Save yourself time and headaches by using Mozy Pro to back up your files!
February 21, 2017

Save yourself time and headaches by using Mozy Pro to back up your files!

Ruby Javaid | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Mozy Pro

I use Mozy as a backup service for all my design files on my work computer as well as my personal files on my home computer. The plan I'm on lets me have up to 3 computers connected for backup, so I have my parents' laptop being backed up as well.
Business wise, this tool is invaluable. My computer crashed a few years ago completely. To the point where I had to do a factory reset. If it hadn't been for Mozy, I would have lost everything. Fortunately I had Mozy and lost almost nothing. It's also great for transferring computers. You can do a final backup on the old machine and do a full restore on the new machine and everything will be restored in the same way as it was on the old machine, file folder structures included.
  • Full file backups
  • Automatic backups so I don't have to think about it. You can set it to a specific time of day or number of times you want it to backup throughout the day.
  • Restore is very easy, almost like one click.
  • You can log in to Mozy anytime to view files that have been backed up. Once I forgot to bring home a file I needed for a project I was working on, and I was able to log in and download it from the cloud very easily and quickly.
  • They have a Stash folder feature that I haven't used very often, but it's great and works the same way as a Dropbox folder or Google Drive folder would. It makes the files you save in it available immediately.
  • I would like to see backups for programs that I have installed on my machine. For instance I use Adobe CS6 and MS Office among other things. Instead of having to reinstall all these programs on my new machine, I would love for Mozy to be able to save the programs somehow and I can restore them as they were on the old machine with the same almost one-click process that I use to restore files. Basically like Time Machine, but for Windows.
  • When my computer crashed in 2013, I had only been in business for 2 years. But if I had lost all those files, that would be have been tens of thousands of dollars worth of work down the drain. So it definitely saved me there.
  • Also saves time when transferring between devices, because I can turn it on and let it restore while I go do other things instead of having to put all my files on a hard drive and then transferring them over manually.
Mozy is great if you have lots of big files that are business related that you can't afford to lose. It's also great if you have thousands of personal files like photos that you would be upset at losing. If you can make use of Google Photos/Drive to meet your needs, then that would be a cheaper solution. But for business, this is the way to go.