Mozy Tips

I got a cool tip from Tom the support guy at Mozy with regards to a couple of settings they have.  The gist of it was that when I was backing up my home PC (30+ GB) the initial backup would take days to complete and from time to time (reorganizing folders, etc..) I would have to do a large backup again.  When you are doing this, Mozy is pushing all this data to the web as fast as it can. 

What I've learned is that when you are maxing out your upload speed, you can't download very fast at all...  In fact, it pretty much brings your cable modem speeds to about the throughput of a dial-up connection.

After sharing my woes and thoughts with Tom he suggested I take a look at a couple of settings that will improve my life.  The first is the setting to "Reduce resource usage..."  At first glance this wasn't what I thought it was; however, after he explained it I find that it monitors mouse movement and throttles back the bandwidth consumed.  Very nice. 

The second is the bandwidth throttle itself.  I find that since I have more than one computer on my network, mouse movements might be irrelevant since I'm surfing from another computer.  What I've done here is change the settings to throttle back usage from 4:00 PM to 12:00 AM.  That way during my peak surfing times I can be ensured that I will get decent speeds.  I set this to 128 Mbps and it seems to be working great.

Here you can see the "low priority" setting on the upload speed... Throttled way back.

Give these settings a try.  You'll find that your Mozy experience is even better than before.