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Good news reaches us from Jason Dunn over at Digital Home Thoughts who pinged us overnight to let us know he’d been in touch with online backup provider Mozy, who have revealed that they are working on supporting Windows Home Server on their MozyHome backup service.
MozyHome costs $4.95 per month for unlimited backup (other price options are also available) which would be a competitive proposition compared to other online backup players currently supporting Windows Home Server.
According to Jason, Mozy revealed,”Our Research team is working to develop a client for Windows Home Server for MozyHome customers. Once it is developed you can… back up Windows Home Server. (It) should be launched very shortly.“
I’m looking forward to hearing more – this could be very cool indeed! Fingers crossed the pricing model remains the same as I’ll be the first in the queue with a whole heap of stuff to back-up! Are you using an online backup service for your home server? Would Mozy change the game for you?
Update: Mozy PR: “We support servers right now but only through our MozyPro offering for businesses. I’ve not heard anything including server support in MozyHome. ” Maybe someone talked a little early? Let’s wait and see what happens over the coming weeks.
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17. March 2010 at 12:32 pm
Sounds great… I will be ready for that.. unlimited for 4,95$ pr. month, and home server integration…perfect!
17. March 2010 at 1:25 pm
I've been using iDrive for a month now. Works perfectly with WHS support (although you have to remote in, there's no Console add-in.) $50 for 150G or $150 for 500G plus 5 computers. A lot fast than Carbonite was, plus it supports backing up open locked files that Carbonite chocked on.
17. March 2010 at 1:53 pm
Already use Mozyhome, if it could be with add-ins and support -for same price or almost- I'm in the list
17. March 2010 at 9:41 am
Hmm … wonder how they’d feel if I tried to back up all 12TB currently on my server?
17. March 2010 at 2:59 pm
I was just thinking that .. I have 9.64 TB now , with another 2Tb waiting for my damn 3.0 upgrade disc .. for $4.95 a month sounds like quite a deal
17. March 2010 at 3:30 pm
Been using MozyHome for almost 2 years now and have been generally happy with it. WHS is supported but requires MozyHome Pro, which charges per GB backed up. If they offer something along the lines of MozyHome pricing, I'm probably in as well.
17. March 2010 at 5:20 pm
Using iDrive at the moment – the 500GB package which costs around $14 a month. I have been extremely happy with iDrive as Mozy/Carbonite had some unique limitations. They may have changed their pricing structure, but with Mozy, WHS was considered a server license, which started charging by the GB. iDrive – you pay for the space, they don't care how you fill it up.
Just my 2 cents.
17. March 2010 at 6:16 pm
Id buy into it…. if the home service would work with whs.
17. March 2010 at 1:26 pm
I would sign up in a heart beat. I just hope the price is still home "friendly", and isn't made into some sort of corporate server price point.
If it is $4.95/month (or even a few dollars more) I'd get this right away, plus I'd tell all my friends. That assumes that it would backup both the shared folders (one copy) and backup databases. However, it also needs to have incremental backup and maintain prior versions. So if something in a shared folder were accidentally deleted or overwritten, I'd still have time to recover that (a minimum of 90 days later would be my hope).
17. March 2010 at 9:18 pm
According to current data on their website, it's base don incremental backup with a 30 day recovery, for the current version.
17. March 2010 at 7:02 pm
not old would i buy it, but i had mozy home when i was using XP pro as my file server and paid in full for a year, then went to WHS and it would not run…so i emailed them and got a refund and canceled my service….
maybe this is a case of voting with your wallet working?
18. March 2010 at 12:06 am
Been a MozyHome user for years and turned many people on to their service. Really hope they bring a competitive WHS solution to the market! Come on MOZY!!
18. March 2010 at 12:57 am
I'd consider this, just for the convenience and offsite security… but they need to remember that they are in close price competition with TB-size external drives that are easy to fill and keep at the office.
18. March 2010 at 4:01 am
This is a feature Mozy Home user waiting for. Unlimited Backup for server is perfect.
18. March 2010 at 4:35 am
Mozy is slow in recovering files. Hopefully they solved all those issues.
18. March 2010 at 11:11 am
I hope they do get it working. I currently use Carbonite on a virtual XP machine to back up with Carbonite. If either one of them could get their stuff to work on a WHS it would be GREAT!!!
18. March 2010 at 1:05 pm
I tried Mozy Home a few months ago, their support was completely in adequate and couldn’t understand the concept of a consumer orientated home server.
I’m now a happy CrashPlan customer, it’s not WHS specific, but it runs on any Window’s OS and is actually cheaper than Mozy, either way it’s better than Mozy Home!
http://b3.crashplan.com/consumer/features-compare.html
19. March 2010 at 4:27 am
I currently use iDrive and have not had any issues to date … Mozy might interest me when they support WHS if they price is right (once I reach my iDrive limits that is).
21. March 2010 at 11:12 pm
looks a lot like http://www.backblaze.com/
22. March 2010 at 11:51 pm
Hey guys, it's Chris from the Home Server Show Podcast. I'm a Wuala user for now but if I could get a commercial add-in with unlimited cloud backup for $5 a month, I would jump on that. Honestly, I would probably pay as much as $10 but no more than that. I'm excited to see what they come up with!
23. March 2010 at 3:41 am
It will not happen. They have been saying the same thing since WHS came out. I started looking when Scott Hanselman (of MSFT) posted this, note the last line:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ReviewHPMediaSmartW...
I have contacted actual devs there, at times over the years. It is always the same sort of thing – like this article says. They sprikle some wording that sounds about right – but they do not want you to actually be able to do store 10 computers of data via 1 for 4.95 a month. For a while they were talking about a WHS specific version, but essentially they could not get their client to work well. That was about 1.5 years ago. My understanding is it would have to be a fresh code write.
Finally – the reason you cannot install is because Mozy sees it as Windows Server and they have the app disabled to install. Technically it will work with it, just just block it. There are ways around it, but it is not worth it.
23. March 2010 at 7:14 pm
LOL, I was just looking into backing up my WHS to Carbonite after listening to TWIT! (only to find out it won't)… Guess I'll see if Mozy can deliver anything in the next month…. Fingers crossed the house doesn't burn down before I get to it!
8. April 2010 at 7:53 am
4.95 is really cheap considering that it is unlimited. good stuff here … thanks for sharing this and keep the good posts coming :. Thanks a lot!
25. May 2010 at 12:28 am
http://www.onlinestoragesolution.com
Simple, lots of features, unlimited space for $19 /yr.
There is no third party software that runs, but if you can configure rsync, you can encrypt your data just like mozy and all the others do.