How To Get Your Files Back After Lightning Wipes Out Your Computer

Will MyPCBackup Backup All Of My Computer In 3 or 4 Clicks?

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All Of Your Data Gone In A Flash

I just received this email from a guy who normally offers website services. It tells the tale of how lightning killed his computer and destroyed all of his data, yet thanks to MyPCBackup, everything was restored.

Frankly, I am doubtful the story is literally true. Maybe the essence of it, but not the details.

Don’t misunderstand what I say below, lightning is a real threat to your computer and you should have a good quality surge protector (I usually use APC). But a strong lightning strike can blow right through that surge protector.

My goal is not to dis the author of this email (who shall remain anonymous) but to instead educate you as to the real capabilities of an online backup service like MyPCBackup.

Here’s a slightly edited version of the email:

10 days ago my dog (Rover*) and I were in my home office.

Suddenly, without warning, there was a blinding flash of lightening and extremely loud thunder, virtually at the same time. It was so close you could actually smell the ozone in the air.

Rover jumped into my lap whimpering and my heart was beating out of my chest. Then a few seconds later it happened again. And I ducked under my desk. Literally! I didn’t even have time to shut down my computer. And sure enough the power failed and stayed out for about 6 hours. It came back after we were already in bed.

The next morning when I woke up, I turned on the computer and the darn thing wouldn’t come on. My entire business records, family pictures, over 9000 articles, videos, passwords, thousands of dollars of software were gone in a flash of lightening and a boom of thunder.

Oh Crap!

At least that’s what I thought for a few minutes anyway. I forgot I had everything backed up thanks to one of my clients, Joe Smith*. He had sent me a link that enabled me to backup every single thing that I had on my computer.

You know exactly what I’m talking about: 100s of pictures of grand-kids, great grand-kids and the rest of my family, over 9 thousand of my [business] articles, backups of all of my blogs, business records, you name it; I was able to retrieve every bit of it with just a few clicks of my mouse.

I’m just so grateful to Joe for sending me that link. Because I had every thing back and working within about 13 hours after I thought i had lost everything.

And the only reason it took that long, I had to buy a new computer. (Editors Note: Really? You must have AWESOME download speed internet!)

I’m sure you can imagine the relief my wife and I felt when we saw all those pictures of the kids and grand babies floating across our computer screen again.

I’m a little slow on the up take, so please forgive me for not sending you the link before today. Because you and I both know if it can happen to me it can happen to you. And I don’t want you or anyone else I know to experience the heartbreak when my wife and I thought all the pictures were gone forever.

Don’t leave yourself unprotected, like I was before Joe sent me the link to automatically backup everything I had on my computer hard drive. My wife and I want you to please take a few minutes and protect every precious memory and file you have on your computer right now, click here.

Seriously, it will only take you about 3 or 4 clicks of your mouse and you can immediately protect everything on your computer. (Editors Note: Hold on, now, let’s be honest!)

And just for your information there is a limited free version that you can use for a trial period. However, my wife and I wanted to make sure we got every picture and every file backed up, so we went with the 2 year backup plan and saved a bunch of money. Don’t put this off, because, if you do, you will do what I did and leave yourself and your precious memories exposed to power spikes and bolts of lightening.

[* Name changed to protect the innocent]

Don’t get me wrong, I highly recommend you click the link above and get your data protected. But I want you to know the whole truth, not just have you buy a product that earns us a commission like the email above was designed to do.

The Truth About Online Backup And Lightning Damage to Your Computer

Let’s go through this one item at a time:

