I had a question about MozyPro today so gave tech support a ring. Brian answered my initial questions quickly and easily. I also inquired into when or if they were going to develop a way to pre-populate media locally which would then be mailed to them before the initial online sync ... which can take weeks depending on how much data you want to backup.
He said that is huge in their development pipeline right now ... but couldn't give an ETA.
If Mozy can pull this off at a great pricepoint, they will have IMHO (at least for now) the killer online backup solution. Load up my backup data onto disk locally, ship the disk back to Mozy, forget the really long initial upload and begin sync'ing block changes right away ... all for $.45/GB per month!
It's still not a replacement (yet) for D2D nor tape for long term archival, but this is a great offsite DR solution.
Yo JP! Before we start uploading gigs of data online with Mozy, I say we get rid of duplicate files... check out our latest blog entry (andy.typepad.com) after we evaluated a few duplicate file finding utilities... let me know if anyone else has something better.
Posted by: Andy Sharpe | June 23, 2007 at 01:09 AM