6.15.2009

In the past few years, I have helped my family (several times) "try" and recover lost files. I have also lost things a couple of times on my own box. The biggest disaster was my dad's hard drive about a year and a half ago. He had all of his digital pictures on it (not backed up) and the drive decided it was finished. Well, needless to say he paid about $1,500 to get the pictures back and some of them were damaged. I personally have TONS of pictures, videos, etc on my drives and I was trying to back them all up via DVD and then have a copy at my house, my parents house. I also had them on an external drive, my iPod, and then favorites on Picasa. Well... needless to say... 30+ GB of pictures sure does use a lot of DVD's and hard drive space... especially with 10x redundancy!

I attended a Ruby Users group meeting at Mozy a couple of months ago and then decided to look them up. This was about the time they were advertising hard with their commercials. I thought "Unlimited space for 5 bucks, impossible." I decided to give it a try for a month to see if it was true. Well, I am now backing up about 500 GB for 5 dollars a month... yes, that's right 5 dollars a month.





Features I love:

  • Unlimited (yes, unlimited) space
  • You have a Mozy drive that contains all the files that are on the Mozy server
  • Quick restore
  • Can be scheduled (for the middle of the night)
  • You can throttle the speed of the uploads
Where Mozy need some work:
  • Well, lets face it indexing that many files takes some time...
  • Mozy can take up a good chunk of CPU and memory during a backup.

My parents have already used Mozy a few times to backup accidentally deleted files. Mozy keeps deleted files for 30 days... so you have a bit of time just in case.

Anyways, this link will give you a 10% discount on the service. I would give it a try. That 1500 bucks would have paid for about 25 years of the service... well worth it in my mind.

6.10.2009

Dr. Pearl

Mona is congested and has thrush... good thing she has Pearl to take care of her. Pearl doesn't just play doctor, she plays "Dr. Berry", our family doctor.

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Yes, you're seeing it right... they're wearing the same clothes. The sad thing is, I think Mona will grow out of them first! Pearl makes all sorts of strange discoveries while Mom is busy nursing Mona... how to open the back door, where Mom keeps the marshmallows and, today, that she fits in Mona's clothes.

6.06.2009

Hogle Zoo

Aunt Andrea took Pearl to the Zoo. Pearl had so much fun. She was talking for days about different animals, the animal playground, and anything she could remember.

Note to Andrea: Pearl wants to know when you're going to take her out again!