  1. First, in my almost 3 decades of computer experience I have seen lightning damage only a handful of times, once it hit our home and office and did massive damage. But, it’s never destroyed a hard drive. Computer yes, but pop the hard drive into another PC or access your data with a Vantec USB hard drive adapter and retrieve it. Not saying it can’t happen or not to protect yourself, but that’s my experience.
  2. MyPCBackup is like most online backup programs in that it only, by default, backs up what it thinks are data files, usually located in My Documents. I have a video on this here. If you want to backup other areas of your hard drive you will have to manually configure it to do so and it will take more than 3 or 4 clicks.
  3. No online backup program is going to backup software installed, or even your Windows installation. If you buy an IDENTICAL computer, a backup software like Acronis or even Windows 7 image backup can create an absolute “clone” copy of your hard drive that can be restored to a new PC, but otherwise, software would need to be INSTALLED on the person above’s new computer from original disks. The only way MyPCBackup is going to save thousands of dollars of software is if you have the all important REGISTRATION KEY – to some very expensive software that MOST of you don’t have on your PC (who owns thousands of dollars of software unless you own multiple Adobe suites or Engineering software and you saved NONE of the original disks) – that may be saved in a text file in a data directory that MyPCBackup is backing up.
  4. All of these photos, videos, articles, business data, all restored in 13 hours; and that apparently included going to the store to buy a new computer? How fast is your internet download speed? Thousands of photos, VIDEOS!!! and other data, all downloaded (many gigabytes for sure) all in 13 hours? I’m just not believing that one. Some online backup services will send you your data on a USB drive or other media, but MyPCBackup is not one of them. Even that takes overnight shipping (~24 hours) and then a modicum of savvy to put it back in the right places on a brand new PC.
  5. Immediately protect everything on your computer – NOPE! Your internet download speed is almost surely faster than your upload speed. So if it takes 10 hours (3 hours to go buy the new PC) to restore your data then you can be sure it takes AT LEAST 20 hours to upload all of it to get you protected. In reality, if you have thosands of high resolution photos and VIDEOS!!! then it will take some time to get everything uploaded the first time.

The guy who sent this email is normally a good old boy, even older than me (he has grand kids, after all). What I find problematic in his email is that it is made to look like a friendly warning, “I’m passing along a favor to you” when in reality it’s a well crafted SALES letter.

OK, I’m in sales too, and I know sometimes the box looks a little shinier than the product inside really deserves. But this is your data we are talking about, remember? Irreplaceable pics of the grand kids and all.

So I don’t want you to be misled

When it comes to online backup, we do like MyPCBackup. But the limited free trial he mentions is REALLY limited. We have asked the company to change it, but as of now they have not.

Please, please do protect your precious data on your computer. But do so with both eyes wide open. MyPCBackup can be a good pick for lots of people, but if that does not meet your requirements or expectations don’t give up! Try Idrive or Mozy Home or one of the others we review on this site.

But please DO BACKUP!

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LaCie External Hard Drive Fails, Data Lost

All External Hard Drives Will Fail Eventually, Some Sooner

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Seagate FreeAgent is Quality - But Still Needs Backup!

I was just reading on a forum this morning about a member who had some files on a LaCie external hard drive that did not fit on his computer.

He was not too thrilled with LaCie at the moment because the drive has failed and since he had no current backup was wondering how to get the data off of it.

Hopefully, the data can be recovered, but there is no guarantee of that naturally.

While this particular computer user seems more savvy than many, it does appear that perhaps he has fallen into a thought trap that has snared many before him.

That is, just because an external hard drive is often used for backup does NOT mean that the external hard drive won’t fail itself and that the date on that external drive does not need to be protected with an online backup service.

In fact, the only thing different about protecting data on an external hard drive with online backup is that you need to make sure you choose an online backup service that SUPPORTS external hard drives. Not all do!

All external hard drives will fail eventually!

The hard drives in an external hard drive are often no better than the hard drive in your PC, unless you get a top quality external drive like the Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex. But even those hard drives can and do fail at some point, just USUALLY not as soon as other less expensive brands.

Yes, you do get what you pay for!

The cool thing about online backup is that often a free account is the same quality online backup as a paid account, just not as much storage.

IDrive is one service that we love and use because they support external hard drives, network drives and have all the other options you want.

IDrive is also generous with their free online backup account in that they offer you 5GB of space.

Protect ALL of your data and important files, including those on your external hard drive, with a quality online backup service like IDrive.

Get a free account at IDrive and start protecting your data

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All My Photos Lost Because Of No Computer Backup

Don’t Wait Until Your Hard Drive Crashes To Backup

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Do You Cherish Your Photos?

I was perusing a travel forum the other day and saw a post by a woman with a Mac wondering what was the best external hard drive to buy for computer backup.

It seems that she found out that even a Mac is vulnerable to failure and lost all of her photos when the hard drive crashed.

Unfortunately this is not the first time I have heard that story. People are losing cherished photos, memories, and other important data every day either because the idea of computer backup just doesn’t cross their mind or they don’t get around to it.

