{"id":915,"date":"2007-10-13T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/secure-online-backup-from-mozy.htm"},"modified":"2007-10-14T23:52:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T22:52:01","slug":"secure-online-backup-from-mozy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/secure-online-backup-from-mozy.htm","title":{"rendered":"Secure online backup from Mozy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/?ref=L8FPFL\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/mozy.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mozy logo\"\/><\/a>A few weeks back I was discussing backups with a couple of my colleagues.  I&#8217;ve commented before that, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/recovering-data-after-destroying-the-mac-os-x-partition-table.htm\">nearly losing all of my digital photos and my entire iTunes library<\/a>, I&#8217;m really bad at backing up my data (it&#8217;s spread across a load of PCs and I almost never have it in a consistent enough state to back up).  I had thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/products\/winfamily\/windowshomeserver\/\">Windows Home Server<\/a> would be my saviour, but Microsoft rejected my feedback requests for Mac and Linux client support so that won&#8217;t work for me.  Besides which, I should really keep an offsite copy of the really important stuff.  One of my colleagues suggested that I joined in a scheme he was setting up with remote transfers between friends (effectively a peer-to-peer network backup) but then another recommended <a href=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/?ref=L8FPFL\">Mozy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mozy?  What&#8217;s that?<\/p>\n<p>For those who haven&#8217;t heard of it (I hadn&#8217;t, but it does seem to be pretty well known), Mozy is an offline backup service from Berkeley Data Systems (who were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emc.com\/news\/emc_releases\/showRelease.jsp?id=5368\">purchased by EMC last week<\/a>).  Available as a free service with 2GB of storage (and an extra 256MB per referral &#8211; for both the referrer and the new customer &#8211; my referral code is L8FPFL if anyone would like to help out&#8230;), as a paid service with unlimited storage for $4.95 a month (per computer), or as a professional service for $3.95 a month (per computer) plus $0.50 per GB of storage, it seems there&#8217;s an option for everyone &#8211; although it is worth understanding <a href=\"http:\/\/mozy.com\/pro\/comparison\">the differences between Mozy Home and Mozy Pro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With clients support for most Windows versions (including Vista) and Mac OS X (still in beta), data is protected by the Mozy client application using 448-bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blowfish.html\">Blowfish encryption<\/a> (with a user-supplied key or one from Mozy) and then transferred to the Mozy servers over an HTTPS connection using 128-bit SSL.  Upload speeds are not fast on my ADSL connection and there is some impact on performance but I can still use the web whilst I&#8217;m uploading in the background (in fact I have a a backup taking place as I&#8217;m writing this post).  Also, once the first backup has taken place, Mozy only copies changed blocks so subsequent backups should be faster.  The only problem that I found (with the Mac client &#8211; I haven&#8217;t tried on Windows yet) was that it uses Spotlight searches when presenting backup sets so if you have recently had a big clearout (as I did before backing up), the size of each backup set may be out of date (<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=301562\">Apple support document 301562<\/a> offers some advice to force Spotlight to re-index a folder).<\/p>\n<p>I should highlight that backup is only half the story &#8211; the Mozy client has a simple interface for browsing files and selecting those that need to be restored.  There&#8217;s also a web interface with browsing based either on files or on backup sets and the <a href=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/support\">Mozy FAQ<\/a> suggests that Mozy can ship data for restoration using DVDs if required (for a fee).<\/p>\n<p>Whilst Mozy has received almost universal acclaim, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/defensive-computing\/8301-13554_1-9752330-33.html\">not everyone likes it<\/a>.  For me it&#8217;s perfect &#8211; an offline copy of my data but it doesn&#8217;t do versioning and it will assume that if I delete a file then after 30 days I won&#8217;t want it back.  I think that&#8217;s fair enough &#8211; if I have a catastrophic failure I generally know about it and can restore the files within that month.  As for versioning, why not have a local backup with whatever controls are considered necessary and use Mozy as the next tier in the backup model?  The final criticism is about Mozy&#8217;s potential to access files &#8211; that&#8217;s purely down to the choice of key.  Personally, I&#8217;m happy with the idea that they can (<em>in theory<\/em>) see the pictures of my kids and browse the music\/videos in my library &#8211; and if I wasn&#8217;t, then I could always use my own private key to encrypt the data.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that I&#8217;ll be moving to the paid MozyHome product soon but I wanted to try things out using MozyFree.  Based on what I&#8217;ve seen so far, using Mozy will be money well spent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks back I was discussing backups with a couple of my colleagues. 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