I was thinking the same thing.
I have about 160GB of photos, music and videos that I want to back up.
Probably take a year to make a backup!
Around 15 days @ 125kb/s.
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Around 15 days @ 125kb/s.
And what makes you think that these guys will have a backup of your backup in case their storgae goes down.
This thing is WOM/WOT. You're better off renting space in a bank vault
Again https://mozy.com/support/faq
RTFA. Or better yet here is the response from their CEO when I asked the question on arstech.
Let's say 20 (assuming 2 coasters). That's about $5 these days (and I'm talking Sony's). Double that for some extra protection and I'm $50 ahead in 1 year
And if you have a DOA corrupted data file when you restore? Obviously you've never run across disks that burn and verify perfectly fine yet the data is corrupt on the disk itself.
And if you can get 20 SL DVD's for $5 your likelihood of data corruption increases due to really crappy quality.
well i just set everything up. just a little over a gig that i want to backup at this point. i can't see transfering 55gigs of music at this point. if i ever need more than the two gigs though i think 5/month isn't too bad at all.
Here's hoping competition goads Apple into improving the anemic .Mac.
I find .Mac provides only the barest value and I'm only hanging with it until the end of my subscription as I need remote web email and don't like the privacy concessions made to the likes of Google.
If Apple wants to keep my buck, it can throw in more online storage and better, secure backups for starters.
I find .Mac provides only the barest value and I'm only hanging with it until the end of my subscription as I need remote web email and don't like the privacy concessions made to the likes of Google.
If Apple wants to keep my buck, it can throw in more online storage and better, secure backups for starters.
I just subscribed as an unlimited user... Let's see how long it will take to backup 57.3GB (iTunes mostly), plus some pictures. Upload rate is 48-52KB/s
I think it will take a bit longer for 160GB at 125Kbps.I was thinking the same thing.
I have about 160GB of photos, music and videos that I want to back up.
Probably take a year to make a backup!
More like 118 days, or 3 months, not counting handshaking losses for the initial backup.
I got in on Mac Mozy during the non-public Beta and its coming along quickly. I get upload speeds of 500-600KBps most days. I currently have roughly 80GB backed up.
Good service. I used it on my PC and when I switched to Mac, I emailed them on a whim asking if they had a Mac version in the works. They said yes and invited me into the closed beta.
--Aaron
Good service. I used it on my PC and when I switched to Mac, I emailed them on a whim asking if they had a Mac version in the works. They said yes and invited me into the closed beta.
--Aaron
I don't think everyone is getting the speeds they think they are.....my client says 1024kb/s which is right for my connection but looking at istat for the interface it says its only going at 133kb/s
EDIT: Not only that but my transfer just failed!
EDIT: Not only that but my transfer just failed!
Have folks *really* tested Mozy? I currently use Backjack for offline backup. Not cheap, but it works great, with excellent support as well. I just tried Mozy, and 2 major issues are:
1) If files are added to a currently backed up folder, the new files are NOT backed up. This has been acknowledged by Mozy and they state they've identified the problem. But that's pretty major!
2) I tried a restore to confirm that works. Restored a 92 MB .mp4 file. Although the file appeared to restore fine, it did NOT work! I got an error in Quicktime saying it could not play the file. The original plays fine. Obviously, backups are only as reliable as the ability to fully restore the files.
I hope they work out the kinks... seems to be a good user interface, but doesn't seem ready for prime time yet...
1) If files are added to a currently backed up folder, the new files are NOT backed up. This has been acknowledged by Mozy and they state they've identified the problem. But that's pretty major!
2) I tried a restore to confirm that works. Restored a 92 MB .mp4 file. Although the file appeared to restore fine, it did NOT work! I got an error in Quicktime saying it could not play the file. The original plays fine. Obviously, backups are only as reliable as the ability to fully restore the files.
I hope they work out the kinks... seems to be a good user interface, but doesn't seem ready for prime time yet...
For now, since it's a slow process to upload. I'll just upload my Photos which are 7GBs. Then shall come iTunes at 55GB...
Maybe a week, maybe a year, maybe five years...
It's not a matter of *if* a hard drive will fail, but *when*.
...and even if most of them last five years, the particular one that you bought may last five weeks or five months.
There's also the possibility of user error or a software error reformatting the drive or wiping out the data.
Personally, I keep 3 copies of each backup. One on an external drive that's online, a second on a RAID-5 NAS box that's normally offline, and a third on an external drive that I keep at the office.
The online copy protects from user errors and failure of the spindle that the files live on, and since it's online the backups can be nightly, hourly or whatever.
The RAID-5 box comes online once a month for longer term storage (part of the end-of-month balance checkbook, pay off MasterCard balance task).
The office drive comes in every few months for the latest full backups from the RAID-5.
Interesting that Mozy solves most of these problems - although the 500 GB in my lossless CD library would probably take a few weeks or more to get in synch. (After it is in synch, though, the bandwidth to keep it in synch with new CD purchases would be more than adequate.)