Until it’s too late.

And while she got some good advice about a good external hard drive for backup, no one had offered her the better option of dual backup: external hard drive AND cloud backup.

Mozy Home Offers 2X Backup (local and cloud)

Mozy online backup service has been around as long as most and often innovates. They have what they call 2X backup which lets you schedule a backup not only to their cloud servers online but also to a local device such as an external hard drive.

Both backup mediums have advantages.

The key, though, is to at least make sure you have a backup in case of hardware failure.

And as pointed out in this video from MacMost, even Mac hard drives will fail (they use the same hard drives as would go in a PC…). Once the drive fails, it’s too late. Either spend thousands of dollars on expensive data recovery which may or may not get back all of your precious photos and other data, or simply write off the loss and move forward painfully recreating what can be redone.

 

Take The Right Action Now

Don’t wait until it’s too late to protect the photos, videos, music and other data on your laptop or desktop computer.

Mozy Home is a good choice especially if you like the idea of local AND online backup – both scheduled to run automatically without you having to remember to do it.

Mozy offers a free 2GB account and an upgrade if you need more space.

Claim your free 2GB account at Mozy Home and get protected right now

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Google Drive Is A Tool But Not Online Backup

Google Drive Is Just Another Sync Folder

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Google Drive Home

Google Drive is new and we will give it a chance and cut it some slack in our upcoming complete Google Drive Review.

What you need to know for now is that Google Drive is really nothing more than a special sync folder much like the “give-me” feature in MyPCBackup.

So at this point Google Drive is a tool you can use but it is a far cry from online backup. (Note: Google is not pushing it as that, but many PC users are trying to compare it to a real online backup service like Mozy, we’ve received LOTS of questions.)

Some Initial Impressions Of Google Drive

When you install Google Drive, unless you take advanced setup, you get a new “Google Drive” directory in your “My Documents” folder in Windows.

What is in that folder is synced to your Google Drive, unless you select in the configuration to not have all folders in the drive synced.

Why you would do that I don’t know, it’s not like you can choose an existing folder to be your Google Drive on your PC, in which case that would be a VERY handy feature.

Google does not currently allow you to change the location of the folder once installed. You will need to uninstall and re-install if you change your mind.

It did let me choose a network location, but the program crashed every time I tried to run it. So I uninstalled. Will that work in the future? Who knows.

Any files on your computer that are NOT in the Google Drive sync folder will NOT be uploaded to your Google cloud drive.

Yes, you can upload separately, but not to store it there. The file will be synced back down to your PC.

And if your are not using Chrome, the “folder upload” feature does not work. Naturally Google wants you to use Chrome and please use if for everything, thank you very much. That’s probably in the “whatever” category.

Summarize Google Drive (for now)

  • Installation is fairly straightforward, choose advanced setup if you want to change location of the Google Drive “sync folder” or do not want Google Drive to start automatically with Windows.
  • The only way to “back up” a file to the cloud is to have it reside in the Google Drive folder. There is currently no way to backup other locations of your PC or network.
  • If something is not working right, there is not much you can change other than the account you connect to. Uninstall and re-install.
  • Google will want to “convert” files to Google Docs format when you upload. There is a checkbox option to turn this off. So if you enjoy using Office “lite” with limited features and the frustration of browser applications instead of using a “real” computer program like MS Office or OpenOffice, Google Drive may be quite handy for you.
  • There is a bit of a delay between when the desktop app (and the little file indicator) say that a file is synced and when it actually shows up in the home screen when you login to your account on the web. Don’t be alarmed, just give it a few minutes. This may get better in time.
  • If you delete a file from your Google Drive directory on your PC it will promptly be removed from your Google Drive active files list but you CAN find it in the “Trash” folder. Just don’t empty that trash until you know it’s safe to do so.
  • While this can be a handy feature, or “Tool”, it is hard to imagine paying for any extra storage at this point.
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Google Drive Preferences Configuration Screen

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Are Google Drive Terms Of Service Too Scary For You?

I Presume My Data Is Not Encrypted?

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What's Mine is Mine, What's Yours is Mine!

It was another twitter post sent to me that let me know I really needed to address the issue of Google terms of service with regard to Google Drive.

In short, kinda scary.

