Online data backup

Old news: your hard drive will fail.

6% of all PCs will suffer an episode of data loss in any given year. 1 in 10 hard drives fail yeach year. Hard drives really hate coffee and soda spills and they don't appreciate being accidentally kicked under the desk.

Do you want  your bookmarks, documents, pictures to vanish forever in a blink of an eye?

Especially when so many super simple high tech backup solutions are out there, most of them giving away FREE gigabytes of storage for home users?

I believe not, too. So check out these solid companies and choose a backup solution which is right for you!

Mozy Home Review

MozyHome Free

Holidays Promotion: Sign-up for MozyHome free from today 'till January 10th 2010, backup your data and get an extra 512 MB of backup space! Read more about MozyHome below:

MozyHome is a free online backup service for any PC or Mac, providing 2GB of storage FREE of charge for home users.

Mozy is one of the most popular online backup service for consumers and businesses, managing more than 10 petabytes (10 million gigabytes) of information across multiple data centers.

The files on your computer are backed up on Mozy's servers via a backup program downloaded from Mozy's website after you create an account. After installation you can select or create new backup sets which include the files and directories you want to back up, then these files will be sent encrypted to Mozy's storage arrays either when you do a manual backup or at a scheduled time.

MozyHome Unlimited

MozyHome Unlimited is exactly what it's saying, unlimited storage for $4.95/mo. If you pay yearly, you got 1 month free. If you choose to pay for two years you get 3 months free!!!

MozyPro

For companies MozyPro offers a reliable offsite backup solution that works. Mozy servers are located in several world-class data centers across the globe. Each data center adheres to the highest standards of security for optimal data protection.Read more >>

Website backup

Do you want to backup your site and/or database? Check out this guide!

This is one of the ways I use Mozy backup. I've been meaning to write this for a long time, but never got the chance. You need to be familiar with ftp, cpanel, a bit of scripting, but it's not hard at all, google knows everything :-) And make sure you don't run out of space on your web account.

The backup process has 2 parts:

  1. on your server
  2. on your PC

First create an ftp account and give as home a directory outside the public_html. Asuming you're using cpanel it will look something like this:Read more >>

DriveHQ review

DriveHQ is a major player in the online backup industry. The basic service is free, 1 GB of storage included, you can backup many version of a file and restore any of them.
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