#MOZYHOME CONNECTING TO BACKUP SERVICE PRO#
#MOZYHOME CONNECTING TO BACKUP SERVICE WINDOWS#

While your computer is being used or even just idling, the cloud backup provider’s app will send revised or new files to the cloud either on a scheduled basis (once every hour, for instance) or continuously. Even if it’s quite fast, it can take weeks or months for the first backup to complete! Fortunately, some of these services will let you send an external hard drive to them with a first backup that they then copy to their servers, speeding up the process. One common issue for these services is that the speed of the initial backup of your data is highly dependent on just how fast your internet connection is. Cloud backups are meant to take every single file on your device and store it on a remote server, although some people prefer to just store a subset of files on their Macs. With cloud storage, you’re simply mirroring important information that’s on your computer(s) to another location “in the cloud”. Should your house or office be destroyed in a fire, tornado, hurricane or flood - or any one of a thousand other potential disasters - you can sleep better knowing that your data is stored in a different location.Ĭloud backup services are somewhat different from cloud storage. Why? Well, having all of your backup drives and data in one location is definitely putting all of your eggs in one basket. Part of the 3-2-1 Rule of backups states that you need to have at least one of your backups offsite. Our last Backup Month post covered cloud storage, and today we’re looking at cloud backup services. The second special post focused on three of the most popular applications for backing up your Mac. Consult the Service Protector FAQ for answers to commonly asked questions and troubleshooting tips.This April, the Rocket Yard is providing you with tips and hints on backing up all of your data - not only the information that’s on your desktop or laptop machine, but your iPhone and iPad as well. In the first Backup Month post, readers were introduced to the helpful 3-2-1 Rule.

#MOZYHOME CONNECTING TO BACKUP SERVICE WINDOWS#

Trouble protecting the Mozy Windows Service? We encourage you to edit Mozy in Service Protector and check out the many other settings that may be appropriate for your environment.įor example, send an email when the service fails, restart the service at a safe time every day, and much more. That's it! Next time your computer boots, Mozy backup will start automatically and Service Protector will watch the service to quickly restart it if it stops for any reason.

In a couple of seconds the shield icon on the right will go to green to indicate that Mozy is being monitored by Service Protector: To start protection, choose Protector > Start 'MozyHome Backup Service'. Mozy is probably already running but it is not yet being protected by Service Protector (as shown below). In a few seconds, an entry for Mozy will show up in the Service Protector window. You will notice a green circle on the left if the Mozy service is already running, as was the case on our PC.Ĭlick the Save button. On the General tab, in the Service to protect field, choose the Mozy windows service, called MozyHome Backup Service (or MozyPro Backup Service, if you are using that version). Select Protector > Add to open the Add Protector window:

#MOZYHOME CONNECTING TO BACKUP SERVICE PRO#

We have installed the free Mozy Home version and we'll use that in this tutorial, but everything here applies to Mozy Pro as well. To protect the Mozy Pro/Home Windows Service with Service Protector: Synchronize files in the background, but unfortunately the service occasionally stops - with the GUI reporting the

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Mozyhome connecting to backup service