MOZYHOME NOT BACKING UP FOR MAC

Next, you run the Backup Configuration wizard, which asks for your username and password, lets you choose between your own private symmetric encryption key or Mozy's default 448-bit key, and makes suggestions about what to safeguard. A setup wizard then takes you through installation.

MOZYHOME NOT BACKING UP FOR MAC

After this, you download either the 7MB Windows version of the software client or the 4.5MB beta for Mac OS. Enter an e-mail address, create and confirm a password, choose how many PCs you'll be backing up, and set the length of your subscription.

But in an increasingly competitive online backup market, this former Editors' Choice hasn't evolved enough since our last review, and it suffers from usability and security shortcomings. There's a lot more to like, too: 128-bit encryption during data transfers and 448-bit Blowfish encryption on the servers, the ability to back up open files, and a bandwidth-saving strategy of backing up only changed portions of files. You get 2GB of storage space free, and $4.95 a month gets you unlimited backup space-on a par with what most personal online backup solutions are charging these days. MozyHome Online Backup makes it easy, and because EMC, one of the biggest names in storage, is behind it, you have some assurance that the service-and your data-won't disappear. For consumers or people who work from home, that can be hard. No matter where you use your data, it's best to store somewhere else.

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