At last… geek-guilt has a saviour
If you will excuse the geeky nature of this post, I am writing with a purpose in mind so bear with me and I may do you a favour! One of the things that makes me feel guilty now and again is the fact I am rubbish at taking back-ups of my computer hard drive. I know I should do it, I know it’s pretty important but it just gets lost sometimes in the bigger scheme and besides it’s a hassle.
Guilt no longer, the solution has arrived in the form of Mozy. Mozy is a small application that you can install on your computer and while your computer is idle, it quietly backs-up your data so that you are always kept up-to-date. If you turn your computer off while it’s running, that’s fine, it just picks up where it left off when you turn on again. All your data is encrypted before being copied to the Mozy servers, so you don’t have to worry about other people stealing it! Best of all you get 2 Gb of space to store stuff free of charge! Brilliant.
The initial backup takes quite a long time but after that it only backs up files that have changed, so it’s very quick. I highly recommend it to you and would encourage you to sign up.
If you visit their site, please use the link I’ve provided above. If you sign up through me, we each get a bit of extra space (256 Mb to be precise) to play with.