? :-)

perhaps the way to fix this is for competitors to use the negative press generated from this to discredit them, if Mozy said not to bother with them because you can never trust them anymore, I'm sure it'd be a good campaign :)

(notice my link is the referral, they give me even more space that I won't use - remove if you're not happy with it, but I'm a very happy customer of Mozy, and I don't even work for them!)

Good for writers. Has autosave. Excellent uptime. And google GDRIVE for internet file storage.

Others who have file storage.
http://xdrive.com/
http://mozy.com/#

I've been using Mozy.com for back ups. The client is totally unnoticeable after it's installed. It just runs some time each day when you are not using your PC. Handles large files like .pst nicely as well. They give you 2GB free or unlimited for 5USD/month and bonus space if you refer people :)

https://mozy.com/?code=WAQ9DM/ and scroll down to 2GB free offer.

What about Mozy? http://mozy.com/ 2GB for free, or $5 a month for unlimited storage. Does versioning and is really easy to use.

How about Mozy? I really like Duplicity, but it's probably not for these users if they're asking you for help.

Your data must not be that important if you aren't willing to pay a little cash to keep it safe. That being said, Dropbox (awesome, and has clients for Win, Mac and Linux) and Mozy both give you 2 GB free. There are probably others. As far as finding this stuff, have you tried Google?

What about something like CrashPlan, JungleDisk, or even Mozy? I haven't used these, but am seriously considering adding one of them to my existing backup system. CrashPlan lets you decide who hosts your data (them, a friend with free disk space, whatever); JungleDisk relies on Amazon's S3 service, and Mozy is its own thing...

https://mozy.com/?code=UXW2GB

I think you may be referring to an old Mozy plan as well. Mozy Unlimited for home has no restrictions on space, and if you are ultra paranoid you can use your own keys. Also the initial backup is what takes the most time, after that it is essentially just differentials with a 30 day window. You can also have DVD sets created for extra redundancy and have them sent to your house or an offsite location. My initial backup took a little while but since then the diffs have been so small there hasn't been a problem.

I used to have the same opinions of netbackups as you mentioned, back when the Z drive was popular. But they have come a LONG way to meeting my paranoia needs ;) Check out https://mozy.com/support I think you will be impressed.

Case in point: the Mozy online backup EULA, which requires you to use the service only for good and for awesome, and warns against taunting the happy fun ball.

See paragraphs 2 and 3 in the LIMITATION OF LIABILITY section.

A 'superstar' programmer will find the job he wants with the salary he desires and get that job. A local company is well known for finding top flight programmers. They held a $10,000 programming deathmatch challenge. The winner got the cash prize, and a job offer. Guess what, they were extreamly successful.

http://mozy.com/contest

What you have to be prepared for is the unexpected winner:

http://uphpu.org/pipermail/uphpu/2006-November/005608.html

It was so succesful they did a second take, check here for sample questions:

http://mozy.com/contest

A 'superstar' programmer will find the job he wants with the salary he desires and get that job. A local company is well known for finding top flight programmers. They held a $10,000 programming deathmatch challenge. The winner got the cash prize, and a job offer. Guess what, they were extreamly successful.

http://mozy.com/contest

What you have to be prepared for is the unexpected winner:

http://uphpu.org/pipermail/uphpu/2006-November/005608.html

It was so succesful they did a second take, check here for sample questions:

http://mozy.com/contest

While it doesn't fit everyones taste, backup up to an online service is a fairly cheap way of getting it done. Depending on your needs, amount of data and bandwidth it might be more or less reliable/useful for you than using local disks, but I'd suggest at least looking into it.

Mozy does the job for me. There's oodles of others, but Mozy was the only one I found with a decent Mac client.

Mozy is potentially what you're looking for. Once you tell it what to backup it stays in the background and monitors the filesystem automatically, requiring no effort on the user's part. A free account gives you 2GB of storage.

If the user knows how to check their email then they should be able to master an application such as Mozy from http://mozy.com/. If they still can't get their head around such a simple app as Mozy they should do like they do with their car maintenance and out source it to a local IT company/person.

I use mozy with my own key, but instead of a file I used a passphrase (just type it in when you setup your account instead of specifying a file). I've restored successfully several times, including from my old XP box to my new Vista box.

The restore option isn't particularly bad, you have to decrypt the restore image (obviously as you encrypted it with your own key) but otherwise, its just like downloading a tarball of your backups.

They do have a shell extension now, right-click and browse the files you want restored, but I've never used that. It does appear to be as easy as you could want though.

