Free online backup for Mac OSX - Mozy update fixes issues
Published by on June 8th, 2007
I first wrote about my initial experience with Mozy’s online backup service here, and although I found it a very straightforward and pleasant experience, the Mac OSX version of their backup client simply wasn’t reliable. This week, they release version 0.5, and it’s great!
Something was amiss with the 0.4.x version of the Mac client as it would ignore automatic backup sets and also simply stop part way through the backup, failing completely on subsequent timed or manual backups. Mozy support stated they were aware of the problem and it would be fixed in the next version.
I have run the new version, 0.5, for a couple of days now and all seems well. All data has been backed up properly - and quite quickly I must say - and the automated incremental backups which I run in the early hours of the morning, seemed also to have run without error.
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5 Responses to “Free online backup for Mac OSX - Mozy update fixes issues”
June 8th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Woo.. nice one!
I’ve signed up (and.. er.. pimped the extra 256MB to some of my fellow Mac-using net pals :S) and will start choosing what delights to back up!
Better than a USB stick, I say… (well, harder to drop down the toilet).
Cheers
j
June 9th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
And thanks for using my signup code, James. So far I’ve got an additional 1.25Gig to play with in total now!
July 9th, 2007 at 9:32 am
Great to see Mozy finally has got their act together about supporting mac folk.
Another new one I’ve been trying out is Ewedrive.com and because they are UK based (which is what I really need) its much faster for me to use. They also don’t provide (or need) any software as backups are done using drag and drop.
I know drag and drop is not ideal for everyone as most people neither have the time or inclination to backup this way but for me it gives me flexibility to be selective about what I need to backup and what I don’t so I save time in backing up and money because I’m using less space.
Just an idle comparision I backed up using Mozy a couple of months ago and ended up storing something like 8GB with them but on Ewedrive managed to halve.
Anyhow if you are in the UK its worth checking them out.
Peter
July 13th, 2007 at 9:58 am
I found the Mozy service and the Mac OS software great and easy to use … before I signed up for the pay unlimited account. Since then, it stopped working !!! All my backups are in error state. No need to say that the support is helpless. I’m very disappointed about this service. Hopefuly I signed for 1 month, not 1 year.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:16 am
@John: Download the latest version of the client, 0.6 has just been released. Sounds like you might have the old 1.4.x server error message. Also, check your firewall is allowing Moxy client to get through - usually gets sorted automatically on install, but you never know.