Here, it also depends on how critical your data is. Another thing to consider is the off-site storage of your backups. Tape loaders may change a bit your tape rotation strategy as well. This is a strategy you should think about, regardless of the platform / backup software you use or even the media you use. The monthly one is taken off the rotation, to be kept for a year, and so on. Some places I know of will have multiple dailies for two weeks, and one of them is kept for six months.

Regardless of the backup software you use, and the methods you use, you should also think on how you want to rotate your tapes or medias, like daily/weekly/monthly. I can't remember a single time I noticed my computer behaving slower or unreliable in anyway due to their software. Assuming of course that your internet connection has good upload speeds, their servers can keep up. Their integration with Windows is such that you can right-click on a file to gain access to those 'Previous Versions' and view/revert-to any one of them. Mozy offers a 'shadow copy' like function that saves the past 3 versions of every file backed up. Want to make sure all your Office Documents or photos are always backed up without having to remember to put them in any particular place? This is it. You give it a list of file extensions (file types) and it will automatically find and back them up anywhere they appear on your computer. IMHO the price is more than acceptable for the security and quality of service they provide.īackup Sets. I've been using them to backup over 100GB of data for the past few years. They also offer an Unlimited storage level for $4.95 a month. They have a free service level that offers up to 2GB of storage (you can increase that by recommending other users to the service using a referral code they provide).

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