How much data do you have backed up with Carbonite or Mozy?

[Miramonti]

With these unlimited storage services, how much are you actually backing up?

(As a sidenote question...what upload/download speeds you get using them?)

 

[RebateMonger]

I have access to Mozy Pro and Carbonite accounts. In both cases, there's about 20 GB of business data being backed up. I believe it took about three days in both cases to complete the first backup, but I don't have the exact number or the actual speeds.

 

[ianbnet]

I use Mozy Home for my personal backup.... I have about 119GB backed up, mostly photos (all my RAW keepers). Initial backup took literally months, but the bandwidth constraint was on my end -- best I can do is 1mbps upstream.

Typical differential backup now, just for new items, takes only a few hours and I don't even notice it happening. I love Mozy!

I have used it for a full data restore once. Unfortunately, I did at the time lose some big Outlook .pst files; they apparently never did get backed up, possibly because they were >5GB each. That sucked.

 

[imported_NoGodForMe]

252 gigs of 450 on my Dreamhost web account.
I uploaded all my pictures, music, and other directories manually using FTP. Took me 6 months, upload speed on Bellsouth is only 50K or less than 1 meg. And the biggest file I can upload is about 200 meg. Anything bigger and the FTP times out. The only thing I can't upload are huge AVI movies shot from the Canon camera, but I've saved them on DVDs.

I've got 10 years of digital pictures, all my music, word documents, quicken data, everything I'd want if the hard drive crashed. I use the web for e-mail, let my ISP store archived messages.

 

[corkyg]

None. What happens when they go belly up? I find cloned HDDs faster and more reliable.

 

[Arsynic]

About 14 GB with Mozy. Most of it is my music collection.

 

[Arsynic]

None. What happens when they go belly up? I find cloned HDDs faster and more reliable.

Mozy is owned by EMC which owns VMWare. When EMC dies, Microsoft, Apple and the Internet dies. When that happens we probably have bigger problems to deal with.

 

[RebateMonger]

None. What happens when they go belly up? I find cloned HDDs faster and more reliable.

I consider online backup like Mozy or Carbonite to be secondary backup. Any data that can reasonably be uploaded to online backup is small enough that it'll fit on a local $100 1 TB backup drive.

 

[yinan]

Does Mozy have any content restrictions?

 

[imported_NoGodForMe]

Online backup is another safety net. Everyone reading this should have all their important stuff in more than one place.

Multiple computers, external hard drives, DVDs, Tapes, offsite.

 

[yinan]

Damn the pro version of Mozy is expensive. $500 a month per TB.