BOB T Today, I switched from Mozy to Backblaze. I have used Mozy for about 11 months. I finally figured out that Mozy was causing extreme CPU usage and computer crashes. Going through their outsourced tech support was a trying experience at best. I tried a beta of their latest release and it did not solve my problems. Their new release (to their credit) does not seem to be using near the memory of their prior product. However, it seemed to want to start all over with a new backup. I tried a restore of a single file from my account. Once I drilled down to the restore area, it seemed to take an extremely long time to download the data which would allow me to pick what I wanted to restore. It took more time for me to sign in to my account at Mozy prior to asking it to do a restore than it did for me to sign-in to my BB account and choose what I wanted to restore In addition, this morning, after Mozy had about 12 hours to make a new backup, I had a message Mozy backup had failed! I know it is not good to knock one product to justify going to another competitive product. I have no associations with BB of any sort. What I liked, was that it quietly (CPU usage minimal) sat in the background to do it's thing on my Mac's HD. It allows you to backup your external drives if you find it necessary, and, it seems to be fast and efficient in responding to restore requests. I am not associated in any way with BB. I advise anyone reading this to try both services (or even others) before deciding they will pop for one of these services. (Version 1.0.1.162) |