Comments on: Mozy: Free online backup for Mac http://www.the8thsign.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the8thsign.com%2F2007%2F04%2F27%2Fmozy-free-online-backup-for-mac%2F%23comment-&seed_title=Mozy%3A+Free+online+backup+for+Mac The personal weblog of Alec Peden Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:27:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Bob http://www.the8thsign.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the8thsign.com%2F2007%2F04%2F27%2Fmozy-free-online-backup-for-mac%2F%23comment-26901&seed_title=Mozy%3A+Free+online+backup+for+Mac#comment-26901 Bob Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:53:55 +0000 http://www.the8thsign.com/2007/04/27/mozy-free-online-backup-for-mac/#comment-26901 Mozy rate limits your upload speeds as well. It's totally f*&king worthless for anything more than a couple of gigs, and even that will take you several days to upload. This little tidbit of information is not mentioned in their FAQ anywhere. Mozy has been such a disappointment. Mozy rate limits your upload speeds as well. It’s totally f*&king worthless for anything more than a couple of gigs, and even that will take you several days to upload. This little tidbit of information is not mentioned in their FAQ anywhere.

Mozy has been such a disappointment.

]]> By: ari http://www.the8thsign.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the8thsign.com%2F2007%2F04%2F27%2Fmozy-free-online-backup-for-mac%2F%23comment-21883&seed_title=Mozy%3A+Free+online+backup+for+Mac#comment-21883 ari Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:11:26 +0000 http://www.the8thsign.com/2007/04/27/mozy-free-online-backup-for-mac/#comment-21883 Folks, Mozy absolutely sucks for anything more significant than an individual file or folder restore on the same system you are running the mozy client on. Do not trust them to be able to to restore an entire system or a large dataset over the web. Perhaps if you pay the for the DVD service you can get your data back, but their service is really flawed when it comes to a serious backup need or system-level restore. I lost my laptop hard drive on Tuesda morning, and thought my backups through Mozy would save me. Not so fast. I still might be ok, but it's been painful. 1. The way it works is that they break up your fileset into small chunks (encrypted), and spread it out over multiple servers for security. While this sounds like a smart architecture, it took them over 12 hours to rebuild a 23 gb fileset. I'm not going to draw conclusions about their setup or technology, but this is not an acceptable scenario, nor something they disclose up front. 2. I'm on a 10+mbps broadband connection and regularly get 2-3mbps download speeds. The best I got from Mozy was a peak of 700kbps and an average of around 300. This means it took an entire day to download the restore archive, which still failed due to #3. 3. Their system is flawed in that it removed the restore archive from it's location before download was complete. This means I'm sitting here with 22 GB of a 23 GB archive, and have to start over! Yes, I used a download manager. The problem is the file on their server is gone, not that my connection was interrupted. So now I have 3 choices, to start over and risk the same result, pay for the DVD and incur more cost and lost time, or try the restore again but manually break it into folder-level chunks to ensure I can download the restore files as much smaller archives. All of which mean I lose another 2+ days of productivity and incur wasted time/costs. I'll post this on my blog also... Folks, Mozy absolutely sucks for anything more significant than an individual file or folder restore on the same system you are running the mozy client on. Do not trust them to be able to to restore an entire system or a large dataset over the web. Perhaps if you pay the for the DVD service you can get your data back, but their service is really flawed when it comes to a serious backup need or system-level restore. I lost my laptop hard drive on Tuesda morning, and thought my backups through Mozy would save me. Not so fast. I still might be ok, but it’s been painful.
1. The way it works is that they break up your fileset into small chunks (encrypted), and spread it out over multiple servers for security. While this sounds like a smart architecture, it took them over 12 hours to rebuild a 23 gb fileset. I’m not going to draw conclusions about their setup or technology, but this is not an acceptable scenario, nor something they disclose up front.
2. I’m on a 10+mbps broadband connection and regularly get 2-3mbps download speeds. The best I got from Mozy was a peak of 700kbps and an average of around 300. This means it took an entire day to download the restore archive, which still failed due to #3.
3. Their system is flawed in that it removed the restore archive from it’s location before download was complete. This means I’m sitting here with 22 GB of a 23 GB archive, and have to start over! Yes, I used a download manager. The problem is the file on their server is gone, not that my connection was interrupted.
So now I have 3 choices, to start over and risk the same result, pay for the DVD and incur more cost and lost time, or try the restore again but manually break it into folder-level chunks to ensure I can download the restore files as much smaller archives. All of which mean I lose another 2+ days of productivity and incur wasted time/costs. I’ll post this on my blog also…

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