Dear Mozy, First let me say how thrilled I was when I first learned about you and your online backup services, I especially liked the part where I could and expand it with 0.5GB for each friend I referred – a great way to start out with your service. I also liked your layout and simplicity – both on the website and in the Mac client. It just seemed to work well, very easy and flawless. It didn’t take me long before I was so hooked on you, that I purchased a 1 month subscription at $5 to get unlimited backup space and really test out your service before I made a final commitment to you as my offsite backup. It took me less than 20 hours to backup my 55GB which was one of the main things I wanted to backup offsite, along with other minor data. A reasonable speed, considering that subsequent backups, after the initial backup, would be much faster since they are incremental. At this time I had already referred several friends, co-workers and blog readers to you,.

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Backup for Mac 2.13.8. Fixed Issues. Fixed an issue that installation reported failure on Mac OS X 10.11. Fixed an issue that 'Network Filter' button doesn't work. Fixed an issue that Advanced backup options doesn't work. Backup for Mac 2.13.7. Fixed Issues. Fixed an issue that caused the backup software to make the computer run slower. I've used carbonite (great on PC, horrible on mac), and currently use Mozy. I haven't tried backblaze - couldn't find on their site whether they have a maximum storage or not. Right now I've got about 300GB of pictures in my aperture library I backup online, so space is a priority. Nov 20, 2018  Use our Ask the Community feature to find the answers you are looking for. Loading We are unable to find anything that matches what you are looking for, try creating a new post instead.

Then, for some reason, you decided to let me down. I knew that, before I was able to trust you completely as my offsite backup service, I would need to do a successful restore – and that’s the one area where you really let me down. Using the in-client restore method meant I had to restore all 55GB in one stretch, there’s no way to resume a restore. Since my Aperture 3 photo library is likely to grow over time, this could end up becoming maybe 100GB in a year or two.

That’s a lot of data to download in one stretch. I still haven’t decided on a “library structure” where I could divide my Aperture 3 library into smaller libraries, but I don’t want to limit myself into smaller libraries because my backup service doesn’t do a good enough job at the restore part. No I didn’t send this to Mozy. I told them I was working on a blog post on how to use Mozy for Aperture 3 backup but as it turnes out, their service wasn’t up for it.

Mozy is one of those companies that I actually like and really wanted to use, but they failed me in one area where it’s not acceptable. If you have a Flickr PRO account (they cost almost nothing!), you can upload your photos to Flickr in large sizes and just have privacy settings set to only you can view them. But I don’t think Flickr accept RAW images, so you would have to upload them as JPG.

I recently signed up for Mozy as well and have my Aperture 3 library backed up. I am now nervous based on your post.

One thing I will mention that may solve this issue, is to use a “referenced” library rather than a “managed” library. A referenced library is nothing more than a folder structure with a much smaller “managed” part (the database).

I would think that Mozy could handle that just fine I also recently moved from a referenced to managed library, now I’m thinking I’d better switch back to make sure my raw files are backed up for easy restore. Hi Klaus, I’m the author of Arq. Amazon just announced a 33% cheaper storage option ($.10/GB per month), so storing your 55GB library in S3 would be about $5.50/month. Using S3 has some other benefits too: uploads and downloads are very fast, you maintain control over your data (it stays in your S3 account, encrypted), and Amazon is unlikely to go out of business soon (large public company). Also, Arq correctly backs up and restores all Mac “metadata” (all the bits of data aside from the actual file contents). CrashPlan restores most of it, but not all.

Specifically, CrashPlan doesn’t restore hardlinks correctly (so it can’t backup/restore Time Machine backups correctly, for instance). CrashPlan also doesn’t restore “Finder flags” correctly; important “Finder flags” include the “hide the filename extension” bit, and the “bundle” bit (makes your Aperture library look like a single file in the Finder).

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Here’s more info on the restore results: Also, Arq is a Mac-native app (not a Java app like CrashPlan) so it has the Mac look-and-feel you’d expect. You can drag-and-drop from your backup to the Finder to immediately begin restoring, for example.

