Mozy announced public Beta today on Mozy Stash, it’s file syncing option that is available currently to MozyHome users. Stash allows you to sync files between any computers you have the Stash application installed on. Unlike Mozy Online Backup all updates for Stash are done immediately, not on a scheduled basis. Stash also allows you [...]

Three Fantastic Brands – One Great Company JustDevelopIt.com has been at it again… They have just released two new products into the online backup and storage space to compliment their existing MyPCBackup.com product. The two new products are JustCloud.com and ZipCloud.com. While JustCloud.com is similar in functionality to MyPCBackup.com, you will find ZipCloud has an [...]

In this video on CNN, Data Doctor Ken Colburn covers the top five common mistakes people make when backing up their data. Buying an external hard drive but not buying any backup software Installing backup software but not setting up the automatic scheduler Not verifying your backups Only having one copy of your data No [...]

One of the biggest issues any online backup faces, is the time it takes to complete the initial backup. Realistically backing up gigabytes of data to the cloud can take days if not weeks to complete! The good news though, is once the initial backup is completed, the incremental backups normally only take a few [...]

MyPcBackup: $4.95/mo Unlimited Mozy: $5.99/mo 50GB MyPCBackup or Mozy- Which Service is Best for Your Needs? In this article we will compare MyPCBackup to Mozy’s 50GB Home Plan. Both Mozy and MyPcBackup are extremely strong online backup providers and you can’t go wrong with either. There are a few major differences between them, however. One [...]

MyPcBackup: $5.95/mo (1 year contract) LiveDrive: $7.95/mo LiveDrive or MyPCBackup – Which Service is Better? In this article we will compare LiveDrive’s Basic Backup to MyPCBackup. LiveDrive and MyPCBackup both have their roots in the UK and started out as online storage providers in Europe. They are both now making a big splash in the [...]

MyPCBackup has eliminated their Home plan and dropped the price on their Unlimited plan from $7.95/month to $4.95/month! Unlike other "unlimited" plans from merchants like Carbonite or IDrive who actually put bandwidth throttling in place to limit the amount of data being uploaded at any given point in time, MyPCBackup does not do any bandwidth [...]

In a move earlier this month that completely contradicts Mozy’s move to discontinue unlimited backups, IDrive announced a new backup plan: IDrive Unlimited. For $49.50/year for 1 Windows computer users can backup as much data as they want. Ironic? Timely? Skilled Marketing? Well, we will let you decide that for yourself! Now there are a [...]

SugarSync: $14.99/mo 100 GB IDrive: $4.95/mo 150GB SugarSync or IDrive – How Do They Compare? Although SugarSync and IDrive appear to be similar in many ways there are some key differences between them. If you were to strictly take a look at price and a quick look at feature comparison you would think that IDrive [...]

There has been alot of talk the past few days about Mozy‘s change in pricing and their move away from unlimited storage to a tiered structure to go along with their new pricing. At first we were shocked by the change, but the more it sank in and we thought about it, the less of [...]

We all know that an online backup solution can be extremely effective at restoring that file or picture that we accidently deleted last week when we were doing a bit of “house-cleaning”. But what happens if, God forbid, we have a hard drive failure, someone steals our laptop, or some other horrible disaster comes to [...]

Carbonite: $54.95 per year Mozy: $65.89 per year Mozy or Carbonite – Which Service is Right for You? In this article we will compare Mozy Home to Carbonite. UPDATE: Mozy updated their pricing and plans today (February 1, 2011). This does change how we originally wrote this article. You will see our summary at the [...]

Carbonite: $54.95 per year SugarSync: $49.99 per year SugarSync or Carbonite – Which Service is Best for You? In this article we will compare SugarSync’s 30GB Service to Carbonite. Right off the bat you will notice a very distinct difference between Carbonite and SugarSync. Where Carbonite is strictly and distinctly a "backup" solution providing unlimited [...]

Carbonite, a Boston, MA based IT services company specializing in cloud based backup services, was ranked #9 in the 2010 Inc 500 of fastest growing companies. With revenue of $19.1 Million and growth of 11,207.6% over a 3 year period, Carbonite ranked #1 fastest growing in IT Services and also #1 in the Boston area. [...]

Although SugarSync will not directly snyc Oulook data files (.pst, .ost), there is a tool that you can use that will allow SugarSync to back them up for you. Microsoft’s Personal Folders Backup tool provides a quick and easy way to extract Outlook information so SugarSync can back it up for you. This tool is [...]

Here we go again! IDrive is at it again! IDrive is giving away amazing prizes with yet another twitter contest. If you were not lucky enough to win in during the last contest, you can try your luck again. Once again you have the chance to win a MacBook Pro 13″ for the grand prize, [...]

Didn’t win on Mozy Follow Friday? Well don’t worry because now you can get 20% off any new 1 and 2 year subscriptions for MozyHome! All you have to do is click here and use FAF20 at checkout! Mozy has been running discounts and special offers all summer long, and this is the largest discount [...]

You may already be familiar with the Mozy Free Account Friday on Twitter. The contest is still ongoing and its popularity has grown so much that Mozy decided to expand the contest to Facebook users as well.  Every Friday, Mozy will be giving away a FREE one-year MozyHome subscription ($54.45 value) to a lucky winner. [...]

Earlier this year, Mozy’s MozyPro product was awarded with the Excellence in Technology Award for 2009 by readers of Small Business Computing.  Small Business Computing’s awards recognize achievements in small businesses software and hardware services, security, and ecommerce. Their readers get to choose the winners of the best small business tech tools in 20 different [...]

More and more online backup services are popping up every day, and some big name players have exited the market. This makes it harder to decide which online backup service is right for you or your business. We’ve compiled a top 10 list for you to consider before making that decision: How Much Storage Space [...]

IDrive is at it again! IDrive is giving away amazing prizes with yet another twitter contest. If you were not lucky enough to win in last week’s contest, you can try your luck again this time and get a chance to win a MacBook Pro 13″ for the grand prize, or one of the 320GB [...]

“IDrive Online Backup is having its BIGGEST and BEST Twitter Contest” to date. IDrive is giving away a MacBook Pro 13″ for as a grand prize and four 320 GB IDrive Portable USB Drives as a second prizes. This Twitter contest will run from 12:01 am Monday 8/3/2009 to 11:59 pm Friday 8/7/2009. Here are [...]

Syncplicity, a file syncing service similar to SugarSync and Dropbox, announced on July 9th that they will be recalling its Mac Beta version and pulling the plug on it as of July 31st due to technical issues. With this, Backblaze has stepped up to help and rescue Syncplicity’s current Mac users, who will be left [...]

We talked about the Sugarsync referral program in our previous post in June. Today, we are happy to announce that Sugarsync has decided to extend the program’s end date through the end of August. What makes it even sweeter is that Sugarsync will be giving away excellent prizes to 3 existing users with the most [...]

For the month of July, Mozy is offering 10% off to all annual and bi-annual subscribers for both Mozy Home and JULY. Also, last month we posted some Mozy promotional codes that are still ongoing and can even save you up to 20% off. Here are Mozy’s ongoing promotions: Mozy still offers 20% discount to [...]