Detailed Review of Mozy 2.0 Online Backup Solution
Detailed Review of Mozy 2.0 Online Backup Solution
Company Details
MozyPro Backup is the brainchild of the Decho Corporation which is a totally owned subsidiary of the EMC2 Corporation, a fortune 500 company. Decho was founded in 2005. They currently own offices in Seattle, Washington with offices in Pleasant Grove, Utah; London, England; Shanghai, China; Montreal, Canada; and Bangalore, India. Mozy currently has over one million customers and over 50,000 businesses, maintaining a total of at least 25 petabytes of data - that's 25 thousand terabytes or 25 million gigabytes!
Features
Security Features
MozyPro is a very secure online backup package. All traffic to and from the Mozy servers is encrypted with 128bit SSL encryption which is the internet standard. Once on the servers your files are encrypted with either 448bit Blowfish technology or your own 256bit AES private key encryption. There is currently nothing better than this outside of the military. As for server security, the data centers deploy continual on-site monitoring and security, state-of-the-art fire detection and suppression power distribution and seismic safeguards that can defend a 7.5 magnitude earthquake.
Backup Options
Mozy provides block level incremental online backups and can be organized to backup either on a schedule or constantly in the background. In our tests, it took under 30 minutes to backup tow gigabytes of data on a normal 8mbps DSL connection uploading and downloading different data. Also, because of the block level nature of Mozy's backup application, open or locked files can be backed up easily. A progress indicator is accessible if you click on the icon in the system tray. Initially Mozy Online Backup adds all the current user's profile files such as documents, music, videos, etc. However, it is a simple task to add or remove folders and files to/from the backup profile. The Home editions do not provide backup of network drives although the Pro and Enterprise editions do. None of the packages permit backup of removable media. The commercial editions - MozyPro and MozyEnterprise - let online backup solutions to manage Exchange server, SQL server and LDAP directories such as Active Directory and Lotus Notes.
Restore Features
File restore is by request through the web portal, the desktop app or by right-clicking in a folder and selecting restore. After a restore is requested, MozyPro packages all the files requested into a zip file and sends an email to you when the restore is ready for recovering. File versioning is active on all backed up media, so you can opt to restore an previous variation of any file you have backed up. Files can be restored to their initial location or to any location of your choosing.
Control and Analysis
MozyPro Online Backup accomodates your needs by allowing you to check how much CPU and bandwidth are accessible to the system. These can be easily tuned from the desktop application. Proxy servers are also allowed and Mozy can be optimized to use these via the desktop application. All activity that Mozy carries out is logged and can be examined either from the desktop application or via the web portal.
Interface
MozyPro shows a great deal of information and allows centralized configuration and logging which is ideal when managing backups on PCs and laptops that may not even be in the same country!. Multiple accounts can be setup as well as multiple devices. A more controlled interface is provided with MozyHome.
Device Support
Currently Mozy Online Backup only supports backup of MAC and PC clients. In addition MozyPro backs up MAC And PC servers.
Limitations:
MozyHome cannot be used commercially.
The basic free account is limited to 2Gb of storage although this can be extended by getting other people to enrole. For every added signup you get an additional 250Mb of storage.
There are no limits set on the size or type of individual files.
There are also no limits on the quantity of data backed up or restored.
Mozy free allows backup of 2 devices under 1 user account; MozyHome allows upto 5 devices but each additional device will cost $4.95 per month per device.
Both MozyPro and MozyEnterprise permit limitless devices and users but there is a cost for each device.
File retention - the amount of time a file remains available for restore after it has been 'deleted' - is 30 days for all account types.
File Sharing and Collaboration
MozyPro is not a file sharing or collaboration tool. It is a backup system. That being said, it does support sign-in, sign-out and multiple levels of security to an individual file level.
Synchronization
You can synchronize many devices.
Web 2.0 Integration
Mozy does not provide social networking integration.
Customer Support
Mozy's customer support is commonsense: They give excellent user guides, complete FAQs and a knowledgebase. There is also a blog and loads of testimonials and case studies on their website. Email support is available to all types of accounts, however, telephone support is only available to MozyPro and MozyEnterprise users and live chat is not accessible to free users.
Ease of Use
MozyHome is very easy to use. You can go from signup to backup in under 5 minutes and it really is a 'set it and forget it' method. MozyPro has a slightly slower learning curve but this is to be expected since it provides much more features.
Conclusion
If you are looking for a trustworthy, set-it-and-forget-it answer that does not cost too much, will increase or shrink to adapt to your situation and is simple to change then Mozy Online Backup is your perfect solution. If you are looking to backup huge amounts of information that changes on a daily basis then there are different and cheaper solutions available. Detailed Review of DropBox Online Storage Solution Consumers Online Credit Reports and Credit Scores From All 3 Bureaus Free Credit Score Report Online - Get the Score That Lenders Use Most Good Reasons To Get Online Relationship Advice Government Free Credit Score Report - Federal Trade Commission's Information Grow your Online Income and Stay on Top of the Competition Simple Yet Effective Ways to Grow your Online Income You And Tv Online Easy and Effective Tips on How to Grow Your Online Income How To Buy Hair Products Online Online Hypnotherapy Degree For Career Shifters Free Online Paid Surveys and Paypal Payments Choosing your Online Course!