So I recommend Mozy - its free so there's no problem if you want to try it out, and once you've proved to yourself that restore works its better than not having backups at all. (and, shameless self-promotion, if anyone wants to just try it please use this link as they'll give me a bit more storage space, not that I've used the quote I already have but I like the principle of free stuff :)

I currently use Mozy for my backup. http://www.mozy.com/ You get unlimited storage for the same cost as their mid level storage. About $50 a year. The only problem with Mozy is that it only works with PC or MAC no linux. But that is okay for most users. I can see that the future of online storage being very viable but it comes down to the cost. That is what the main problem is with today. Along with of course slow upload speed with many high speed internet connections.

I have my mom using http://mozy.com/ for her backup. It's free for 2GB storage or unlimited for $5/mo. The client is only for Windows, but they have a beta version of the Mac client out.

not quite (well, not unless you get yourself a hosting account with ssh access and run rsync yourself), but there is mozy.com which is very similar (if you do go mozy, please use my referral link). It's a backup service really but it sends changes over the net periodically, and has a web interface to restore files. Everything is encrypted and you can specify your own key.

If you do go the rsync-yourself route, try BackupPC which is a web frontend to a rsync server, you can get your files from it over the web too then.

Notice the (relatively) open disclosure:

And the mozy whoring part:

Try it out

I don't know anything else about mozy, I did say I was a customer, and I think the product is relevant, but you're for damn sure that I'm enjoying the 5 people who signed up giving me an extra +256 mb per person.

And you're right, not having to do anything but post a link to a relevant / interesting place and getting space for my files from it, most definately priceless.

I don't work for Mozy or know anything else about them;

https://mozy.com/ ?ref=UPYJ5F

Free slashdot refering: Priceless

Forget the DVD's, use your broadband connection and an online backup provider like Mozy https://mozy.com/?code=2APNT1/ . I like mozy because it is free for 2mb and 30gb costs only 4.95/mo. By the time you deal with swapping blank DVD's and pay for blanks the cost is about the same. Full Disclosure, I do not work for Mozy, I saw a review in PC Magazine that rated them quite high so I thought I would try them out. The above link is a referral link. For those of you who don't like that, edit the URL.

I use Mozy. It's free, works well, does it's stuff in the background. They have paid options too for more space if you need it...cheap and easy and doesn't seem to get in my way.

I don't work for Mozy or know anything else about them; I was sent to the site and started using it and it seems to work.

From their site:

Mozy Plus
Got lots of stuff to backup? Mozy Plus lets you backup more of your photos, music files, and other important documents.
30GB - $4.95/month

Mozy Free
2 GB of 100% free backup space.

And the mozy whoring part:

Try it out

I use Mozy. It's free, works well, does it's stuff in the background. They have paid options too for more space if you need it...cheap and easy and doesn't seem to get in my way.

I don't work for Mozy or know anything else about them; I was sent to the site and started using it and it seems to work.

From their site:

Mozy Plus
Got lots of stuff to backup? Mozy Plus lets you backup more of your photos, music files, and other important documents.
30GB - $4.95/month

Mozy Free
2 GB of 100% free backup space.

And the mozy whoring part:

Try it out

Our IT department actually found one through TIDF. They found the "best fit" for us for free, and quoted us a price that was slighly higher than the one found on the website. So out IT guys got the name from TIDF then went to the other firm, told them they were referred by TIDF and signed up. (It was net mass btw - it is pretty pricey, but the support is great and we don't back up much data).

Me? I've only personally used mozy and while I liked it, it fails your requirement of linux compatibility (which is why I dumped it for my own little homebrew NAS). There is a lot of advice all over the internet listing online back up souces, but make sure you personally know the referrer before you trust them with your backup source (i.e. don't trust me).

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Mozy. Ok, they only support Windows for now but they have a MacOS X and probably a Linux client coming soon. Mozy offers 2GB free or 30GB for $5/month. Here is my shameless plug with my referral code: https://mozy.com/?code=KXYE5N. This will give you an extra 256MB of free space. If you don't want to use my link, just go to mozy.com.
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That depends - if you perform incremental backups then 15 minutes of more than feasible. Try BackupPc for a easy-to-use rsync solution with a web front end for restores. I'm not sure about the encrypted bit though, but it can copy over a SSH tunnel.

Alternatively, try Mozy for 2 gig of free online encrypted backups with individual file restores. (yes, someone hosts it and they expect you to pay for more storage space, but its useful for your important stuff at least)

Government should sign up on Mozy. They offer 2 GB secure data storage for free and 30 GB for $4.95. :D Here's the link: https://mozy.com/?ref=SV4DVI Problem solved. Next...

..Or automate the processs with a wonderful service such as Mozy. http://mozy.com/