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Data Backup - Business Contingency, Do it Online with Mozy

Data Backup and the Benefits of an Online Solution

Data Backup is very important to business, loss of business critical data can set back business many weeks to recreate customer information databases, websites, accounts, invoices, emails, orders and many never recover and go out of business completely. Business are strongly advised to review their business contingency plans and take action to remedy weaknesses.

Data loss can be caused by many situations, disc failure, flood, fire, vandalism and theft (ever had a PC stolen?). Many of these situations may result in both the primary data and the backup if performed and stored onsite may lead to total data destruction.

Even home users have important data to the family these days, although potential recoverable via friends and family, photographs, accounts music and family tree data are all valuable to some extent.

That's were online data backup over the Internet to securely hosted computer / data centres should be considered.

The software provided quietly works in the background on one's PC checking daily what files have changed and backs them up at daily or regular intervals. There is no program to run that be be forgotten, no discs or tapes to insert and no media for someone to forget to take off site.

Mozy is the preferred online backup choice by Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal and Christopher Null of Yahoo! Tech. The winner of PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award, Mozy is secure, feature-rich, and competitively priced.

Consumers may sign up for 2 GB free with the MozyHome Free plan, or select larger 50 GB or 125 GB plans starting at $5.95/month. Business backup is available via MozyPro with customisable licenses and storage space. Both MozyHome and MozyPro provide unlimited restores via the web and the Mozy software, with available DVD restores mobile apps for iOS or Android operating systems to access backed up files.

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Mozy Online Backup Features:
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• Open/locked file support
• 448-bit Blowfish encryption
• 128-bit SSL encryption
• Automatic or scheduled backups
• New and changed file detection
• Block level incremental backups
• Bandwidth throttling
• File versioning (Recover previous versions of changed files)
• Public or private key encryption
• Users can now access their backed up files on their iOS and Android devices!

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  Mozy Online Backup Pricing
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  Mozy Free - 2 GB of secure, automatic online backup for free for Home Users

  MozyHome – 50GB and 125GB plans, secure, automatic online backup starting at £4.95 a month, discounts for 1 and 2 year plans