This is not new territory for us, we took the unusual if not unprecedented step of putting an avoid recommendation on another online backup service solely because of their terms of service.

Recently Google has done away with 60 different terms of service agreements, a separate one for each Google service, and replaced them with 1 consolidated policy.

“One policy, one Google experience”

While that might work really well for GMail (or not) and even YouTube, and maybe you didn’t think about it with Google Docs – or you just trust Google; it may not give everyone that warm fuzzy with regard to ALL of their PRIVATE data.

Do You Hear Captain Jack Sparrow?

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Captain Jack Sparrow

My one child especially was big into Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow character and one particular line from one “Pirates” movie:

“What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine!” – Captain Jack Sparrow

Pardon me if I say that Google’s terms of service brought that quote to mind.

Now I am not trying to say that Google will intentionally misappropriate your data, sell it to your competitors, or make your data part of their search engine results pages.

But if it happened accidentally, would you have any grounds for complaint? Just saying.

Is My Data Encrypted?

What I am saying is that before I would upload to Google Drive any data that I don’t want spread all over the web I would want to know that my data is encrypted, BEFORE it leaves my PC, preferably with an encryption key that ONLY I KNOW like:

  • IDrive (User Selectable Option)
  • Mozy (User Selectable Option)
  • SOS (User Selectable Option – “UltraSafe”)

Understand that the personal encryption key is not everyones choice, but everyone should care that their data is encrypted before being transmitted over the internet even if the transmission is SSL encrypted (128 bit SSL is far from foolproof).

Having your data encrypted means that an accidental leak, hack or exposure will not result in just anyone getting access to your personal photos, tax returns, secret formulas or whatever. If you use a personal encryption key, it means not even an employee with the online backup service can access it – so make sure you have a foolproof method of storing that key if you choose that option!

Google Drive Terms of Service

Lest you think we are making a mountain out of a mole hill or taking one paragraph out of context, here is where to find the entire Google Terms of Service (remember, “One policy, one Google experience!”).

Here is the relevant portion that we find too scary to allow us to store our data on Google Drive – for now. And I want to emphasize the “for now” part in case Google addresses this issue, offers appropriate encryption options, or otherwise addresses these concerns (Note: all emphasis is OURS):

Your Content in our Services

Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.

You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you.

Paragraph 1 makes us start to feel warm and fuzzy.

Paragraph 2 chills us to the bone.

Would they do it? I expect not – intentionally. Could they? If it’s not encrypted. Does Google Drive have “terms or settings” that narrow the scope of their use? Let’s hope so and hope they are turned ON by default and do not operate even REMOTELY like the Facebook privacy settings.

In fact, listening to the Q&A from Ben Silbermann’s address at Alt Summit (Ben is co-founder of Pinterest), Pinterest feels that privacy settings need to be limited to just 2 or 3 simple selections or people will be confused and give up. Yes, they heard the Facebook users.

Conclusion

Google Drive is new.

Google Drive will be widely used.

Google will hopefully clarify these terms going forward.

Make sure YOU are clear on Google Drive’s terms of service and encryption details before uploading your private data to it.

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Will Google Drive Crush All Online Backup Services?

Can Other Online Backup Vendors Compete Against Google?

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Will Google Drive Crush The Competition?

I just saw a Facebook post yesterday by a friend mentioning that Google has commoditized the online backup industry with the launch of Google Drive.

Google Drive is currently very new, so new that if you try to sign up they will tell you whether or not they have your account ready yet. If not, you can have them email you when it is.

Since Google Drive is so new, and the website says so little about the specific features, we can only guess at this point exactly what features they will offer.

Judging by the name and the short blurbs about what Google Drive will do for you, we can presume that perhaps Google Drive will do no more than act as an online drive for you. Nothing new here.

Free 5GB account? Nothing new here.

Integration with GMail and Google Docs? Well, for people who use those services, they may have something here. Sharing and emailing files has always been problematic as file size for pictures and videos either went beyond email provider limits or it just simply bogged down your internet connection.

This is all supposition for now, other than the free 5GB account. The site currently mentions (less than) $2.50 per month charge for an upgrade to 25GB. Surely this cannot be the end of it. Almost no paid service has a limit that low.

One feature I did note about Google Drive was up to 30 days of revisions with the option to choose a revision to save permanently.

