It took me about one week to backup 23+ GB of my data to Mozy. After doing some more reading, I decided that I really was not comfortable with Mozy having the keys to decrypting my files. Mozy gives you an option to use their encryption key or to provide your own. As you can guess, they really want you to use theirs which is what I did the first time around. First time around you ask, yep, to change your mind later requires you to delete your Mozy backup and start over. Note, this makes sense as the encryption actually takes place on your local computer before the files are sent to Mozy. There is no provided method to change encryption keys on data already backed up nor should you expect them to provide one as this would require computer resources on their site to accomplish this. You’d also have to provide them with the new key. Now ask yourself, if you give them the new key, what have you really accomplished?

I deleted my backup and started over last Sunday evening. It’s taken me almost six days to get everything re-encrypted and backed up on their site. The long poll is the limit that Mozy seems to place on uploading files. They cap out your upload to 1Mbit/sec. even though I have more bandwidth. Add to this the time it takes to encrypt each file, break it apart into smaller chunks and then verify that what was sent is actually what was received and you get 6 days to backup 23GBs of data.

I think I finally see the light