Two years ago my husband\u2019s computer crashed.\u00a0 Needless to say, he lost many files.\u00a0 Yet, this is not to say that he wasn\u2019t backing up his files regularly.\u00a0 That\u2019s the calamity of a computer crashing, you can be \u201cgood\u201d and back-up regularly, yet if the computer crashes between those times, you\u2019ll lose files \u2013maybe not a lot, but it can still be an important one.\u00a0 This happens with any computer, since at the time, his computer was relatively new.\u00a0 This continues to stay with me, even fueling my concern about protecting my own data.<\/p>\n
I use multiple tools for backing up my electronic data, at varying intervals \u2013 from the external hard drive that lives in the safe and I end up pulling it out a few times a year to the DVD+RW disks I aim to use once a month.\u00a0 Notice I said \u201caim\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m not always as consistent as I want to be since it\u2019s time consuming.\u00a0 I talked about Dropbox<\/a> last month and I do use that, but it only holds so much and I\u2019m too frugal to pay for more!<\/p>\n That\u2019s where Mozy<\/a> comes in.\u00a0 Mozy is designed as a file back-up service where you can choose the specific files you want backed up as well as the frequency at which you want it to back those files up.\u00a0 I appreciate that there\u2019s a free version for 2GB<\/a>, though I do find their prices to be quite reasonable for more space.\u00a0 They work with Mac or PC and their website says they\u2019ve got high-grade encryption.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve been using Mozy long enough that I\u2019m using the second version.\u00a0 I\u2019m grateful that there\u2019s been some improvements as I\u2019d had some trouble with parts of Mozy before this.\u00a0 Despite how inevitable change is<\/a>, I still sometimes resist that very change.\u00a0 There\u2019s features I miss from the old version though too.<\/p>\n Choosing the files to have Mozy back up is easy.\u00a0 For me, the files I choose are the ones that change most frequently.\u00a0 Remember how if the computer crashes between back-ups, you\u2019ve lost that information, well, I selected files that I would hate to lose and those I am modifying.\u00a0 One of those things is my e-mail.<\/p>\n