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Mozy Backup Complete

Sun, 7 Feb 2010 19:09:15 -0500

Whoo hoo!

My files are finally backed up online.

Making Progress On Mozy Backup

Sat, 6 Feb 2010 11:58:55 -0500

Thank goodness things have sped up considerably on the backup. Even if things slow down again I can probably expect it to be finished in two to three days.

Mozy Backup Status Revised - That’s Better!

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 13:32:38 -0500

After setting my backup so it would NOT throttle, and allowing it to progress for a few hours I checked back to find that my backup should be finished in about two and a half days now.

That’s a whole lot better. It will be worth using the laptop mostly to get this accomplished.

Backup Will Take 16 Days

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 07:41:59 -0500

After backing up for four days, Mozy finally decided to give me an estimate of how long it will take to finish the backup.

The backup actually made some pretty good progress last night going from 14.2% complete to 22.0% complete.

When I am not using the computer today I am going to reset the throttle time so it will not be throttling, and we will see if I can make any faster progress.

I think I may contact Mozy to see if it is safe for me to stop the backup to reboot my computer. I am thinking that the backup is likely to pick up from where it left off if I do.

I now REALLY wish I had added backup sets one after the other based on the importance of the files, especially in light of the fact that I do not have a Time Machine backup.

Backing Up Nearly 100 GB Online

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:53:28 -0500

I am happy that I decided to get Mozy Home Unlimited. I checked all the boxes to back up everything I could from my computer and it came to nearly 100 GB. I did not know, however, how long it would take to complete the first backup. In retrospect it might have been smarter to check one box at a time and back up the most important data first, and add on sets of data one at a time.

It’s been nearly two days now and my backup is 13.6% complete. I set the preferences to Mozy would not throttle the upload between 11:00 PM and 7: AM, and set the bandwidth maximum while throttling to 768.0 Kbits/sec.