MozyHome, an online backup service for Macs, has finally reached version 1.0 after more than a year of beta testing. The service offers unlimited online storage for only $4.95 per month.
If you want help with Time Machine, or with a simple backup strategy in Leopard that goes beyond what Time Machine offers, the preview release of our new "Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard" distills just what you need to know.
Every year at Macworld Expo, the TidBITS staff keeps an eye out for the most interesting products, booths, and events - the things that we'd have told you to go check out if you'd been there. Read on for a picture-laden tour of our favorites!
The venerable backup program Retrospect has been acquired from EMC by Sonic Solutions, the parent company of Roxio. Will the move help it regain its former dominant position in the Macintosh backup market?
EMC has finally released Retrospect 8, the long-awaited update to what used to be the king of Macintosh backup programs. The feature set of the new version looks good, but there are a few holes, most notably support for running the server on PowerPC-based Macs.
After his MacBook Pro was snatched, David Blatner discovered the hard way that losing hardware was the least of his concerns. Lesson learned, he details what he's doing now to prevent data loss and potential identity theft on his current laptop.
Macworld Expo attendees can now get a free copy of CrashPlan+ (normally $59.99) by stopping at Code 42 Software's booth, #1278. The commercial version of the popular backup software boasts extra features such as stronger 448-bit encryption, Web-restore capabilities, priority support, and an ad-free interface. Again, this is for Macworld Expo attendees only, but if you are at the show be sure to take advantage of this great offer!
CrashPlan has revised its pricing for online backups to offer unlimited storage for an unlimited number of family computers for $100 per year, far below its competitors.
In the course of writing two editions of "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" and several magazine articles on the same subject, I've tried a lot of Mac backup applications
A number of years ago, when the commercial Internet was still young and hard drive capacities were usually measured in megabytes rather than gigabytes or terabytes, I subscribed to an online backup service
In case you were thinking I'm spending my days here in Paris doing nothing but drinking absinthe and eating baguettes, rest assured that I've also been working hard on a large number of Take Control projects.
Our best-selling Take Control ebook - Joe Kissell's "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" - has just received a free update, bringing it current with the latest on Internet backup services, NDAS and Blu-ray devices, and CrashPlan. Remember, data loss is a question of "when," not "if."
Leopard's new backup feature finally brings easy backups to the masses. But is it really all that? And when is that backups book of Joe's going to be updated, anyway?
Curious about what programs have been updated for Leopard? Look inside for a list of the important or interesting programs that specifically claim Leopard compatibility.
An inexplicable error took us offline for a few hours Tuesday. We're back, mystified, and working to figure out what happened. How can a previously reliable system and two backups all fail?
