I’m noting this for posterity… I’ve set up a MozyHome Unlimited account and it is starting now. I just set up my first backup set and its working through it now. My complete backup, sans my large iTunes library which is already handled by Time Machine, is 97GBs. That’s a load of stuff and according to Mozy it will take some time before its fully finished. Once done, however, the local tool will only upload the items which are changed and not everything. That means won’t, or shouldn’t, take long once the big haul is managed. We shall see, and I’ll be updating you as we go.

Regarding the MozyHome software itself, its pretty easy. Its a little odd in that it offers pre-configured sets which you just check or not (i.e., preferences, application settings, Microsoft Office files, etc…), but you can also just tell it to backup your entire user directory. It appears that you can select both, which seems redundant, but there it is. Nicely, though, the system runs in the background and has options for controlling when it will perform backups and for throttling bandwidth usage. My issue with the bandwidth controls is that at the low end you can pick 32Kbps or 668Kbps but nothing in between. You can pick a lot faster (up to 5.2Mbps) but nothing in between the lowest two. Weird.

Anyways, it will take some time before its all done so when something interesting happens I’ll let you know.

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