And Arq will wait patiently during restore if your network connection goes away, or you switch networks, or your computer goes to sleep; it resumes when the network comes back. I hope you give it a try! It has a 30-day trial, and here’s a coupon for 20% off an Arq license through end of June 2010 if you (or your readers) decide to buy. Hi Stefan – thanks for your long and resourceful comment 🙂 I did take a look at Arq but I found the S3 pricing to be quite confusing and I wasn’t too fancy about trusting my data with what would probably be a single developer (you?) and his ability to “keep up the good work”, compared to a team of developers with e.g. I’m not saying you’re going to abandon the project, but as a Mac user, you surely have also experienced great software being abandoned 🙂 VisualHub, CocoaMySQL, iClip etc The other thing is “trust”, which is probably as important as the actual backup.

I don’t know you and I haven’t read anything to go AGAINST you. I haven’t read much to be honest, but what I did come across, was only positive – but the same goes for CrashPlan (especially when compared to Mozy). To be honest, I’m not worried about CrashPlan shutting down their datacentre etc. I consider my online backup to be “last line of defense”, so if the company shuts down, oh well, I find another and do the backup there. Chances of my Mac drive crashing while my two external backups crashes too (TimeMachine and SuperDuper) – and the online backup company shutting down at the same time – well, very little 🙂 As for restoring with CrashPlan. I did find that when restoring my Aperture library bundle, that it did in fact arrive as a bundle and not as a folder. Maybe CrashPlan changed something since you tested?

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More info on supported metadata with CrashPlan on Mac: I know that one shouldn’t hold back with online backup whether it’s $5 or $10 a month, both are cheap compared to losing your data, but with S3 I feel that I don’t know exactly what my total cost will be. Yes I might be able to estimate initial backup transfer and storage needed, but after that, I find it a bit confusing as to how much space I will actually need (I guess this depends on versions?) and the data transfer needed as well. Last, do you have a link to that 33% cheaper storage announcement? I would love to read more and also find out if it applies to Europe. Sorry for the long reply. I appreciate you coming here and recommending your product, though 🙂.

Hi Stefan, I just finished reading your two posts and I don’t think you’re wrong in your statements and/or I’m not going to try to prove you wrong, cause I have no where near that kind of knowledge as you do 🙂 I do believe, however, that CrashPlan will be just fine for most backup purposes except for a “full system backup/restore”, because of the metadata issues. As to backing up Aperture/iPhoto library, I don’t think CrashPlan will be a problem, as well as backing up Evernote folder, Address Book, Calendars etc. I don’t question your level of communication – so far it’s been awesome (here, your blog and twitter). So, today I did try to sign up with S3 and I uploaded 1.5GB Aperture TEST library while at work. I came home and tried to restore and found it to go pretty slow at less than 100kb/s, only 1/10th of what my connection is capable of downloading.

So not better than CP. I can’t comment on upload speeds as both S3 and CP are able to take whatever I throw at them with our limited upload speeds here in Malta (1mbit usually). Unfortunately – and this is big one I’m afraid – I don’t see any way you could possible offer your customers to buy/rent an external drive with their backup data to have shipped to them. CP does this as reasonable prices if you need to restore soooo many GB’s that it would take a long time over the Internet.

This is a good “backup to the backup”, I think. Last, I kinda miss a “pause” button in your application. I also miss a few more options as to throttling network send limit, like to throttle between certain hours of the day and/or when user is active or not active (your ‘interactively’ option might work here). It’s possible the answer to this question is on your blog: But is it possible to pause a restore and resume it later?

Thanks for trying it! П™‚ A pause feature is pretty high priority on the product roadmap. The “automatic transfer rate” in the preferences will slow down uploads when you’re using your network connection. You can also set a fixed transfer rate (“throttle”). Support for AWS Import/Export is also coming: When Arq supports AWS Import/Export you’ll be able to back up using Arq to a USB drive and send it to Amazon, to speed up your initial backup. Similarly, you’ll be able to send a drive to Amazon and they’ll send it back with your backup data for rapid restoring. Sounds good with the pause button – and also the S3 external drive backup/restore, that’s something I believe could be important to many.

