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01/22/2008 12:08:31 AM · #1 |
Mozy
Anyone a current user? Thoughts?
Seems reasonable as far as prices & nice interface with auto uploads and the files are encrypted locally. Thinking about do this with all my stuff. |
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01/22/2008 12:14:38 AM · #2 |
| I use it as a backup for my backups. It works pretty good. The files upload behind the scenes without much fuss and you can restore any file you want within windows explorer (i.e. it acts like a remote drive). |
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01/22/2008 12:35:31 AM · #3 |
How much stuff do you have there? I am always leary of "unlimited" space and wondered if there was some restriction not mentioned so far (like a bandwidth limit or something). I have @800GB of stuff and obviously the first full backup will take a while :-/
I signed up for the free account to have a play with the software & interface before I jump in. Looks interesting so far.
Message edited by author 2008-01-22 00:36:48. |
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01/22/2008 12:48:26 AM · #4 |
To be honest I haven't paid it too much attention. I just let it upload in the backgroud. I set it to upload around 600 gigs and right now I have about 150 gigs uploaded. It's taken me weeks to get that far but I'm not on the best connection (wireless broadband but with the router/moden in a shitty location). It does upload at my max speed though when I set it to that.
Message edited by author 2008-01-22 00:48:46. |
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01/22/2008 01:16:08 AM · #5 |
Does it keep backups of stuff you don't have on your local machine... ie, can you backup external drives?
I know some of these backup services won't backup offline data.
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01/22/2008 01:35:06 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Does it keep backups of stuff you don't have on your local machine... ie, can you backup external drives?
I know some of these backup services won't backup offline data. |
Yes. I have it backup stuff I have on my external hard drives. If I have it disconnected then it just uploads what it can see on my internal drives. |
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01/22/2008 01:36:17 AM · #7 |
WOW, ok :-D I might be sold on that!
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02/10/2008 11:28:10 PM · #8 |
Signed up and am uploading an external drive now. Should take about 3 days...lol. Don't think my Vonage phone is going to be of much use for a few days, but oh well.
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02/11/2008 12:03:03 AM · #9 |
My big issue was that it refuses to deal with network drives... unless you pay the far dearer business version. I have used it since I posted the first question for local emails & stuff (just under the 2Gb free limit) and seems okay. Incremental backups are faster but the initial push is pretty bad and I have reasonable upload speed unlike most people.
Overall, I was happy but it's not much chop for me because I use a NAS box for almost everything.... It backups up my local machine already and can restore if I have an issue. |
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02/11/2008 07:12:53 AM · #10 |
| tried Mozy, but found Carbonite better, less expensive, less intrusive. |
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02/14/2008 12:21:14 PM · #11 |
What a royal Piece of Poo!
To make things a real pisser, it gets like 4% into the job, which has taken most of 24 hours and quits the backup for some unknown reason. And although, i've tried backing up like 10 times now, it says I've not done any backups.
It makes my somewhat well performing computer into a chunky turd even at it's slowest setting.
Uninstalling now and canceling my subscription. I think I'd be better off burning to DVD. It's a hell of a lot less frustrating.
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