I’ve been a Mozy fan and user for a couple of years and had a paid subscription, at least until I recently cancelled it. At some point my backups stopped working. My tech support experience didn’t go well. While working on the issue I was backing things up to Amazon S3 (via Jungle Disk). After all the files were backed up to S3 and the Mozy issue remained unresolved so I cancelled the subscription. I will admit I didn’t dedicate a great deal of time to the problem although I [...] 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 »
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 »
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 »
The OS Quest Trail Log #2
It’s only been four days since my last log entry but I want to get on a weekly cycle with these and weekends seem to be the best time to do it. So here goes… Google Apps I continue to use Google Apps and like it. Really all I use it for is email, but it’s allowed me to consolidate all my email addresses into one mailbox for delivery. I finally got the hang of using search and labels (aka tags) rather than folders and it makes things much quicker [...] Read the rest »
MacMozy Beta Updated to 0.6.2.0
Mozy has updated their Mozy Mac beta software to version 0.6.2.0. Mozy has a list of bug fixes that are in this version and they’ve expanded the scheduling options to detect how busy the Mac is and to not back up if it’s above the threshold that you’ve set. You can also not get alerted if a backup hasn’t occurred in a set number of days. I installed the software and did a manual backup without incident. The Mozy software has been very reliable for me although I don’t have [...] Read the rest »