For my USB backups, I use SyncBackSE from 2BrightSparks, which I like very much - unlike most so-called sync products, SyncBackSE actually knows how to do a true sync operation, including dealing with conflicts. So, it's obviously not network constrained.Ĭould it be CPU or disk constrained? It's hard to separate the two without a deeper analysis that I can't do easily, but I have a good way to look at the overall picture. 5GB over 8 hours is only 625MB per hour, which is about 10% of my upstream capacity. To make matters worse, any interruption of the backup (like hibernating my machine or losing a network connection) looks like it restarts the whole thing. Of that time, 47 hours were prep and only 8 hours were transfer. The actual transfer took only 3 minutes.Ī backup of 1000 digital photos totaling 5GB took took more than 4 days (that's with the machine on, nonstop). Of this time, almost all of the time was spent scanning my hard disk and compressing files for backup. A small backup, 290 files totaling 75MB, took 4 hours. Note that you have to open the Configuration window to change any settings or get status information on previous backups. Opening the Mozy Configuration window ( just opening it!) takes 20 minutes. Most of what I have backed up isn't changing on a regular basis. I have hundreds of gigabytes of photos that aren't in my Mozy backup set. It's currently 157,070 files for a total of 84GB. ![]() But, for me, Mozy slows my machine down to a crawl whenever a backup starts. ![]() And Mozy works great for my wife, whose total backup is less than 2GB. I used to use Carbonite but felt it was slow and it lacked configuration options that I wanted. ![]() I have a USB hard disk that I do full backups to and I use Mozy (the paid version) for offsite backups of critical stuff. I hate to admit it, but it took losing not one, but two, hard disks (one to a hardware failure, the other to a particularly virulent virus with a rootkit) and some critical data to get me there.
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