13
Mar
2010

Uninstalled Mozy or Carbonite on OS X? Read This.

Posted in Tools of the Trade

A few months back I had tried out both Mozy and Carbonite for OS X. I wanted some assurance that if a comet crashed into my house, my files would survive. Long story short, neither of them really fit the bill, so I ended up uninstalling both of them.

Today, I was having some issues getting CF8 to start up. Checking the logs, I saw the following:

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot.

Both applications were uninstalled cleanly. I was pretty surprised to find that there were processes still running (frequently) for both of them.

Some googling revealed the solution to removing 'em (run as sudo where needed):

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mozy.backup.plist
rm /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.mozy.backup.plist

launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist
launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist
rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist
rm /Library/LaunchAgents/com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist

Ah, much better. Seeing how poorly each of the uninstall processes actually worked makes me feel pretty good about no longer using either service.

To give due credit, https://www.georgestarcher.com/?p=177 detailed removing Mozy, and http://de-co-de.blogspot.com/2009/03/un-carbonite.html detailed removing Carbonite.

Thanks to both blogs for posting the information.

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  1. David Sirr's Gravatar

    # Posted David Sirr on 3/13/10 7:48 PM

    did you end up finding a good service, i'm trialling mozy at the moment but unhappy with it also.

  2. Charlie Griefer's Gravatar

    # Posted Charlie Griefer on 3/13/10 11:55 PM

    @David - No, for now I'm content (more or less) with backing up my machine via Time Machine to a 500GB external drive, and backing up important documents, music, home movies to an external 1.5TB drive (which I mirror onto a 2nd 1.5TB drive).

    I think I'm pretty well covered in case of disk failure, but not so much against a comet.

    I did hear good things about JungleDisk. The only thing that doesn't really work for me regarding JungleDisk is the pay-per-use pricing. I don't think it's an unfair model... but I'm budgeted pretty tight right now and really liked the flat-fee model of Mozy and Carbonite.

  3. David Sirr's Gravatar

    # Posted David Sirr on 3/14/10 6:23 AM

    yeah i'm backing up to mirrored externals at home, i'd just like to have those irreplaceable things like family photos etc backed up in the cloud in case of fire/theft/etc

    crashplan may be worth a look at... seems they all have some issues though... http://b4.crashplan.com/consumer/index.html

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