Tech Talk

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 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. [...]

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 [...]