OK ... at 11:35am Thursday I started an online backup of what I consider the critical stuff on our main file server using MozyPro ... 45.4 GB worth. I initially started with just 2GB of space to play with, then decided why not put the 30 day trial to the real test ... so I added another 50GB ... at $.45/GB why not?!
After 24hrs it had spun 3.7GB upstream ... with our 3Meg uplink I would have expected more, but so far as I've watched the app the upload speed seems to average in the 700-800Kb/s range. Hmmm
One of the nice features of the MozyPro app is their preconfigured backup sets. Select "word processing documents" and the app will tag all the files with certain extensions for backup. Yup, you can edit the file extensions list ... add extra rules to the backup set ... or change the backup set from include to exclude for certain file types.
So I pondered what limited stuff on our file server might be worthy of online backup ... of the ~400GB what files would most likely have some high value ... and since it's being uploaded the fewer files the better. So for testing I choose the following backup sets: Presentations, Word Processing, Email archives, Spreadsheets, Databases, OneNote files, and Financial data. Then went further to exclude Music, Photos, and Video backup sets. Here where Mozy is weak ... it takes a LONG TIME for the app to index and tag files. I mean a LONG TIME :-(
In the end, of the 400GB of data on our file server, 45.4GB were tagged for backup as shown below.
For some reason after I excluded certain backup sets (in red above) the size reported for that set was no longer correct. For instance, Photos is actually 138GB vs 231MB ... hmm, must be a bug in the software.
The test continues ... I'll report back more info over the following days.
UPDATE: Just hit the 10GB mark 61hrs into the upload ... so we're currently averaging 163.9MB/hr or 3.93GB/day
