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By the end of day two we had nearly 25GB of data backed up over a 5Mbps-upload-speed Internet connection. They told us to restart the process and on the second day the bits started flying. Not acceptable! Fortunately, we contacted their very responsive technical support. That’s right, MB! At that rate it would take nearly 500 days to backup. The first day it only backed up about 300+ MB of data. The initial backup was supposed to be about 148GB. That is the monthly fee for 250GB of storage. Sadly the only magic it does is make $10 disappear from your bank account. Once we were finished selecting what to back up, we let it do its magic. We wanted to use it primarily to back up our very large photo library – over 100GB. Select the folders or drives to be backed up. Next, the Dolly Drive assistant helped us select what to backup, after the app was set up to run with Time Machine. Unfortunately, we never around to testing that feature since the cloud backup part of the app was so problematic. This way you can quickly restore from a catastrophic crash. It also offers an option to clone your hard drive to your Time Machine backup drive connected to your Mac. Dolly Drive works between the OS and Time Machine to offer a network drive upon which your Time Machine backup will run.
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DOLLYDRIVE MAC OS
In case you didn’t know, Time Machine is the built-in backup tool in Mac OS X. It did only happen that once – at that point.Īfter it finally ran, a configuration screen helped us get started with Time Machine. We were impressed that within a few hours their tech support emailed us saying they received the crash report and wanted to know if it was a repeated problem or a one time thing.
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The installation was simple enough, but the first time we opened it up, it crashed.
DOLLYDRIVE MAC OS X
We signed up for the monthly service which offers 250GB of cloud based Time Machine backups for a Mac OS X computer. In our test of the service we found it to be buggy and slow, creating more concern about your precious files being backed up than it does assurance and security. Unfortunately the folks at Dolly Drive probably should have waited a while to announce the service which feels like it is in need of more beta testing. Dolly Drive is interesting new service which was announced at MacWorld 2011 that allows users to backup to the cloud using the Time Machine tool found on MacBooks.