Mozy 2.0 for Mac is faster, more Mac-like

Have you all looked at Crashplan? Supports multiple local backup locations for free and you can pay for their off-site Crash Plan Central service ($5/month unlimited).

You can backup up across your different computers or friend's computers via internet (can I backup to you if you backup to me) - all data is encrypted so you can't see each other's data. Cool if you want your offsite backup in town for easy recovery

Crashplan also supports bit changes, not entire file changes, very efficient.

I'm dumping Backblaze for Crashplan after my subscription ends.

I personally dislike Mozy. I only use and only recommend Backblaze.

2.0 is an interesting one. I've been using Mozy right back since beta a good 4 years ago, back with they were owned by Berkeley Data Systems.

Version 2.0 makes the whole thing more mac like, and a whole lot simpler to configure for the average joe, but as a hardcore user who has pretty complicated backup sets, it certainly takes away a whole bunch of the configuration options i had before, which is a huge negative.

Coupled with a bug that it segfaults the moment it tries to backup my iPhoto 11 library (which their dev team is currently working with me to resolve in a new build), i've stuck with 1.8 for now.

I just hope they give me back the old filesystem browser type interface which they had in 1.8, even if its only as an option.

That or it'll be time to get hardcore into SQLite and produce my backup set manually.

can you run it as well as having your mac go to sleep? i use backblaze and it seems to prevent my mac going to sleep.

I'll never buy anything endorsed by rush limbaugh, which is why I through out all my gold coins!

I hope v2 has improved. It needs to. When I was a customer I found their software desperately unreliable - a cardinal sin in a "peace of mind" service - and their customer service even worse.

The day I switched to BackBlaze was a wise day indeed.

Headline says that it's faster, but the article doesn't mention it.

Has the author actually used v2.0, or is he simply repeating what Lifehacker "reports" (which is actually a rehashing of the Mozy press release)?

Lazy.

Used mozy ONCE.

It screwed up my Mac so bad I had to re-install OSX.

NOT RECOMMENDED! RUN IN FEAR!!

Lovely!

Does it finally restore Quicken files without corruption?

I've been trying to use Mozy since it was in beta. They promised that Mozy 1.0 would fix the problem with Quicken packages.

So, I paid for 2 years of service only to find out that they hadn't fixed files swrapped in packages at all. I called them and they promised that the next update would finally fix the problem with Quicken package files. Nothing.

So, is it finally fixed???

I am tired of beta testing their crappy Mac software, reporting problems, getting vacant promises and NO fixes! For YEARS!!!

So, is it fixed???

Does it still take up a TON of CPU while sitting "idle"?