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 worth of changes backed up – well, by the time I get home today anyways, it should be done.
As I’ve chronicled, I think the initial backup is the biggest challenge for all online backup solutions, Mozy included. My experience taking one month really isn’t that bad given a relatively slow upstream connection and 60GB plus of data to backup. The process was relatively easy, though I needed to throttle the bandwidth to keep my Internet connection usable while I was at home. Thanks to a comment on an earlier post, I was able to find that very hidden setting in the Mozy client.