Mozy or Slowzy?
I've been trying Mozy out as a backup system since last week. Easy to install, although I'm just using the freebie 2gb option for now while I test the service. Turning off huge folders just to get under the 2gb limit was eye-opening for starters, and I basically have very little usefully backed up in 2gb. No email. No images. No music.
But it's a test right, if it works out I'll subscribe and have unlimited space. Cool.
But it's been slow on occasion. To start with I noticed that right-clicking on a few files in Explorer was really slow. No, really slow.
Like, highlight a dozen files, right click and wait 30 seconds for the context menu. That's NOT cool.
I figured out that I can disable that option (which is actually the advice I received from their support when I mentioned it - kinda funny). So right-click is fast again.
Then today I figure I'll do a few more quick tests and plunk down my money for the real deal. I clicked on the Mozy status icon, looked at the history - every 2 hours it's been backing stuff up. Nice.
I click the Restore Files button, just to see how that info is presented. A browser window pops up (odd, we have a windows app installed here guys, why open in a browser?).
That was roughly 30 minutes ago. Maybe 45. it still says "Loading...".
*Sigh*
Remember, these problems are with a VERY small backup set. Nothing important yet. I have 30gb to backup when I sign up for real. Can you imagine how bad this would be then?
Just for kicks I'm going to keep checking on the computer to see when it finally shows anything interesting...
UPDATE: 7:21am (12 hours later) No change. IE has used 201kb RAM according to Task manager. But no file listing yet.