Filed under: Odds and ends, Bugs/Recalls
Mozy fixes issue that affected Time Machine / Time Capsule users
Users of the MozyHome and MozyPro online backup services who also use Apple's Time Machine and a Time Capsule for onsite backups were dismayed to find last week that their Time Machine backups were not working. A bug in version 1.4.1 of the Mozy software caused Time Machine backups to Time Capsules and other network drives to pause, and then freeze up. A user quoted on the Computerworld website last week noted that Time Machine would no longer mount his MacBook Pro's sparse bundle file while running Mozy offsite backups, and that he had to wipe the Time Machine backup in order to get the Time Machine / Time Capsule combination working again. The problem did not affect Mozy users who were backing up to a locally attached hard drive. Part of the issue was that Mozy was attempting to back up the large Time Machine sparse bundle files.
Engineers at Mozy's parent company, Decho, worked with Apple to gain resolution to the issue, and a fix was made available for download last Friday as version 1.4.3 of the Mac software for MozyHome and MozyPro.
[via Macworld and Computerworld]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Ryan S. said 11:57AM on 8-17-2009
Oi! I've been wondering why TM hasn't been able to back up! x_x Now I know why.
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Ryan S. said 11:58AM on 8-17-2009
... Strike that. I missed the part about it not affecting local drives! That's what I had, and it still had the issue. Now it's gone. Sure it didn't affect local ones too? x_x
Thwarko said 12:08PM on 8-17-2009
Mozy is crap.
Total. Complete. Crap.
They totally screwed up my Mac and couldn't care less.
DO NOT TRY OR BUY. YOU'LL BE VERY SORRY.
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Drew Scott said 12:11PM on 8-17-2009
Works fine for me ... couldn't be happier :)
Thwarko said 12:13PM on 8-17-2009
Mozy is crap.
Total. Complete. Crap.
They totally screwed up my Mac and couldn't care less.
DO NOT TRY OR BUY. YOU'LL BE VERY SORRY.
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Pete said 1:36PM on 8-17-2009
I installed the update and still couldn't get TM to work. I ended up erasing the drive and I'm now at hour 20 of my initial TM backup :(
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Mark Suman said 12:59PM on 8-17-2009
This bug existed in 1.4 as well. All users who use Time Capsule should upgrade to 1.4.3.
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Matt said 1:30PM on 8-17-2009
Thank you again, TUAW! I've been having this issue and I never would have guessed that Mozy was the culprit. For everything I like about having software update itself, it can also cause so many headaches.
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Jonathan Payne said 4:20AM on 8-18-2009
I, too, lost all my time machine backups when this happened. I then worked with their terrible (but very polite) support and still they never told me that 1.4.3 had been released and fixed this particular problem: that I had to find out for myself.
I downloaded it, installed it, was able to create time machine backups again over the network (so it seems like they really had fixed things), ran them for a couple of days, but woke up this morning to find both of them corrupted and failed in the same way as before. The one difference: I had a long, overnight Mozy backup running this time.
I agree that Mozy is crap. It cannot figure out how to use my full upstream bandwidth. It pauses and restarts constantly and pegs my CPUs when it starts a backup. iDrive uses rsync, so it's the bee's knees. As soon as they fix their memory footprint issues I am switch away from Mozy.
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Michael said 1:18PM on 8-18-2009
Count me among the people who until recently loved mozy. After having my time machine backups destroyed, and then my mozy backups corrupted by having all my mozy local settings get destroyed, i've had enough of this crap.
Funny enough, I actually find backing up my vista machine way easier.
Vista image to an external drive, then scheduled xcopy's to a NAS. simple and effective.
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