Data Backups

My friend Chris put up a post yesterday about failing hard drives in 2007. I had a similar problem in 2007, only with a non-backed up primary drive. I almost lost all of my music to this drive failure, and ended up paying a lot of money to have the data recovered from the broken drive.

I know what you are going to say, that I should have been backing up, and you were right. I had gotten into a situation where I had outgrown my old drives and replaced it with a 1TB primary storage drive. I had been waiting a few months to buy the second backup 1TB drive, and that was when the first one failed.

Anyway, I got my data back, bought a new computer with 3TB of internal storage and used the replacement 1TB drive as the current backup (I'm at about 900GB of data). So backup is an incredibly pain for me right now.

In his post, Chris mentions online backup firm Mozy. I took a look at their services and was really surprised to find that they offered unlimited online storage for about $5 per computer per month. They also advertise Mac OS X support in beta, so I signed up right away.

At the end of the sign up process, I found that the link for their Mac client results in a 404. I sent an email to their support folks to find out what is going on, but needless to say I'm not left with a warm fuzzy feeling about them.

I'll post more when they get back to me, but if you were thinking about Mozy for Mac backups, I would say wait because their client is AWOL.