To help promote the launch of their UK online backup service, Mozy have put together a great promotional video where computer users on the streets of London are given an opportunity to get a free new macbook. The catch? Well, in order to get their new laptop they have to smash their current laptop up there on the spot.
The video highlights how valuable users’ data is, and how most computer users would decline the offer because they don’t have a backup of their precious photos, documents, music etc:
I wish they’d asked me as I have a fairly good backup regime; all of my PCs are backed up to my Windows Home Server which allows me to do a full restore, or rebuild the image on a new machine in the event of a loss/hardware failure, in about 20-30 minutes. On my Windows Home Server all of key files are saved on 2 HDDs in case one HDD fails, and I also do an offsite backup to Mozy in case the server ever dies, is stolen or my flat burns down. My backup regime may seem a bit excessive, but I’m now 100% self-employed so losing my business files would be a disaster, I’ve spent endless hours organising my media collection, and most importantly my wife would kill me if we lost our personal photos and videos, including the birth of our little girl this year.
I chose Mozy as my provider for a number of reasons:
- Great Price: $4.95/month for unlimited backup. Strangely the new Mozy UK service charges £4.95/month or around $7.5/month – very strange (and unfair…) as UK users are able to signup for the US service
- Unlimited Backup: Genuine unlimited backup with no file exclusions that other providers like Carbonite enforce
- Fast: I have a 1.5Mbps connection and I get my full line speed to Mozy’s servers. Mozy also compresses files locally before transmission, which makes even large backup jobs complete quickly (mine is 600GB)
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