I have an old XP laptop with a 750GB USB hard drive. I have about 82 GB of data backed up on Mozy. I maintain cached copies of portions of those files on my newer laptop with Vista's Offline Files feature. When the old laptop is off or unavailable (e.g., I am not at home), I can still access the cached files just as if they were shared on the laptop. It is very, very difficult for a home user to do daily incremental backups, daily ship all backups outside one's home, and have enterprise-standard redundancy. Having one spare USB hard drive is not an effective backup strategy. BTW, I use SyncToy to push a backup of my work-related laptop files to my work PC. Nice utility. Upgrading to Windows 7 tomorrow--SMU can get the RTM then--so I'll be using it today to refresh my backup. Aren On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Do you use Mozy? Do you backup your entire hard drive(s)? > > " You can't get backups that good with your own equipment." Why not? > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Aren Cambre<aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ditch that. Just use mozy.com. All backups go to the cloud for $5/month, > > less if you do 1 or 2 year agreements. > > > > Then if your house burns down, Mozy has a backup as recent as your latest > > backup, which can be daily. > > > > You can't get backups that good with your own equipment. > > > > Aren > > > > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> > >> I have ~56GB of data on the home PC. Some of it is important, so I've > >> been backing up folders using Microsoft's SyncToy. Now I'm wondering > >> if I should have a mirror backup (an exact copy of my hard drive) > >> instead of doing file by file, or maybe I should do both? My backup > >> external drive is 160GB, and I've got another 250GB I'm not using. > >> > >> A mirrored drive is nice since you can just plug it in and you're back > >> in business, at least up to the point of the last backup. With file > >> by file you have more work to rebuild. > >> > >> If you guys are doing mirrored backups, what software are you using? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> Chris > >> > >> > >> Rules: Please play nicely with others. > >> > >> -List members page (text & pic links): > >> http://www.myelcamino.net/eclist.htm > >> -List members page (all pics): > >> http://www.myelcamino.net/ec_list.htm > >> > > > > > > > Rules: Please play nicely with others. > > -List members page (text & pic links): > http://www.myelcamino.net/eclist.htm > -List members page (all pics): > http://www.myelcamino.net/ec_list.htm > >