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For my own personal data<\/em>, I use a variety of backup and archival methods depending on the data I wish to protect. Frequent visitors to this blog will know I’m a particular fan of Time Machine<\/a> \u2013 at least for my Mac OS X system drive backups. For other data drives, particularly multimedia data, I tend to stick to DVD due to relative cost vs importance of recovering quickly. I.e., burning to DVD is cheaper than maintaining backup hard drives, and I don’t need to recover such data quickly enough to justify not<\/em> doing the disk swapping associated with DVD-recovery.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the critical data \u2013 the data whose backups I want offsite for maximum protection. Source code, manuscripts, financial data, etc.<\/p>\n

For that, I’ve been using Mozy<\/a> for the last 6 months or so, and I have to say I’m pretty impressed with it. For the most part, I’m not a fan of cloud based backups \u2013 this however is a geographic decision. Compared to other countries, such as the United States, Australian ISPs charge an exorbitant amount of money for bandwidth. Admittedly at the higher end of the price scale, my ISP charges me $160 per month for a fixed IP address with 60GB\/month transfer. Thus, doing large scale backup or recovery “to\/from the cloud” for me, personally, is financially insane.<\/p>\n

For key files and data though, it’s perfect.<\/p>\n

From the perspective of getting your backup done, Mozy<\/a> is:<\/p>\n