Update: There are many solutions to the backup problem. We chose to look at CrashPlan—rather than Carbonite, Mozy, Amanda Enterprise, KineticCloud, the Tivoli Storage Manager, and others that we ...

Two of the best-known online backup services for Mac – CrashPlan and Mozy – have announced changes in their offerings for business users. In Mozy’s case, however, the change also affects users of its ...

You can lose your valuable data in plenty of ways, including hard-drive failure, theft (laptops are particularly vulnerable), and catastrophe (fire, extreme weather, earthquake). Although the cloud ...

Cloud-based backup services come as close as you can get to making this necessary, but oh-so-avoidable chore hassle-free. Even if you already back up your data to an external hard drive, you need a ...

It's not that Mozy hasn't been a great cloud-based backup service, especially for beginners. But the sudden price jump is catching many off-guard, especially users of the unlimited plan. Here's where ...

With the largest supplier of online backup announcing the end of its unlimited plans, users interested in remotely protecting their data may be looking for other options. Twitter has been lighting up ...

If you don’t back up your Mac’s files, then it’s a matter of when—not if—you’ll lose data that’s precious to you. Apple already robbed Mac users of any excuse not to back up regularly with Time ...

I let my Mozy subscription lapse ~2 weeks ago, and I just got 'round to switching to CrashPlan. Holy cow is the client nice, and I'm uploading at 8.5Mbps (and climbing). At this rate I'll have all ...

Backups work best when you have multiple copies, at least one of which is both current and offsite. OS X’s Time Machine feature plus high-capacity, low-cost hard drives make it possible to back up ...

In a bold grab at a competitor's customers, CrashPlan is giving away a $49.99 backup service plan with no strings attached. Also: get a deal on a family plan. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...