Have a nosey around Mozy
Have you heard about Mozy dot com?
Well, have a nosey around Mozy (click).
It offers 2GB of free online storage space. Wow, two gigabytes.
It’s easy to sign up to it, and it’s secure. You have to have a Broadband
connection and a modern Windows system (Win 2000-XP).
It was highly recommended by the FT’s IT correspondent, Paul Taylor, on
9 March. Installation and the initial back-up took me about 30 minutes, and
now Mozy backs up all my important files every hour or so (automatically and
quietly in the background).
It will back up your Outlook Express email site (email addresses and email
content), and your Favourites list on the internet (all of which we lost when
my wife’s laptop was hit by a virus).
There are online instructions on how to restore your info, if you were to lose
it, and you can specify the time from which you’d like to restore your info.
What could be in it for Mozy to be offering so much free space without any
adverts? Well I suppose they’re hoping that if you like it for home use, you’ll
sign up and pay for its business use.
Sounds good, doesn’t it?
