Getting both backup and sync in one package is nice, and shows that the company understands the target audience. Mozy is a venerable and highly reliable and secure online backup service that worked quite well in our hands-on.
You can purchase or upgrade Mozy using the local client. Backblaze it isn’t, but Mozy is competitive cost-wise if your data set is relatively tame.
Beyond that, you’ll pay $6 a month for 50GB of storage, while the best deal for most users is likely the 125GB plan for three computers at $10 a month. Don’t scoff: That’s probably enough to back up your most important documents. Unnecessary redundancy certainly isn’t a fatal flaw, simply indicative of how the two services could be meshed better. And if you right-click on Mozy’s Sync folder (Users/”Username”/Mozy Sync) you’re actually afforded the option to include it in the Mozy Backup. For instance, there’s no quick access icon for the sync location, as you’ll get with DropBox and the like. Mozy Backup and Mozy Sync are downloaded and installed separately, and while both are easy to use, they could integrate better with the operating system-and each other. However, if you are storing stuff elsewhere, you should know its whereabouts. Mozy Backup does a good job of automatically corralling the the files you’ll want to back up-pretty much everything in the user folders, such as My Documents.
Clients are provided for Windows, OS X, and Linux (Pro only), as well as Android and iOS. It’s not as versatile overall as iDrive, but it does cover the two most important roles. Probably the nicest thing about Mozy is that it both backs up and provides the sync folder functionality that you get with Google, OneDrive, Dropbox, and the like. Go to those stories for information on competing products and buying advice. Users of the former Mozy product (an online data backup service which allows users to back up their hard drive and, in the event of a computer catastrophe.
Note: This review is part of our ongoing roundups of the best free backup software/services and the best Windows backup software. Check out its competition in our comprehensive online backup roundup. Times have changed and data sets have ballooned, but with Dell EMC behind it, Mozy is still one of the most confidence-inspiring online backup services available. After all, it was the online backup service the pretty much got the ball rolling with 2GB of free storage-back when 2GB covered most people’s needs. Just fill out the form below and we’ll send you the reminder.Reviewing Mozy again after almost a decade is like coming home. If you’d like, we can send an email one month before your renewal, reminding you that it might be coming up, and that it would be a great time to try Backblaze. You can compare some of Carbonite’s plans against Backblaze on our comparison chart. While Carbonite does have promotional pricing for existing Mozy customers, that pricing will expire after your first renewal and subsequent charges will be at regular Carbonite rates ( Carbonite Billing FAQ). Now is the perfect time to switch to Backblaze, where you’ll be able to back up more data, more quickly, and less expensively. If you’re concerned about the time it will take to complete a new backup with Carbonite, Backblaze has recently made our service much faster with the release of Backblaze Computer Backup v6.0. It takes less than 5 minutes to get started and once installed, Backblaze will automatically start backing up your computer - no credit card is required until you decide to buy a license.Īs part of the transition from Mozy to Carbonite, Mozy customers will need to reupload all of their data to Carbonite.
We invite to take a free trial of Backblaze. If you’ve been using Mozy and are unsure about the transition to Carbonite, we invite you to take a look at our comparison page to see how Backblaze stacks up against the cloud backup competition. Much like after CrashPlan exited the consumer space, we’d like to reaffirm our commitment to simple, inexpensive, and unlimited cloud backup for businesses and consumers. When Backblaze burst onto the scene in 2008, Mozy and CrashPlan (also no longer offering a consumer service) were some of our most formidable peers in the online backup space. We’re always sad to see a competitor exit the marketplace.
One year later, we’ve seen reports that Mozy users will be forced to update to the Carbonite service. Around this time last year, we all learned that Carbonite was acquiring Mozy from Dell Inc.