Tech Talk

VMware Data Recovery is a new feature introduced with vSphere 4 which attempts to be a full-featured backup solution for the ESX lineup.  There are some limitations to the software that limit it more towards small to medium business – not really enterprise customers, however, I’d consider my company a small enterprise user and we [...]

Mozy has released an incremental update to address the Time Machine conflict and issues that version 1.4 introduced.  The update, labeled 1.4.3, was released early today, according to ComputerWorld.  I have installed the update and it did immediately fix the problems with my Time Machine backups.  My initial backup is running along at a very [...]

Update: Mozy has released an update to fix this issue.
File this under the “why’s that happening” category…  About a week ago, I noticed that my MacBook Pro’s Time Machine stopped working.  It has been working flawlessly to an external drive hosted on my iMac at home, but I wanted something to back it up when [...]

I purchased and installed Mozy Home on my MacBook Pro in addition to the iMac at home.  One thing different for the initial backup this time around is my upstream connection.  I’m currently using an outside connection from work which a screaming fast upstream and I can tell you, Mozy is cruising along much better [...]

I setup CrashPlan for a friend overnight and the software really lives up to its advertising.  The software is really easy to install and registration is straight forward.  After install, you select what data to backup – which is less robust than Mozy’s default filters – but its easy enough to point to her user [...]

One month and two days ago, I posted about my experience with online backup solution Mozy.  I’d tried the product once before and been disappointed with the backup speeds, and so I abandoned it, only to begin again last month.  After a month of backing up, I’ve almost got my initial 60GB plus a month’s [...]

Its been a couple weeks now since I’ve written a Mozy backup status update.  We have progressed quite a ways in the backup process.  I have interrupted the backups almost every evening once I get home because it was saturating my upstream connection and degrading my internet performance while I was trying to use it. [...]

So, its been exactly a week since I started my Mozy backup.  I have now progressed to completion of approximately 20GB of my data backed up.  My iMac froze (yes, it does happen…) one day and I had to restart it when I got home from work, but the backup kicked off again.  So, 20GB [...]

Since posting about Backblaze, I got some very good comments about Mozy.  They have also not been sitting idle and they’ve added a few features to the service.  One of those new feature is the ability to get your restore on external media shipped to you, a key differentiator to Backblaze, I said earlier.   The [...]

I have been testing various online backup solutions for home.  I really like the peer to peer backup solution , though I’ve yet to take up my buddy’s offer to host my backup drive at his house…  Speaking of, I guess I need a larger backup drive.  So, in the meantime, I’ve been looking at [...]