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Backblaze vs Mozy vs Carbonite vs Jungle Disk

whynot83706 said:
Since you have been using Mozy before, can you compare them, what are the things you don't like or like with Backblaze. I have 300GB so I don't want to back them up 3 differet times.
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Mozy always seemed to be getting confused about what it had backed up already and what still needed to be backed up. One day it would tell me I was fully backed up, the next day it would start a backup of 300 GB of files. :eek:

Not very confidence-inspiring to say the least, not to mention the constant heavy uploads that weren't supposed to be necessary.

I've not had that problem with Backblaze. The best part of Backblaze to me is the ability to log in on their website and retrieve a single file or set of files. That's huge. Mozy did not offer that at the time (I don't know if they do now).
 
I'm in the same boat as many others here. Mozy has effectively fired me as a client by raising their rates a ridiculous amount on my two computers with 240GB of data.

Even thought I'll probably do a free trial with both companies, I'd love opinions from folks who have used both Backblaze and Carbonite:

Who has the most full-featured, more mac-like client? I've seen some comments about Carbonite drawing bursts of CPU during file scans, but I don't know you would avoid that... I suspect Backblaze does it to some degree as well. That doesn't concern me as much as being able to carefully (granularly) manage what is backed up, and easily restore single files or directories through the interface.

Web interface would be the next concern, I guess. I know Backblaze supports retrieval of individual files over the web... does Carbonite offer this?

Anyway- I'm eager to dump Mozy before my contract expires.
 
I think I am going to switch to Dolly Drive. They are new startup and I love that they are using cloud Time machine. Its $7.50 per month for 100GB and then you get 5 GB reward every month. It will take me few months to get to the space I need but once I hit that I dnt think u will be uploading more than 5GB per month.
 
Google docs

I just use google storage and stream my mpeg4 movies and my mp3's to my machines pretty cool.
 
I'm a Backblaze customer and have nothing but good things to say. Fast uploads, software looks like it's made for OS X, and a price you can't beat.
 
RebornKillah said:
I have been using Mozy for both my MP and MBP for a little over a year now. Luckily for me I have never had to use the restore feature, but I have been very impressed with the services. Have over 150GB uploaded to their servers between the two computers. The first backup takes several days (or weeks), but once it uploaded, each subsequent backup only updates files that have changed.

I highly recommend Mozy and for ~$5/mo., its pretty affordable.
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I've used it for a long time. they just sent me an email saying they are doing away with the the 5 a month unlimited and going to a tiered plan that is WAAAAYY more expensive. At the end of my subscription... bye bye Mozy.
 
jhmirage said:
I'm in the same boat as many others here. Mozy has effectively fired me as a client by raising their rates a ridiculous amount on my two computers with 240GB of data.

Even thought I'll probably do a free trial with both companies, I'd love opinions from folks who have used both Backblaze and Carbonite:

Who has the most full-featured, more mac-like client? I've seen some comments about Carbonite drawing bursts of CPU during file scans, but I don't know you would avoid that... I suspect Backblaze does it to some degree as well. That doesn't concern me as much as being able to carefully (granularly) manage what is backed up, and easily restore single files or directories through the interface.

Web interface would be the next concern, I guess. I know Backblaze supports retrieval of individual files over the web... does Carbonite offer this?

Anyway- I'm eager to dump Mozy before my contract expires.
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Carbonite SUCKS on a Mac. I've switched to backblaze so far so good.
 
I use Jungledisk. Very happy with it. I chose them over a year ago because I liked the fact that you only pay for the data you actually use. At the time, they were the only company with that type of pricing model. Not sure if others have changed since then.
 
I have used Mozy for a while and I will say everything works great EXCEPT it does not play well with libraries. So your Aperture and iPhoto libraries may not get restored properly.

Other than that, they can't be beat.
 
Does anyone knows?

"16. Why the 4GB file size limit?
Updated: Backblaze now backs up files as large as 9 GB. You can increase the default (4GB) in the Backblaze Settings Panel."

Will I be able to back up my iPhoto Library or not, since its 76GB and their Max is only 76GB?
 
Mozy has lost me as a customer too. I paid ~$100 for 2 years of "unlimited". Now the price after my first contract is over with will be ~$300. A 3x price increase.
 
Mozy Refund

Looks like Mozy will refund the unused portion if you paid for 1 or 2 years in advance: "Refunds on multi-period plans (i.e. annual and biennial plans) may be granted on a prorated basis for the unused portion of the period purchased, in whole month increments, and not including the current month."

http://mozy.com/payments_and_refunds/

tshort said:
Mozy has lost me as a customer too. I paid ~$100 for 2 years of "unlimited". Now the price after my first contract is over with will be ~$300. A 3x price increase.
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I've been with Backblaze for a year and love them. Excellent service. I'm storing about 750GB with them. No problems at all.


vinnie110 said:
One thing I have just come up against with BackBlaze and a major fail if you ask me.

When you upgraded your computer you will have to wipe your off site backup and start again from scratch. Yes you heard right, so it took 3 weeks or so to upload it all and now just because you have a new computer you are going to be left high a dry with no backup off site while you start over.

