Crazy enough, after I had experienced a personal harddrive crash, the ministry I work for lost our entire design server. All of our files were gone in an instant. Naturally we sent the disk to a recovery specialist. In the meantime, I was able to access some files that I had done on my personal machine and backed up to MOZY. Recovering those files were SOOOOO easy. I simply logged into my account, clicked a few buttons and had my files back.

Mozy is truly an awesome service. Since then I’ve actually got over 20 GBs of files and projects backed up through them and when I do something stupid (like saving over an important file!) it’s a breeze to go and simply download what I’m looking for.

I’ve included a link below for you to be able to check them out. Enjoy!

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Yep. It’s true. No matter how secure you feel your system is, chances are sooner or later, you will experience a hardware failure. I know. it recently happened to me. I had been using my laptop for nearly a year. It was the home of innumberable projects, client records and pertinent information.

Then it happened. I was sitting in a software training and my computer froze. I had been using Photoshop at the time, so I simply restarted the machine. My Adobe install had been giving me problems, so I thought it was nothing more than a software bug. Unfortunately, the machine never came back on. NEVER. At all. It was dead. No warning, no sirens, no blinking lights, just a dead Mac.

I thought I was safe. I thought I had everything "backed up." I had been intermittently copying my files to my ftp server. What I didn’t know was that the majority of those files had never fully transferred. So the folders were visible, but empty. I was devestated. A year of work had just been lost in a matter of minutes. The experts told me it would take hundreds or thousands of dollars to restore my files. I had no way to fund that so I had to retrieve my files the old fashioned way (I’ll give you tips on this later!)

The good news is that this experience hooked me up with a real viable solution for online backup that is actually AFFORDABLE and automatic! It really is as easy as it sounds! Mozy provides automatic backup services. Depending how much room you need they are free or have a small monthly fee.

Seriously! You will never regret it! I’ve actually since had the need to recover some files from their system. . . I’ll talk about that more in another post. It’s a breeze!

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