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Add to SafariWhen comparing Amazon Glacier vs Mozy, the Slant community recommends Mozy for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services?” Mozy is ranked 10th while Amazon Glacier is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Mozy is:
Stash is a local sync folder similar in functionality to Dropbox.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Extermely low-cost
$0.007 per gigabyte per month is comparatively cheap and allows for large amounts of cloud storage.
Pro Shared folder with Stash
Stash is a local sync folder similar in functionality to Dropbox.
Pro Prevents from social engineering attacks
Mozy end-users are not susceptible to social engineering.
At Mozy, there is no one person who can authorize the deletion of a given individual’s data. Our process of cleaning and deleting a customer’s data is a very structured and automated process, and you can’t call us up and short circuit that process.
Pro Allows for personal encryption keys
Pro Can set two backup targets
A feature called 2x Protect will back up everything to two backup targets - one online and external device attached to your computer.
Cons
Con Not a backup service
Using Amazon Glacier for backup requires learning and setting up third-party tools.
Con Data transfer out >1GB costs money
Retrieving a backup over 1GB costs money starting at $0.090 for 10GB.
Con Can't get to data instantly
Data retrieval can take several hours to initiate.
Con Ridiculously high pricing
Con Basic plan doesn't allow personal encryption keys
Con No unlimited storage plan
Every plan for Mozy has a limit on the storage meaning there is no price one can pay for piece of mind of unlimited storage.
