Thank so much for this! I’m on the plane now and just gained about 40% more time. PLEASE MOZY MAKE IT SO “OFF” MEANS “OFF.” or at least add a battery save mode.

Fabrice – as I said to AlexSM above I have not had cpu issues with Mozy for a very long time, currently running version 1.4.3 (3-43575). Mozy is running at <0.0% at the moment.

Have you contacted Mozy about this? Dan Reese (@dreese on twitter) was very helpful.

I can attest that the problem is still going on. My Mozy is idle (supposedly), and still the MozyBackup process is consuming up to 99% of CPU. My Macbook is heating up and my fan is going crazy. Process switching is slow. It stops, fortunately, when I unload Mozy with launchctl, but that means that the onus is on me to reload it at the end of the day, otherwise, no backup.

Does anyone know of a viable alternative?

AlexSM – not had high CPU problems for a very long time (several software versions ago). In fact not had problems for quite a while. My last problem related to the size of the backup causing problems, but I worked through that with Dan Reese at Mozy and that was resolved and my Mozy backup runs well now at 190GB.

Same high CPU problems here and annoyance of not having a working ‘disable’ option (MozyBackup process is a CPU killer) left no other alternative, so I uninstalled Mozy.

I am having similar problems with version 1.3.2. Mozy’s CPU usage will frequently peg at 99+% even when supposedly idle. It will even do this when there’s no network connection, meaning there’s certainly nothing getting backed up. On a MacBook, this symptom has the effect of halving my battery life. I don’t see any final resolution on this thread, and my experience suggests it’s still a significant problem. Did anyone else find out what can be done to stop this battery-killer (short of killing the process or uninstalling Mozy)? If it can’t be stopped, can you describe the conditions that bring about this problem and how they might be avoided?

Thanks in advance!

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You’re making me feel better: I’m going for about 100Gb right now

Depends what you mean by huge amount. My Mozy backup now stands at 156 GB.

I’ve just discovered that MozyBackup was using 99.6% of my processor power (I’d been having a noisy fan for a few days and decided to investigate). I actually didn’t spot it at first because it’s running as root, and I had Activity Monitor set to show only my processes.

I killed it a couple of times, and it seems to have “reset” it — it’s not using up all that processor power anymore.

Unlike you, I am trying to backup a huge amount of data using Mozy — but I have to say I’m surprised that MozyBackup was running like that when my little Mozy icon is grey, not orange. I would expect Mozy to be sleeping when the icon is grey.