How about pausing a restore, that’s not currently possible? Could you explain a bit more on the automatic transfer rate. Now a days the connection is used pretty much all the time. If not for surf then for streaming, does that mean Arq will upload slowly because the connection is used prett much all the time? Does Arq test the upload speed to have an idea what maximum is, in order to optimize the “automatic transfer rate”? Thanks 🙂 Ps. Any idea when new features will be released or is that a secret?

Pausing a restore isn’t currently possible. You’re the first to ask for that. I’ll put it on the list. The automatic transfer rate works like this: if download traffic becomes a significant part of overall (up and down) traffic, Arq throttles back its upload rate.

Depending on the shape of the download traffic, Arq may ramp back up to full upload speed fairly quickly or more slowly, or not at all for a while if download rate is really heavy. Also it only works according to network throughput on your computer, so if you’re sharing a network connection with others, it’d be more polite to set a fixed transfer rate. Regarding timing of new features: I don’t want to make any promises I can’t keep! But I’m working hard on a bunch of Arq features.

Hi online backup, I removed your link for the following reasons: 1) Apparently you missed the “USE A REAL NAME”-red text above this comment field, and your name is not “online backup”. 2) It looks like a big coincidence that you put those words, “online backup” and link to a site that deals with exactly that (basing your SEO on linkbacks from blog comments is not going to get you very far). 3) If the two points above are true, then it’s a very cheesy attempt on advertisement 🙂 But feel free to if you’d like to purchase some ad spots or a pay me to review your backup site. Klaus @ TechPatio recently posted Jack. I had use quite a lot of remote backup softwares and i still think that mozy is good as it is a set and forget program and it just backup ur files constantly which i need. On the part of restoring 50-100 gb files i agree that its slightly slower than some other products but if u factor in the non negligible cpu usage when it is doing a backup i think its worth it p.s. If u need promotional codes, u can visit my site to check out for the latest promo there is a $15 off mozyhome unlimited promo going on now if u sign a 2 year plan and this gives u a total of 6 months free mozy unlimited Regards, Ben.

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The online backup service became generally available on Thursday after a long beta test and the acquisition of its creator. MozyHome lets consumers back up the data on their desktops and laptops to a remote data center, then recover it later if their systems crash. EMC took over the service when it bought Berkeley Data Systems last October. The company, in Salt Lake City, is now called Mozy and is part of EMC's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division.

MozyHome is already commercially available for PCs. Berkeley introduced a Mac version last April that had remained in beta since then, though both Berkeley and Mozy charged US$4.95 per month for unlimited storage with the service. Mozy claims MozyHome for Mac is the only unlimited online backup service for Macs.

It's part of parent EMC's move into the consumer space with a variety of storage options. Last month EMC agreed to buy consumer and small-business drive maker Iomega for $213 million. Though PC users have had many options for online backup, Mac users have been left behind. Carbonite says it will have a Mac version of its system in the middle of this year, and Itronis Technologies says on its Web site that it will extend its eSureIT backup service to Macs and Linux computers, but gives no date. With MozyHome, users can upload as much as 2G bytes of any type of content for free, with no expiration date, according to EMC. For unlimited capacity, the service still costs $4.95 per month. MozyHome encrypts the files with 448-bit Blowfish encryption and transfers them via a 128-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection.

After files are first uploaded, MozyHome does incremental backups of changes made since the last upload, which takes less time, the company said. It can carry out new backups at scheduled times.

In addition to the most recent backup, the service keeps 30 days' worth of older versions of files. To recover the data, users can download it from the Mozy Web site, use the Mozy client software or order a set of DVDs from Mozy.

Later this year, Mozy will extend Mac support to and, which are backup services designed for businesses, the company said. Mozy claims more than 700,000 users worldwide, including 20,000 businesses. It is backing up more than 7.5 petabytes of data across multiple data centers, the company said.

More than 43,000 people participated in the Mac beta test, according to Mozy.