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I would avoid Mozy. I was using them with their unlimited plan. Less than a year ago, they dropped their unlimited plan and the new plan would have quadrupled my costs.

I switched to CrashPlan and have been happy so far.

With my current usage (just over 125 GB), it would cost me $11.99 per month for Mozy. I payed CrashPlan $118.99 for 4 years of unlimited usage, or less than $2.50 per month.

Mozy essentially "fired" me as a customer. They stated that some customers were using too much data on their unlimited plan and introduced the new tiered price structure with the intention of pushing out the heavy users. Seems odd to me, since I only backup my music, photos, and important documents. I don't even backup my videos.

It just didn't make sense for me to stay with them. The idea of charging $2/month for each 20GB above 125 seems pretty steep. And since the amount I back up will grow over time, so will my month cost.



CrashPlan looks awesome, and they support linux. Thanks for the pointer.




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