


They are not actually deleted for 30 days, so if your drive is scanned anytime in those 30 days, the deletion marks will be removed. I also checked the Backblaze documentation, and their behavior on external drives is identical to Mozy's: if your drive is not connected at time of scan, the files at Mozy (or Backblaze) are marked for deletion.
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I had not considered Backblaze because they did not have a Mac client, but I see now that they do. I have considered this, and one of the reasons I have done the above calculations is that my new firewire drives automatically sleep with my Mac, so that now I do not have to remember to turn them on and off: they are always connected. In any case check closely with Mozy or Blazeback and make sure it is going to backup your USB drives the way you expect them to. I think it does a better job of handling USB drives, though you still cannot move them between machines without having to back them up all over again. This caught me big time when I first tried Mozy a couple of years ago.Īctually I found that if you remove the USB drive and later plug it back in, but it appears with a different drive letter Mozy will think it is a new drive and think the old one is gone and upload it all over again as a brand new drive. Mozy will backup a USB drive, but if you run a backup or Mozy does it automatically runs and the USB isn't plugged when you do, Mozy will mark all those files as deleted and you will have to upload them again. if you delete it from a hard drive it gets marked as deleted on Mozy and in 30 days disappears on Mozy. Mozy maintains a copy of things on your harddrives. Things may have changed at Mozy but the last time I tried it, it didn't really backup USB drives the way I wanted it to. if you push something up to SmugVault it just stays there until you delete it. There is a difference between what Mozy and most other "backup" services do, and SmugVault do. What do you think? Does SmugVault seem awfully expensive? Does anyone use it and find it is not as expensive as this? Maybe I need to only backup my 'best' work in the cloud, and leave the rest of my just average images to their fate? My issue with this strategy is that I have often gone back and rescued images for other purposes, and would hate to lose anything. With math alone, I just don't get who SmugVault is for? Clearly anyone with a sizable collection and moderate monthly shooting can't be who this is for…maybe its for the casual photographer who has only a few dear images that are needed? So, unless I have really balled up the math, its $542.08 a year (and $480.08 per year in subsequent years) vs $55 a year. Mozy costs $55 a year, no transfer fees, no storage fees, and no limits. My other option is Mozy, which I use now, but more casually. I could simply make more backups and store them in my office, as I do now. Of course, that does not buy me offsite storage, which is what I really need. For the cost of SmugVault, I can buy 8 of these hard drives a year, or 4TB of hard drive space every year. To put this in perspective, I just purchased 2x Western Digital My Book Studio 500GB for $65ea via WD's refurbished site.

So using SmugVault, my yearly cost of backing up my photos would be: Moving my initial 150GB data 'blob' would cost $45 initially, with the 4GB per month costing $1.20 per month or $14.40 per year. But I am adding 4GB per monthly, so that would represent an extra storage cost per year: $75.68. Data transfer out is 51 cents per gigabyte.Ī monthly storage cost $0.22 per GB: $33, which works out to yearly storage cost = $396. Data transfer in is 30 cents per gigabyte.Storage costs 22 cents per gigabyte per month.I will assume that I won't be downloading from the cloud, unless catastrophe hits. (some months are more, some are less in reality). I have 150GB of photos that must be backed up, and for the purposes of this calculation, I will assume that I am adding 4GB per month to that total. I have run the math, and the difference is huge, big enough to make me think I did something very wrong, or at least wonder who SmugVault is really for, because, it doesn't seem like it is for me. I would go with Mozy over say, Carbonite, because Mozy can also backup external drives, as long as they are on and attached at backup time (mounted in Mac speak). I have been examining other options, and settled on two: SmugVault (basically same as S3/Jungledisk), or Mozy. Today, my offsite storage involves a 'traveling hard drive' that I use periodically at home, then store at my office.
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I am planning to upgrade my offsite storage, to a 'cloud' based solution.
