{"id":1680,"date":"2011-02-02T13:23:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T17:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T18:43:00","slug":"backup-your-desktop-computer-to-the-cloud-or-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highedwebtech.com\/2011\/02\/02\/backup-your-desktop-computer-to-the-cloud-or-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Backup Your Desktop Computer to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four years ago, I bought an external hard drive to backup my work stuff, freelance projects, music, pictures of my kids and much more. It was great – I felt safe knowing those files were safely off my iMac if it shuffled off the mortal coil.<\/p>\n

Then, the unthinkable happened. While my iMac was fine – the external drive died and I lost everything. It sucked.<\/p>\n

No more, I promised. It’s online backup for me. So I began my research.<\/p>\n

The first company I used was Mozy<\/a>, who for $5 a month per computer promised unlimited backup. They had a Mac client, and after an initial upload of about two weeks (seriously, I just let it run at night,) I was backed up. Any files I added would automatically get backed up.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the software was buggy on the Mac when I was a customer, and it seemed they were throttling my uploads. I began my search for a new backup company.<\/p>\n

After some research, I settled on BackBlaze<\/a> (not an affiliate link). I’ve never looked back.<\/p>\n

For $5 a month (\u00a34 for my UK friends), you get unlimited backup of 1 computer – be it Mac or PC.<\/p>\n

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After about a week and a half for my initial backup, I’ve been good ever since. I don’t back up everything – I don’t need all the log files, plists and more that my Mac generates. I could, if I wanted to, just backup my mp3 files. I can also put in my own encryption key so that the data I upload to Backblaze is viewable only by me. That’s nice if you’re worried about security.<\/p>\n

In fact, I’ve also installed it on my work Mac so it too is backed up. They’ve got a very nice native Mac app that is controlled from the Control Panel. That’s nice. If you’re a corporate user, they also offer business plans at $50 per computer per year. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Restores are super simple as well – you can restore files at a secure website and download them as needed. If you need a larger amount of data, they’ll burn you a DVD or send you an external hard drive.<\/p>\n

I dig BackBlaze because they’re geeky. Sure, they’re easy enough that my Mom can restore files on her Macbook, but I like that they share about their technology and how they accomplish things. They’ve even open-sourced their storage pod enclosure designs<\/a>, which is pretty neat.<\/p>\n

Basically, I’m a big fan, and I bring this up today because I’ve been seeing a lot of blog posts<\/a> about Mozy and the fact that they’re the first of the all you can eat cloud backup providers (Carbonite, CrashPlan, etc.) to change their pricing structure – making users pay by how much they backup. Whenever your current plan updates (monthly, yearly, 2 years), you’ll be switched to the new pricing plan.<\/p>\n

Under the new plan, you can backup 50GB on 1 computer for $6 a month. For $10 a month, you can backup up three computers up to 125GB. You can add $2 per month for an additional 20GB.<\/p>\n

I was surprised when I checked Backblaze this morning and saw that I’m backing up 149GB. In the Mozy model, I’d be paying $16 a month, or about $120 more a year.<\/p>\n

I get that there are some power users backing up a ton, but there also people like my parents paying $5 each to BackBlaze and backing up very little (a few GB of music and photos.) I would think the average home user doesn’t use 150GB like I do and it would even out.<\/p>\n

Would I pay more for BackBlaze? Yes, but only if the tiers were clearly defined. For example – users backing up less than 5Gb would pay one price, and over 5GB would pay a certain amount. I’m sure Backblaze has the data showing a breakdown among users and what percentage of users are “power” users backing up over a certain amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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