If you’re like me, you know you should back up your important data but you don’t. I’ve experienced the panic of thinking files are gone several times, and at those moments I swore to myself that I would start backing up my stuff so this never happened again. But I didn’t. Until now.

I discovered mozy.com from an article in Newsweek. It’s an online backup solution, so you can get rid of your tapes, thumb drives, and external hard drives. Create an account at mozy.com, install the client on your computer, and start backing up! It schedules backups to run automatically when your computer is idle and you have sufficient bandwidth. You can choose what to backup, and I like the concept of “backup sets” from types of files, rather than picking from directory structures (which you can also do).

Some nice features I’ve found already:

• Incremental backups save bandwidth after the first run
• You can view and restore your backed up files from any computer via their web site
• 2GB free data storage – unlimited for only $4.95/month
• Data is stored encrypted, transmitted encrypted

Give it a try. It might just be convenient enough to finally get you backing up your stuff!

Disclaimer: The links to mozy.com from this post include my referral ID. If you sign up using these links I will get extra space for free. Thanks