Certainly, I would think, Google will add features as time goes by. And naturally with such limited information we cannot recommend or condemn the service.

Precedent for Commoditization

Will Google Drive be a game changer? Perhaps, but keep in mind that the advent of GMail did not shut down Yahoo Mail, Microsoft’s mail offerings and a slew of other lesser known free webmail providers.

Some people are distrustful of Google already and even use that as a reason not to use GMail. Will that keep many from using Google Drive? I suspect so but of course have no idea in what numbers or percentages.

Certainly we have seen this type of commoditization before when Microsoft launched their free Security Essentials anti-virus program. Now, traditional computer security firms are offering continual discounts – exacerbated by a poor economy, I imagine – and try to explain the value they add over the free offering from Microsoft.

The bottom line, though, is that Microsoft has undoubtedly affected the “bottom line” of those other computer security firms.

Is Online Backup A Commodity?

Currently, our answer is no.

Evidence that by the different approach we have here at OnlineBackupSpot than many other Online Backup Review websites. Others will tout a #1 program without distinction.

Here, though, we will tell you that we like a certain online backup service most for “unlimited online backup” or like another one most for “online backup smartphone integration“.

We clearly emphasize that when it comes to online backup there is NOT a ONE SIZE FITS ALL solution.

Can Google Inflict Pain On Other Online Backup Vendors?

Without question Google can inflict pain on other online backup vendors. Since they are the king of search, Google can inflict pain on pretty much anyone they want, if they want to, without bettering them in the marketplace. Would they do that? Not our place to judge.

What could come around, though, would be an anti-trust question from other online backup vendors who might try to suggest that Google will artificially direct online backup searches to their own product instead of competing vendors.

It could get murky.

How Other Online Backup Services Can Compete Against Google Drive

Simply put, other online backup services can compete against Google by doing what Google does not (yet) do and making sure the market knows it.

Some features Google Drive does not have (yet):

  • Unlimited Online Storage like MyPCBackup
  • Smartphone backup and integration like SugarSync
  • Support for local backup like Mozy
  • External drive backup and network drive backup like IDrive
  • Excellent business online backup features like Mozy Pro and SOS Online Backup
  • Continuous monitoring (and backup) of files like IDrive

Conclusion

In our opinion there will be at least some time for quality online backup services to compete against Google Drive, just like many brick and mortar companies can thrive in spite of WalMart.

Some of us here in the office will undoubtedly use Google Drive, too, at some level at least.

Once they get the service up and running we will write a full review. In the meantime, don’t be unprotected waiting for Google Drive. Pick an online backup service that best meets your needs and get started now.

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Mozy Protected My Data When My Laptop Hard Drive Failed

Hard Drive Failure Need Not Lead To Heart Failure With Mozy

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Blue Screen Of Death? No Problem With Mozy Protecting My Files

Most people panic when they see the dreaded Windows Blue Screen Of Death (BSOD), even computer people. And while it’s a definite inconvenience, it need not be tragedy if you have Mozy Home online backup protecting your files.

The thing about Mozy is that it backs up your files without you having to think about it or put it on your to-do list.

So when I turned to my laptop and saw the BSOD I naturally was not happy, yet I also remembered seeing the little pop-up balloon earlier that said “Mozy is backing up your files”.

The little balloon gets kind of annoying, but it can sure be comforting, especially after the fact when you are staring at a Windows blue screen of death.

Access Mozy Files On Your Smartphone

Even though I am one of about 10 people in the world who do not own an iPhone, I was able to grab my Android smartphone, open the Mozy App and immediately download the file I worked on most recently on that laptop and open it with QuickOffice Pro (that I picked up free one day) and everything was there.

Can you understand how comforting that is?

Most people have a heart attack when they see a BSOD, pick up the phone and call their computer guy (me) and scream for help!

While you still may well need your computer guy to fix your blue screen of death, you DON’T need your computer guy to get your files back!

Here is a screencast video I did showing how easy it is to restore your files from the Mozy Home website to ANY PC in the world. All you need is an internet connection and your Mozy login credentials (I mention the free LastPass cloud based password vault on the video)

Just because you get a blue screen of death does not mean your data is lost, as the blog post at PCRoger describes getting data off this very drive using the Vantec USB Hard Drive Adapter.

