6/3/2023 0 Comments Mozyhome review![]() ![]() You can add folders to the backup and exclude file types. In addition to online storage of backups, IDrive lets you mirror the system’s image on an external hard drive as well as back up Facebook items. Setting up a backup schedule in IDrive is easy. It not only lets you establish a cutoff time for long backups, but (optionally) sends you an email notification when it’s done. IDrive has a powerful scheduling function that lets you set up backups for the middle of the night. The app lets you throttle your upload speeds as well as schedule your daily backups. You can keep your own encryption key.ĭig deeply and you can set up continuous backups as well as image the entire machine onto an external drive. They’re all encrypted using the 256-bit AES cypher, but the service lacks Acronis’ blockchain technology to verify a backup file’s authenticity. The service can be set to back up every file. IDrive’s interface is a little busy, with redundant navigational cues that some may find annoying and others may find handy to get to various features. There’s also a page that lets you back up Exchange, SharePoint and other servers. IDrive’s busy interface has links on the left for Backup, Restore, Scheduler, Sync and Settings. ![]() The service’s 20.2MB Windows app can be downloaded and installed in three minutes. It’s free (including shipping) to use once a year. Within a day of when IDrive receives the drive, the files are typically online and ready. The company sends you a USB hard drive onto which you transfer up to 3TB of files, then ship back to IDrive. If your data provider meters your online use, IDrive can ease that first big backup with IDrive Express. There’s also a 5TB tier of IDrive Personal that’s $75 per year. That is just over half what Acronis charges, for twice as much storage. In my tests, I set up the lower tier for the IDrive Personal 1TB plan, which at the time cost $70 since then, however, this plan has doubled in size to 2TB while falling in price to $52 for a year. There’s a free Basic service that offers 5GB of storage space for those with limited backup needs. As with Acronis and Moby, you’ll need to pay for the online storage space, but IDrive is the least expensive backup service of the four services reviewed here, and if you have a lot of data, it can be a bargain. #1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.IDrive Personal will archive files from as many computers as you have.#1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives. #1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?ĭecho has announced new pricing for their well-known MozyHome backup service.#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX. Previously, MozyHome offered unlimited online storage for backups from a single computer for $4.95 per month. Under the new plans, users can choose between 50 GB of storage for backups from a single computer for $5.99 per month, or 125 GB of storage that can be shared by up to three computers for $9.99 per month. With either plan, additional computers, and additional 20 GB storage blocks, cost $2 each per month. Mozy’s announcement cites rapidly increasing storage needs (for example, high-definition video clips from iPhones) as the impetus for the change, while at the same time insisting that most of their individual users require no more than 50 GB of online backup storage anyway. The company also points out that for users with three or more computers, each of which has only a modest amount of data to back up, the new pricing could actually lower their costs. ![]() However, for most customers, Decho’s carefully crafted explanations are likely to ring hollow, as the bottom line will be that from now on, MozyHome costs more for less. Competing services wasted no time in exploiting this fact to attract those customers who will inevitably be tempted to switch. For example, Backblaze offers a 10 percent discount to switchers who use the coupon “byemozy,” while CrashPlan offers a 15 percent discount to Mozy switchers. Both Backblaze and CrashPlan continue to offer unlimited storage at costs lower than MozyHome’s new pricing-even without the special discounts. The revised MozyHome pricing goes into effect immediately for new customers.
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