![]() ![]() Based on our tests, you can't go wrong with either Mozy or Carbonite, but we'd give Carbonite the edge, thanks to its brain-dead simplicity and slightly lower price.Ĭarbonite costs $49.95 a year or $89.95 for two years of service. Meanwhile, in Boston, a homegrown outfit called Carbonite has offered online backup since 2006. in Hopkinton purchased Berkeley Data Systems, a Utah company that offers Mozy, an online backup service for consumers and businesses. Two firms promise to store every file you've got for as little as $50 a year.īoth of them have a Bay State connection. But lots of companies offer online storage for small amounts of data, often at no charge. Not many consumers presently use online backup - only about 1.5 percent, according to a survey taken last year by research firm IDC Corp. These days you can copy your files over the Internet, and store them at a high-security data center, with help from an online data backup service. Unless your backed-up data wasn't home when disaster struck. Besides, if your house is robbed or burnt down, there goes your computer and your precious backup, too. You don't want to spend $100 or more on an external hard drive or figure out how to install the automatic backup software. Sure enough, you choose "or else," because making spare copies of your files is too much bother. ![]() A smart-aleck technology columnist tells you to back up your computer files or else. ![]()
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