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 2012-09-27 7:05 PM |
Sensei  Sin City |  Subject: Carbonite.com or similarI'm thinking that since I have years of photos now, and other non ciritical, but sad if lost items, I should have an offsite backup system. Gone are the days I could back up to DVD or the external HD. Beside, guess where my external HD and back up DVD's are? Right next to my computer. So IF I was to have a fire - it all goes anyway. Carbonite seems like cheap insurance at 5 bucks a month. Anyone have experience? Like or dislike? Ease of use? Access? Pros/cons or suggested services? |
| 2012-09-27 7:10 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
| Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I seem to be responding to all your threads today  But been meaning to ask the same question, so thanks! I'll be watching the responses. |
| 2012-09-27 8:58 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
Extreme Veteran  799   | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I signed up for Carbonite a few weeks ago. I liked that it was unlimited, because just my pics were at the limit of some of the others standard backup. It did take quite a long time to back up, about 2 weeks, but it's been good since then. Seems easy enough. Only thing I didn't like was I had to pay for a year at a time. |
| 2012-09-27 9:18 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
Pro 6838  Tejas | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar Never tried, but I know you can get a discount or free month by using the first name of most AM radio talk show hosts as a promo code. I think Dave Ramsey is one of them. |
| 2012-09-27 9:41 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
Master 2802 Minnetonka, Minnesota | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I signed up for Carbonite 2+ years ago when we got a new desktop and used it to transfer files to the new PC and it worked well, although it did take a few days for it to finish, but it does its thing in the background so we could still use the new PC while data was downloading. I really like it and it has worked flawlessy so far, backing up all new or changed files every night, although we have not had to restore anything yet (knock on wood). Great use of $59 per year I'd say. Geez, I should get paid for a shill like that.... |
| 2012-09-28 7:42 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Master 1402 Cumming, Georgia | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I'm still old fashion and use backup drives that are encrypted. I rotate them offsite and have incremental backups done daily and entire system images done monthly. I do this mainly for business reasons since I work from home and I want to have any sensitive data stored somewhere else. I'm sure it safe, I've just never looked into it further. |
| 2012-09-28 9:00 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Veteran 395 Henderson,NV | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar As far as pictures go, if they are just snapshots it's no big deal , but a photographer friend of mine said he doesn't use it for his picture back up because the backups don't have the same quality , due to compression or whatever. |
| 2012-09-28 9:58 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Master 1780 Boynton Beach, FL | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar Been using Carbonite for my office laptop for over a year now. It takes time to do the initial back-up, but after that it seems to work fine and best part, it works behind the scenes so you really don't have to do anything. |
| 2012-09-28 10:22 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Master 1439 Calgary, AB Silver member | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I use Dropbox for all filing, documents, exported/final pictures etc - you can get 5G free, and it's super integrated into the computer and phone (just shows as another folder in My Computer). It's also super Mac friendly. Wife has her own account, but we share many folders. It's SO slick. Then my main backups are the external drives - 1 at work every month or two (that's in case the house burns down) and then 1 in the house. Edited by Khyron 2012-09-28 10:23 AM |
| 2012-09-28 10:26 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Veteran 735 Norcal | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar Take a look at iDrive also. Backs up network drives as well as your computers hard drive. I *think* when I looked Carbonite did not do that but it was a while ago that I did my research. |
| 2012-09-28 11:36 AM in reply to: #4431195 |
Expert 4954 Middle River, Maryland Silver member | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar Been on Carbonite for about 2 years...works great and I've actually used it after I had HD crash. |
| 2012-09-28 12:22 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
Champion 7347 SRQ, FL | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar |
| 2012-09-28 12:39 PM in reply to: #4431195 |
Pro 9391 Omaha, NE | Subject: RE: Carbonite.com or similar I used Carbonite for about a year and it did work well, but I had one major complaint. I had several folders with installation files for software that were very important and I also had a lot of video files. I made sure the folders were selected for backup and went on my merry way. several months later I had a hard drive fail and I went to restore the files. Well it turns out in order to save space they selectively omit a lot of file extensions from their backups including any compressed files and video files. So it backed up all my documents and pictures, but my video's and software installs were toast. I was not a happy camper. I did discover that you can go in and select each file extension that isn't being backed up and force it to back it up, but it was very tedious and I just sad F it and switched to Mozy backup. I've been using Mozy for the last couple years and I really like it. They don't give you unlimited backup, so carbonite is cheaper but my backup needs fit within Mozy's space limits on their basic plan. Either way you go make sure you verify the files you really want to be backed up are being backed up. |
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