Jason Dunn
03-16-2010, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mozy.com/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=30184&m=4&i=75' target='_blank'>http://www.mozy.com/?ref=3f9a896b&k...=30184&m=4&i=75</a><br /><br /></div><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com//dht/auto/1268764260.usr1.png" style="border: 0;" /></p><p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> James Jolley, Marketing Manager at Mozy, emailed me to say that everything I was told below was 100% false. Mozy is not working on a Windows Home Server version of their software. The tech support representative gave me false information - I have no idea why he'd do that, so I'm pretty upset at feeling duped. I asked Jolley for a quote regarding Mozy's stance on Windows Home Server and why there's no solution for it yet, but after five days I haven't heard back from Jolley and I suspect I'm not going to.</p><p><strong>UPDATE #2:</strong> Devin Knighton, who does PR for Mozy got back to me and provided the following quote: <em>"Mozy supports Windows Server with its MozyPro offering, not MozyHome. We do not have any plans at this time to include server support in our MozyHome Unlimited offering."</em> To give you some perspective on how unrealistic this is, I have 418 GB of data backed up with Mozy right now. If I were to back up that same amount of data using MozyPro, it would cost me <strong>$215 USD/month</strong>. Right now I pay <strong>$4.33 USD/month</strong>. Those numbers speak for themselves, so I guess I'll continue to use my current setup to back up my data to Mozy. I think there's a market her for someone to come along and win customers away from Mozy, so hopefully someone will step up and provide a great backup solution for Windows Home Server customers.</p><p>Every few months, if I happen to remember to do so, I'll email Mozy and <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">beg</span> ask them to create a version of their software for the Windows Home Server platform. I think Mozy is fantastic (<a href="http://www.mozy.com/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=30184&m=4&i=75" target="_blank">here's an affiliate link if you want to sign up</a>) but I've been irked that they haven't had a Windows Home Server version of their software since that's where all my data is centrally stored. Every time I've emailed them in the past, they've told me that since it's a server, I'd need to use their MozyPro service, which is much more expensive. That's missing the "home" part of the product name of course, because it's a product aimed at home users and those users can't going to pay the rates that MozyPro charges. When I emailed Mozy again a few days ago, I was expecting the same canned response, but imagine my surprise when I received this response instead:</p><p><em>"Our Research team is working to develop a client for Windows Home Server for MozyHome customers. Once it is developed you can switch back to MozyHome and back up Windows Home Server."</em></p><p>That's great news! I'm not sure when they'll release it - one would hope sometime this year - or what it will cost, but at least they're working on it. I'm willing to pay a bit more for a Windows Home Server version, but not much more. I hope Mozy doesn't price this in the range of MozyPro.</p><p>Oh, and as a side note, if you're not already using online backup service, ask yourself this question: if you lost <em>everything </em>on your computer today, including the backups you probably keep in your house or even attached to your computer, would you pay $5/month to get it all back? If so, then <a href="http://www.mozy.com/?ref=3f9a896b&kbid=30184&m=4&i=75" target="_blank">sign up for Mozy today</a> and save yourself from that feeling of regret.</p><p><strong></strong>I heard back from the Mozy support tech was shared this information with me and he said it <em>"should be launched very shortly."</em> Sounds like it won't be much of a wait after all!</p>