Come on thats just a joke.
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Actually, that's not correct. They address this in a FAQ (or somewhere on their support site). There's a file in one of the invisible root directories on your Mac that tracks everything. You have to grab that file and get it on to your new computer, which will then let you avoid having to re-upload everything.

It might be that the Migration app will move that file over for you, but I haven't tried it, so I don't know.

Edit: At least they used to have a way. I'm not finding it right now.
Edit Edit: They actually have a Transfer Backup State menu option, so it looks to be quite easy now. That's nice.

LagunaSol said:
This post today on the Backblaze blog should instill a sense of confidence:

http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/02/03/backblaze-is-committed-to-unlimited-backup/
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Sweet! I was actually wondering about that. So glad to hear they have no plans on limiting storage.
 
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I've recently had the same Mozy issue too, where they have doubled the price. Just to retrace the steps I went through before I made my choice. The best comparison article I found was this: http://www.macworld.com/article/142606/2009/09/online_backup.html – a year and a bit old but still seemed current software wise.

I opted for Crashplan and it's an absolute doddle to use. The interface is great and compared to Mozy it's amazing (Mozy gave me nothing but problems always dropping my selections etc). My 170GB upload onto their server is nearly done, and to answer someones earlier question, yes it also handles your onsite backup too, you set it to backup to 'folder' and choose make your selection (mine is on an external HD). You also have many other options (backing up to other peoples computers, letting them access your online storage space etc), they can send you a HD to put all of your initial upload onto (USA only) check out their site for more info.

So far I'm very impressed.
 
TimTheEnchanter said:
CrashPlan hands down.
(actually it's CrashPlan+ for the online service)

Did much research and testing of all of them and CrashPlan+ is easily the best.
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Another satisfied customer here. Used Jungledisk for years, but their software was not intelligent about handling things when I moved large volumes of files around, and would re-copy things. Not acceptable when I was paying by the MB. Their web interface was horrible too.

With crash plan I was able to do my initial backup saturating my 5Mb upload line for weeks, I can move things around and it realizes it before making duplicates, and their web client is simple for doing restores from anywhere. Plus its dirt cheap if you pay in advance. It almost seems too good to be true.
 
Transfering Backblaze to a new computer

vinnie110 said:
One thing I have just come up against with BackBlaze and a major fail if you ask me.

When you upgraded your computer you will have to wipe your off site backup and start again from scratch. Yes you heard right, so it took 3 weeks or so to upload it all and now just because you have a new computer you are going to be left high a dry with no backup off site while you start over.

Come on thats just a joke.
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I just upgraded from a MacBook with a 250 GB internal drive to an iMac with a 1 TB internal drive. First, I told Backblaze on the MacBook to pause backup and to resume only on my command. Then I used Migration Assistant to transfer everything from my MacBook's Time Machine disk to my new iMac. I then started Backblaze on the iMac and it worked fine. Last, I uninstalled Backblaze on the MacBook. Everything is working fine. Of course, my new iMac's hard disk now has much more stuff on it, so it will take a couple of weeks for Backblaze to upload all that, but after that I expect it will keep up my backup easily.

Backblaze offers UNLIMITED backup of my internal drive and of any external drives connected to it, which is something I intend to make full use of. For $50/year, I think that's a real bargain.

I've been using Backblaze for over a year and I'm delighted with it. I am recommending it to my friends and family.

Backblaze is not my only backup system. I also use Time Machine, SuperDuper, ChronoSync and Dropbox. I'm paranoid about backups.
 
whynot83706 said:
Does anyone knows?

"16. Why the 4GB file size limit?
Updated: Backblaze now backs up files as large as 9 GB. You can increase the default (4GB) in the Backblaze Settings Panel."

Will I be able to back up my iPhoto Library or not, since its 76GB and their Max is only 76GB?
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Did we get an answer to this question? I also have a very large Aperture library and was thinking that it was being backed up successfully. I'm using Mozy but having the same issue as everyone else - at the end of the month, my subscription effectively triples in price. So now I'm considering Backblaze and Sugarsync. I'm using Sugarsync right now for free (up to 2gb or something) but I think the costs are almost as high as Mozy for 120gb+ backups. Based on the responses on this post, I will also look into Crashplan.
 
fazworld said:
Did we get an answer to this question? I also have a very large Aperture library and was thinking that it was being backed up successfully. I'm using Mozy but having the same issue as everyone else - at the end of the month, my subscription effectively triples in price. So now I'm considering Backblaze and Sugarsync. I'm using Sugarsync right now for free (up to 2gb or something) but I think the costs are almost as high as Mozy for 120gb+ backups. Based on the responses on this post, I will also look into Crashplan.
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I'm not 100%, but I just logged into my Backblaze account online to see about restoring something from my iPhoto library. As you probably know, the iPhoto Library file is actually just a folder wrapped up as a package. On Backblaze, I can go into the iPhoto library and restore individual photos, so I'm pretty sure size doesn't matter for that library. If Aperture is the same way, then Backblaze should work fine.

On another note, I have 885GB backed up through Backblaze. Still only $5/month. :)
 
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