What is Mozy Stash?

Stash is a file synchronization feature that provides Mozy users a simple way to keep their most active data up to date across each of the computers they regularly use. As a complement to the protection of Mozy online backup, Stash simplifies having multiple devices while protecting your files.

How do I use Stash?

Stash is designed to work for you transparently, so you really don’t need to do much to use it. Think of it as just a place to put the files you’re actively working on so that you have them wherever you need them–your Stash.

When you install Stash on your computer, it links a local folder with your Stash online. Add a file to the local Stash folder, and you can securely access it from the Mozy website or Mozy's mobile app almost instantly. When you link more than one computer to your Stash, any changes you make on one linked computer get updated on all of your other linked computers.

You can also upload photos and videos to your Stash from your mobile phone or tablet. At a later phase in the public beta, you will be able to upload documents and other files, too.

Finally, because Stash uses the Mozy storage infrastructure, your Stash enjoys the same protection you have come to trust from Mozy online backup.

How is Stash different from Mozy online backup?

Online backup and Stash complement each other to provide you with anytime, anywhere access to all of your files. Although the two features work together, they each do their work somewhat differently.

Mozy online backup protects files against loss no matter where they reside on your computer. The files you protect with online backup are always available to you through the Mozy app for mobiles or the Mozy web site. But unlike Stash, online backup never sends updates to other computers.
With Mozy Stash, each computer that you have linked to your Stash automatically keeps its local Stash folder up to date with your Stash online. Files you put in your Stash are also available through the Mozy app and web site, but Stash goes a step further. Unlike with online backup, files that you put in your Stash get updated automatically so that you always have your latest work ready to go on each computer that is linked to your Stash.

Together, Mozy online backup and Stash make all your files available to you from anywhere, allowing you to choose which files you want to synchronize but still keeping the rest of your files easily available and completely protected.

How is Stash different from the Mozy app for mobiles?

The Mozy apps for Android and iOS devices has become one of Mozy’s most popular feature releases ever. With it, you can access all of the files you protect with Mozy from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, as well as Android mobile phones and Android tablets such as the Kindle Fire.

Stash is complementary, and makes the Mozy app even better. For example, during the public beta, the Mozy app allows you to upload photos and videos from your mobile device directly to your Stash. After uploading, your linked computers then automatically download the newly uploaded files so that you can work with them directly from your computers.

Stash also sends updates to your Mozy account as they happen rather than on a schedule. So if you have a file on your computer that you want to access from your mobile, and you don't want to wait until the next back up, Stash it!

What should I put in my Stash?

Anything you want. But since Mozy online backup already protects all the files on your computers, we recommend keeping your latest, greatest work in your Stash—especially the stuff you're actively editing. If you're working on a document and you want the latest changes to be there on each computer that you regularly use, put it in your Stash.