Mozy + WHS

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nitrobass24

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Does anyone use Mozy to backup stuff on their WHS?

Since Mozy home cant install on WHS, what do yall do?
 
nope no worky..... i emailed them and they had no interest in providing WHS support for their Home service....

they told me to pay more for their pro service.... so i got a refund on my service....

keepvault is the only real known WHS backup that works with the console, that i know of
 
i dont really care if it works with the console.
Im just looking for something affordable
 
It's hard to find something affordable if you're going to be backing up those large amounts of data.

In the end if someone is overselling their product (like mozy) it's hard to feel safe with more than 20GB of data hosted for $5 a month.
 
CrashPlan? I'm using it on my Solaris system, and it works fine. Uploads are slow, of course, but after two weeks or so I had 1TB up, and now I'm at 1.4TB or so with no complaints from them. They don't distinguish between local and network-connected storage, but I'm not abusing the system: all of that storage is, in fact, local.
 
See i was looking at parascales

They give 4TB free to start.
But i cant figure out how to make it work with Windows :(

I was thinking of making my WHS shares iSCSI targets on a XP VM and run mozy that way.
 
nitrobass24 said:
See i was looking at parascales

They give 4TB free to start.
But i cant figure out how to make it work with Windows :(

I was thinking of making my WHS shares iSCSI targets on a XP VM and run mozy that way.
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You can enable network share support in Mozy with a simple registry edit.
HKLM\Software\Mozy\Options
REG_DWORD: networksharesupport Value: 1

The Mozy app will try to change the value to 0 so you'll need to modify the permissions on that key.
 
hmm good info, so use a client PC using W7 add the network drives and then update mozy....

interesting.... not as good a native WHS support but it would work
 
Does Backblaze work with WHS? I know it has a lag between queuing and actual upload, but for my WHS this is probably ok.

I'm in the boat of having a bunch of our photos that I'd like to protect in the cloud, currently about 600gb but growing steadily. And if I could I have another 2tb that I'd backup as well.
 
My goal is to backup my entire 8TB of movies
Might take forever to redownload, but it would take longer to rerip, re-encode, re-organize.
 
[LYL]Homer;1035022211 said:
Does Backblaze work with WHS? I know it has a lag between queuing and actual upload, but for my WHS this is probably ok.

I'm in the boat of having a bunch of our photos that I'd like to protect in the cloud, currently about 600gb but growing steadily. And if I could I have another 2tb that I'd backup as well.
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Backblaze doesn't back up files >4GB. That rules it out for me.
 
This is one of the reasons I'm not running WHS yet. I'm just using an old XP box with shared folders -and I remotely manage it through LogMein.com. MUCH easier to run an online backup on a box like that. I'm guessing that some of the companies will be bending over to supporting WHS soon though...
 
[LYL]Homer;1035022677 said:
What's the blowage?

I know it's slow-ish but with Comcrap's 250gb cap and a lot of data I don't see any other plans that are sub-$100 for a year. I'm open to anything reasonable.
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slowish is an understatement

I got a whopping 60kb/s
It would take around 1month just to do 100GB of data

At that rate it would take me 5 yrs to upload all my current data.
 
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[LYL]Homer;1035023147 said:
Yeah, well, 600gb at Keepvault is $1988/yr.
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OP didn't say anything about 600gb.

Most online backup services for the home user aren't intended for large amounts of data. Even the ones that say unlimited will have a cap listed in the TOS.
This services want people with this kind of data to move to the enterprise plans.
 
Archer75 said:
OP didn't say anything about 600gb.

Most online backup services for the home user aren't intended for large amounts of data. Even the ones that say unlimited will have a cap listed in the TOS.
This services want people with this kind of data to move to the enterprise plans.
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8TB
 
nitrobass24 said:
8TB
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Well i'd say you are SOL. That's an unreasonable amount of data for the home user to upload based upon ISP caps, upload speed and online storage service plans for home users. Most of these services are for people with a few gigs of photos. Not 8tb of movies. Hell i've been looking to backup my home movies, music, photos and while i'm under 700gb for all that I can't find anything reasonable that is really unlimited.

I'd say the usual idrive and carbonite, jungle disk, adrive, ibackup, dropbox etc. but none will work for that kind of data.
These guys say unlimited but i'm sure there is a catch in the TOS http://www.onlinestoragesolution.com/index.html
elephant drive is another service but they restrict file size, won't work for movies.
 
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I didnt find a catch in the mozy TOS so i will try that
If not i will find something else or a combination of things
 
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nitrobass24 said:
I didnt find a catch in the mozy TOS so i will try that
If not i will find something else or a combination of things
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Mozy home won't install on WHS. It detects a server OS and then tells you you need the pro edition. Tried it already.
 
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