I recently received the following e-mail from Mozy concerning a change to their Mac product coming on Wednesday. Luckily it doesn’t affect me since I don’t use the discontinued features. This wasn’t totally unexpected as it brings it in line with the capabilities of the Windows version. MozyHome Customer, We recently announced the addition of MozyPro for Mac to the Mozy family. MozyPro for Mac builds upon MozyHome for Mac and offers additional business features, including Admin Console management, 24/7 phone support, and official support for network drives and Mac [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy 1.0 Released
Mozy’s Mac client has left beta and is now an official 1.0 release. I’ve used the paid Mozy service since September and have been relatively happy with it. There were a few rough spots, like the last beta release (version 0.9.4) which failed to successfully complete a backup, forcing me to roll back to the previous release. But I’ve installed MacMozy 1.0 and it’s been running fine and completing backups. I currently backup over 120,000 files totaling over 3GB. My only real complaint is that selecting files for restore is [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy 0.8.0.0 Update Released
Mozy has released an update to their MacMozy software, bringing it to version 0.8.0.0. The update was released Oct. 25th and I’ve been running it for a little over a week. I updated both the free account to back up my MacBook along with the unlimited account to backup my main iMac. While I hadn’t had any problems since updated to Leopard (MacMozy 0.7.0.0 or higher is needed for Leopard) I immediately started getting ConnectionError1 during my first backups after upgrading on my iMac. (My MacBook backups are small and [...] Read the rest »
Leopard & MacMozy Backup
After getting Leopard set up and most software installed it was time to set up Mozy again. I’m backing up about 30GB to Mozy and if all the files had to be sent again it would take days at my upload speed. Even though I was doing a complete re-install of everything I’d be restoring the bulk of my data to the same locations and they should appear unchanged to Mozy. Some data would be unchanged but be in new locations. Since I was re-installing all software the settings would [...] Read the rest »
Ready For OS X 10.5 Leopard?
[Last updated: Nov. 1st] [Oct. 29th: Now includes a sentence about my experience when using the app. Keep in mind I did fresh installs of everything and restored data.] It’s time to start going through my apps and seeing which are ready for OS X 10.5 Leopard and which aren’t. I’ll start with my most used and favorite apps. I’ll start with the assumption that the Apple apps in iLife ’08 and iWork ’08 along with Aperture 1.5 will work with Leopard either in their current form or with updates [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy Beta Updated to v0.7.0.0
The MacMozy Beta software was recently updated to v0.7.0.0. Mozy is the online backup service and MacMozy is the Mac client that I use. The Mozy website doesn’t list what changes are included in this version and there aren’t any obvious changes. So, I’m assuming it was bug fixes and/or performance enhancements. After updating the Mozy client the backup software would report connection errors (Connectionerror2) each time it tried to do a backup. Once I rebooted my Mac the errors went away and the backups resumed working. I didn’t have [...] Read the rest »
10 Favorite Macs Apps (that I don’t use enough)
Yesterday I wrote about my 10 Most Used Mac Apps according to Wakoopa. I was a little surprised by some of the apps that showed up on the list and a few apps I really like didn’t show up in the top 10. So these are the apps I wished were on, or expected to show up in, the top 10 list. In reverse order this time. 10. Quicken for Mac (aff) – I wouldn’t call this a favorite. It came with my first Mini so I used it. I [...] Read the rest »
Mozy Backup – All In
About 10 days ago I took the plunge and subscribed to the full (Unlimited) version of Mozy Online Backup. Since I’m using it for my iMac I’m using the MacMozy software. MacMozy was 100% reliable for the entire month of September and the software seems about ready to leave beta (my opinion, no release date from Mozy). All my test restores have also been perfect. I signed up for a one-year subscription to save a little money. If I cancel Mozy will refund a pro-rated amount (based on the full [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy Beta Updated to v0.6.2.4
Mozy updated their Mac Backup beta software to version 0.6.2.4. There’s no information on the changes in this release but the previous release (v0.6.2.2) was a step back for me so I went for it. Version 0.6.2.2 had run OK since my previous problems until today when the problems returned. At 97.5% the backup would hang (regardless of size), the log would indicate “unable to connect to the backup server” and the backup would seem to end (no messages logged for 30 minutes). So I installed the latest upgrade. Unlike [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy Beta Updated to v0.6.2.2
Updated 8/28: See section in red block. Mozy released MacMozy 0.6.2.2 (23015), their online backup software for the Mac which is still in beta. This release was a reminder to me about the downside of beta software. I upgraded both my iMac and my Macbook. The MacBook upgrade went relatively well. I’d describe it as quirky but problem free. My Macbook backup is very small at 150MB with few changes between backups. My iMac upgrade was quirky and then became problematic. Both Macs – Quirky I downloaded and installed the [...] Read the rest »