Be real - no point in saving all your porn on Mozy, you can always download it again. Plus, the new stuff will probably be in HD with multiple viewing angles - much more fun.
Unless it's kiddie porn or snuff-stuff - in that case I hope they find you sooner rather than later. Really, what is on your hard drive that you think that the NSA and FBI would be interested?
And, by the way, since you mentioned their acronyms they've already started an in-depth scan of your drives.... Your doorbell will be ringing about...now!
(see my sig)
Update
Well here's an update from me:
I've been uploading about 44GB of data since I started the thread last week. It now has just over 20GB left to do. I've had the backup running day and light with the exception of possibly a few hours where I needed the upload bandwidth for something else (and when I was transporting my pb). I'm getting speeds around 600Kb/s - 900Kb/s.
The backup has lost connection with the server about 3 or 4 times now, but a quick restart solves that problem and it just picks up where it left off.
My time left till completion jumps from 4 days to 6 days.
So far I'm pleased with the service. Sure its taking a long time but the software is no resource hog and happily does its thing in the background. It'll be good to see how well the system works once its all done. Have high hopes!
Well here's an update from me:
I've been uploading about 44GB of data since I started the thread last week. It now has just over 20GB left to do. I've had the backup running day and light with the exception of possibly a few hours where I needed the upload bandwidth for something else (and when I was transporting my pb). I'm getting speeds around 600Kb/s - 900Kb/s.
The backup has lost connection with the server about 3 or 4 times now, but a quick restart solves that problem and it just picks up where it left off.
My time left till completion jumps from 4 days to 6 days.
So far I'm pleased with the service. Sure its taking a long time but the software is no resource hog and happily does its thing in the background. It'll be good to see how well the system works once its all done. Have high hopes!
I've had an issue with the mozy client over the last few days giving me 'connectionerror0'
Mozy say there is a new mac client out to solve this issue:
http://mozy.com/downloads/Mozy-0.4.1.4.dmg
Oh how i wish they would stop giving me windows instructions when i clearly say i have a mac
Anyone else noticed that the clients claimed speed is not the actual speed?
Mozy say there is a new mac client out to solve this issue:
http://mozy.com/downloads/Mozy-0.4.1.4.dmg
Oh how i wish they would stop giving me windows instructions when i clearly say i have a mac
Anyone else noticed that the clients claimed speed is not the actual speed?
Yes! My uploads are restricted to 256 kbps or 30 kB/s. However, the client shows an upload speed of 250 kb/s. It transfers data at around 27-28 kB/s, though.
I'm pretty sure it is right, it just depends on when you measure the speed. I'm using menumeters to track my upload speed, but it's only set to refresh every 0.5 seconds or so. If the measurement increment is different than the one the Mozy client uses, its likely to be different all the time right?
Errrrr.....well mozy has a fairly constant figure.....720-750kb/s and my interface monitor 120-130kb/s. I somehow dont think this is to do with measurement speed.
Found a bug!
I thought it would be wise to resurrect this thread.
I had happily uploaded 46GB worth of data a few weeks ago, when I started the thread. On Monday, however, I found that Mozy was uploading everything again. A bit confused I went to my online account and found that my entire backup had disappeared and that it was starting a new backup again.
I contacted Mozy Support and they were quite surprised. They're now checking my logs for what could have caused the problem and are going to attempt to fix it.
So now I'm back to the 6 days to go thing...
I thought it would be wise to resurrect this thread.
I had happily uploaded 46GB worth of data a few weeks ago, when I started the thread. On Monday, however, I found that Mozy was uploading everything again. A bit confused I went to my online account and found that my entire backup had disappeared and that it was starting a new backup again.
I contacted Mozy Support and they were quite surprised. They're now checking my logs for what could have caused the problem and are going to attempt to fix it.
So now I'm back to the 6 days to go thing...
I've gone through the FAQ on the Mozy site, but i can't find information about the details of the backup. Firstly, what does the 30 day archive mean? And also, does it just mirror the backup set's contents at that moment in time, and erase the other stuff? Or does it just keep adding to it?
I'm backing up my Home folder. 16 GB, it's already 45% done, around 1.2 mb/sec
I'm backing up my Home folder. 16 GB, it's already 45% done, around 1.2 mb/sec
There are so many other providers besides Mozy. While speaking of Online Backup, comparison is important. I think nobody want's to pay more for the same product.
I found my current Backup provider here:
Online Backup Guide - Top 10
Reviewed by prices, storage capacity and reliability.
I found my current Backup provider here:
Online Backup Guide - Top 10
Reviewed by prices, storage capacity and reliability.
i could be wrong about you Vicky80, but you only have 1 post, the wording is rather generic, and you'd rather point to a blog post than just say who your current Backup provider is... are you a spammer?
i'd love to be proven wrong.
