Someone suggested in another thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166935) to try BackBlaze (http://www.backblaze.com/) - unlimited for $5 per computer -- the old Mozy model. Anyone have any experience?
Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
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Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#12Someone suggested in another thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166935 ) to try BackBlaze ( http://www.backblaze.com/ ) - unlimited for $5 per computer -- the old Mozy model. Anyone have any experience?
Crashplan (http://www.crashplan.com) also looks interesting and uses an annual payment model - $49.95 / yr for unlimited storage (less than $5 / mo).
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#13I was typing Dropbox, but realized their limit is 100 GB. Seriously though, for backup, nothign can compare to Dropbox. Continuously synced, no user input required, little resource consumption, and continuous versioning. I've heard they've planned to offer more than 100 GB, but all in all, I think its far superior to Mozy or other alternatives, which I've used. The peace of mind, knowing that my laptop can catch on f…
How does Dropbox secure their data? Most of the online backup co's use 448-bit Blowfish SSL encryption with a password to encrypt the private key
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#14Someone suggested in another thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166935 ) to try BackBlaze ( http://www.backblaze.com/ ) - unlimited for $5 per computer -- the old Mozy model. Anyone have any experience?
Here's a good review of backup options (note that it's a bit out of date given Mozy's price change): http://www.macworld.com/article/142606/2009/09/online_backup...
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#15I was typing Dropbox, but realized their limit is 100 GB. Seriously though, for backup, nothign can compare to Dropbox. Continuously synced, no user input required, little resource consumption, and continuous versioning. I've heard they've planned to offer more than 100 GB, but all in all, I think its far superior to Mozy or other alternatives, which I've used. The peace of mind, knowing that my laptop can catch on f…
How does Dropbox secure their data? Most of the online backup co's use 448-bit Blowfish SSL encryption with a password to encrypt the private key
Honestly, I don't know the answer to this. Their online access uses standard SSL, but the data uploading is unknown to me. Security comes second to convenience and reliability for me. Anything sensitive information, I'll encrypt locally myself, which in turn encrypts on Dropbox.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#16Someone suggested in another thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166935 ) to try BackBlaze ( http://www.backblaze.com/ ) - unlimited for $5 per computer -- the old Mozy model. Anyone have any experience?
I use Backblaze and have never had a problem. Stores versioned files for 30 days, is easy to retrieve, and is pretty cheap. The throttle control is nice as all the way up nearly cuts off Internet access for other users on some connections.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#17Diino is a good option. US$49 per year for unlimited back up.
Also, Diino are quite big and offer white label back up services to large companies like ISP's. This is good to note as it shows they'll be around for some time.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#18You might find this thread I started a few months ago to be valuable, it discussed a variety of different online backup tools at length:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1946416
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Other options, taken from there or elsewhere:
Carbonite (http://www.carbonite.com )
Crashplan (http://www.crashplan.com )
Backblaze (http://www.backblaze.com )
DropBox, Arq, others as mentioned already...
Hybir: https://www.hybir.com/
Amazon S3 (in conjunction with some services like http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/ or http://amanda.org/ or https://www.jungledisk.com/)
I didn't find a solution that matched my needs exactly when I found myself in your shoes, but at least there are a fair number of choices there!
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#19I use Backblaze for about 6 months now. The Mac and Windows client is light-weight, which is a huge plus. Unlimited space, and you can recover your files as a zip archive or they can send you a hard drive with your data.
I've tried restoring files without any problems.
Re: Ask HN: Best alternative to Mozy?
#20I switched from Mozy Pro to Jungle Disk about six months ago, and I like it.