Take AVSIM for example. AVSIM, a leading website dedicated to the flight simulation community focusing mainly on Microsoft’s Flight Simulator program, recently had their two servers hacked and their site brought down. The company had no external backup system. Thirteen years of hard work and success where instantly wiped out.

“Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day,” the site’s founder said. “Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back-up to remedy the situation.” As of right now, AVSIM founder fears that the company may never recover from their data loss.

While we don’t wish disaster upon anyone, the truth is, disasters happen. Accidentally deleting a file, contracting a virus, or being the victim of a hacker can ruin your business in minutes. Unfortunately, stories like that of AVSIM’s are occurring more and more. I’ve made sure my friends and family have a backup plan, and so should you!

Before signing up for a MozyHome Unlimited account, Andrew backed up over 8,000 photos and hours of video manually on DVDs and external hard drives. It was tedious and time-consuming, but it paid off when his hard drive crashed. He was able to restore almost all of his data from his backups, but the crash made him wonder what would have happened if his on-site backups had been lost along with his hard drive.

After researching online backup solutions, he decided Mozy was a perfect fit for his situation.

“Mozy offers the simplicity, versatility and reliability I want at a cost that is actually less than what I would pay to maintain my own on-site storage,” Andrew said. “The client is easy to use but has enough options to ensure my selected data is secure and the few times I have had to restore a few files the process has been straight forward and quick.”

Signing up with Mozy has saved Andrew money and time while protecting his photos, video and other data.