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Add to SafariWhen comparing Mozy vs SpiderOak, the Slant community recommends SpiderOak for most people. In the question“What are the best cloud backup services?” SpiderOak is ranked 5th while Mozy is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose SpiderOak is:
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Specs
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Pros
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.
Pro Combines cloud syncing, storage service and backup client
Thus you have a single service for all of the things.
Pro Incrementals
SpiderOak updates only that part of the file that has changed, saving bandwidth and time.
Pro Available for many platforms
The Spideroak client is available for Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS.
Pro Zero knowledge
Data is locally encrypted before uploading to Spideroak. They cannot recover your data even if they wanted to since it is stored in encrypted state on their servers.
Pro Unintrusive
Cons
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.