But that takes time, the USB adapter and another working PC.

It’s so much nicer to have instant access with a smartphone or tablet or just restore to any other computer you have access to.

Try out Mozy Home right now with a free 2GB online backup account

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Mozy Pro Changes Pricing To Allow Unlimited PC’s and Servers

Mozy Pro Now Even More Affordable

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Mozy Pro Now Offers Unlimited Devices for Same Price

While Mozy Pro has long been our top pick for business online backup, the pricing was a little more difficult to calculate and even pay for when you had lots of computers and especially multiple servers.

Thankfully, that has now changed as of April 9, 2012, for new customers.

Now in order to calculate the cost of Mozy Pro for protecting your business data with automatic backups to the cloud, all you need to know is how much storage you need and whether or not you are protecting any servers.

(A server is a computer running an actual server operating system, not just a PC that is utilized as a server.)

The price of Mozy Pro starts at $9.99 per month (cheaper if you sign up for 1 year or more) and that is for 10GB of storage and unlimited computers.

If you have more data to protect – and you likely do – then larger packages are available up into the terabyte ranges.

Adding an unlimited number of servers is as easy as adding a “Server Pass” to your account and that is now good for unlimited servers. The server pass also is priced according to the size of your backup package, starting at an extra $3.99 per month.

Here is a table showing how the new Mozy Pro unlimited device pricing works:

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Mozy Pro Now Offers Unlimited Computers and Servers For The Same Price!

We are happy to see this change in pricing at Mozy Pro

In the past some clients have tried to scrimp on cost by not backing up certain servers and instead using batch files or backing up via network shares. This is a potentially dangerous practice, though, since it can easily result in critical files not being backed up.

The only way to get open and locked file support, for instance, is to be protecting the actual server that the data resides on.

Start Mozy Pro protecting your business data right now, you are protected by a full 30 day money back guarantee.

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How To Share And Protect Wedding Photos

Digital Pics Are Easy To Share And Protect With Mozy

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Protect and Share Once In A Lifetime Photos

Wedding photos are something that are treasured for a lifetime – as long as you don’t lose them!

In a way, digital pictures are easier to lose than old fashioned prints if not properly stored and protected.

The good news is that you can protect your wedding photos AND make them easy to share all in one easy way – online backup to the cloud with Mozy Home.

I was just reading a story today on the Mozy blog about a couple recently married with a wedding photo cache of 7GB worth of pictures!

The task fell upon the new groom to both protect the photos from accidental loss due to hard drive failure but also to make online photo albums that his new bride could share with everyone when she traveled.

Fortunately for him, having those wedding photos backed up in the cloud made his tasks much easier, resulting in a happy bride. And a happy bride can help make a happy marriage!

If you have digital memories like wedding, baby or vacation pics that you simply CANNOT afford to lose and would like the convenience of being able to access them and share with others most anywhere, then a good online backup service with mobile support is your answer.

Learn more about how Mozy Home can make sharing and protecting your photos easy and fun

 

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Watch This Mozy Pro Data Shuttle Video

Initial Online Backup Done Fast and Easy

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Fast, Easy, 100% Initial Online Backup with Mozy Pro Data Shuttle

We announced last fall that Mozy Pro Data Shuttle service was live and ready to go for businesses (or individuals) with large amounts of data to backup.

The initial backup via external USB hard drive makes getting started with an online backup regimen simple, effortless and pain-free.

Yes, But Is It Secure?

Certainly one must wonder about security in putting all of your data on a convenient external USB hard drive and shipping it off.

Mozy Pro has it covered.

All of your data is encrypted as it goes onto the external data shuttle hard drive – using your own PRIVATE encryption key if you desire (no one at Mozy EVER would know that key) – and then encrypted again with a special key used only for the transit.

So, yes, your data is secure while being transferred to Mozy Pro’s servers via the data shuttle service.

How Does The Mozy Pro Data Shuttle Work?

Since we love using videos to explain how things work we thought it would make sense to offer this YouTube video that was done for the express purpose of explaining the Mozy Pro Data Shuttle service.

Watch this brief video see what an ideal service this is.

Pretty neat, huh?

We really like Mozy Pro’s online backup service for offsite business data backup and have used it for our clients.

Learn more about Mozy Pro here

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