{"id":55,"date":"2007-06-18T22:09:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T03:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/automated-online-backup-with-mozy-the-key-word-is-automated\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T19:05:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T00:05:14","slug":"automated-online-backup-with-mozy-the-key-word-is-automated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/2007\/automated-online-backup-with-mozy-the-key-word-is-automated\/","title":{"rendered":"Automated online backup with Mozy &#8211; the key word is automated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/?ref=77F6VM\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/images\/logo_verbose.png\" title=\"Mozy Logo\" alt=\"Mozy Logo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" height=\"102\" width=\"303\" \/>Mozy<\/a> is a backup-service that will automatically back up your files on their server on a day-to-day basis when your computer is idle.  I just signed up for it about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>This post is not really a product review.  I haven&#8217;t used Mozy enough to fully recommend it yet and there are other similar services like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbonite.com\/\">Carbonite<\/a> that I have no experience with.  The important concept here is the automation, specifically the automation of tasks that I don&#8217;t really enjoy and normally take up big chunks of time.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year or so I have been trying to keep in mind the concept of opportunity cost&#8211;specifically, the cost of my time when I choose to spend it doing one thing and not another.  So, in the past I would manually make backups every few months on DVDs.  This takes time, requires me to remember all the drives and folders where I put things that are worth backing up, etc.<\/p>\n<p>So now I think to myself, &#8220;what is the cost of using those hours to do backups instead of doing something else?&#8221;  I could probably do some consulting work, and let&#8217;s say I would gain $50 an hour on average, taking into account time it takes to find people who need some work done, etc.  Or I could work on refinishing my kitchen, work I don&#8217;t get paid for but that does prevent me from having to pay someone else.  Or I could spend time with my wife, which I put a large value on.<\/p>\n<p>So by installing Mozy, I have the piece of mind and mitigation of risk I had before (actually more, since these are finer-grained, off-site backups), and the $5.00 per month cost is more than made up by not wasting hundred of dollars in time over the course of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/blogs\/categories\/storage\/3098\/mozy-online-backup.thtml\">Thanks to ITPro in the UK<\/a> for reminding me the name of the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozy is a backup-service that will automatically back up your files on their server on a day-to-day basis when your computer is idle. I just signed up for it about a week ago. This post is not really a product review. I haven&#8217;t used Mozy enough to fully recommend it yet and there are other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[91,759,90,92],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-backup","tag-blog","tag-lifehack","tag-opportunity-cost"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jasonmorrison.net\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}