Coder’s Eye

I’m pleased to say that I am still quite happy with my choice in online backup services after two weeks. I chose to use Mozy and it has simply been invisible since then.

Actually, invisible isn’t the right description, that would imply I couldn’t see it even if I wanted to. But since I can, I just don’t have to think about it. At any time, I can use a menu bar icon on the top of the screen to see how long since my last backup, and if a backup is completed while I am looking at the screen, I occasionally catch a Growl notification. I didn’t even realize Mozy had a growl notifier, but that’s how unobtrusive things are supposed to work!

So far, I am only using the free 6 gig storage space, because for the time being I am stuck with stinky Comcast cablemodem upload speeds of <128K. That’s just not going to cut it for keeping many gigs in sync. However, this week I am getting Qwest FIOS installed in the office, which should have a much beefier and guaranteed upload speed of 1024K. I’m planning to upgrade to a paid Mozy account at that point. $5/mo is a great deal for software that seems to work exactly like I want good software to work.

Yes, I still use SuperDuper to make external drive backups on a regular basis. I used to think that was the epitome of easy flexibility, but Mozy makes it seem awkward.

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