Code Monkeyism

Programming is hard by Stephan Schmidt

October 12, 2007

Mozy on Mac does not work :-(

I’ve been trying out Mozy as a backup service for my Mac. Granted it’s beta, but for me it does not work. When I change files or add ne files to a folder, those changes are not detected by Mozy (0.7.0.0). It tells me “no files changes” when I do a backup. Sigh. Either I’m doing something wrong or this is a bug. Their FAQ says it depends on Spotlight, but after checking Spotlight does detect the new files. I guess I either need to way for a final Mozy version, or I’ll look for another service. Sad, because Mozy looked good and was cheap.

About the author: Stephan Schmidt is currently a team manager at ImmobilienScout24 in Berlin. Stephan has been working as a head of development and CTO. He has used a lot of different technologies in the last 20 years including Java, Rails and Python. Stephans main field of interest is maintainablity and productivity in software development. Want to know more? All views are only his own.

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Comments

KC

I was googling about Mozy on mac to see if I could find anyone else having problems. I actually am having a different problem with 0.7.0.0 than you. My computer is unable to complete a backup because Mozy’s server keeps on dropping the connection (granted I am currently in Hong Kong until December, but this is an issue that Mozy claims is an internal one). Have you had any issues with connection at all?

October 19th, 2007
stephan

Hi KC, being in Berlin, Germany, I have no problems with my connection, though my backup size is rather small, only important stuff < 1gb complete. I hope they get it fixed with 1.0, the service looks nice and the client is easy to use. But a backup service which is not 110% reliable is not very useful in my opinion.

October 19th, 2007

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