Don’t ‘rush’ to Carbonite shares (Stupid Investment of the Week award!)

Marketwatch dot com ^ | 3-9-12 | Chuck Jaffe

[chooseascreennamepat]

“I am a rush listener and I am quitting carbonite.”

I had just decided I needed to go with them. Glad I didn’t.

[BreitbartSentMe]

My carbonite expires in 20 days.

Please log into your Carbonite account TODAY - RIGHT NOW - and change or remove the credit card info that you have in there. Please don't take a chance that they 'authorize' the renewal a little too prematurely and then you are stuck! Edit the info so that even if they try and submit it to the credit card processing it will fail authorization.

[JCG]

It was not worth the expense. A simple and inexpensive external hard drive (USB connected) set to automatically, periodically back-up my entire PC, was not only cheaper (in less than a year) but seemed more sane than sending all my PC contents across the Internet to begin with.

Agree. I figure if hackers can break into the DoD they can surely get into Carbonite, et al. Google recently admitted that their employees could look at your stuff in Dropbox.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505124_162-43450077/at-dropbox-even-we-cant-see-your-dat---er-nevermind-update/?tag=bnetdomain

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[Hokestuk]

I need online backup, and was thinking Carbonite would do. That’s changed because of the Rush thing. And we hear now also that the leftist Carbonite ceo has been a huge contributor to O, Howard Dean, Kerry on and on.

Carbonite’s decision will reap unexpectedly negative results. The problem is that most potential users, having seen their tv ads, were willing to go with Carbonite out of sheer convenience. Customers will understand that there are probably better & less expensive options, but reason that Carbonite seems to have their act together, and to save research time the customer just goes with the visible Carbonite choice.
Now, myself included, customers will go ahead and make the minor effort to find an alternative to leftist Carbonite.
I just found some options: Prosoftnet, Crashplan, Mozy (of VMWare), Norton Online Backup, SOS Online Backup.

[bert]

Why do you need online back up when storage is so cheap?

[Hokestuk]

Local storage has 2 possible problems. I’m going to do local anyways, but the problems are 1) theft !!, 2) loss of harddrive (a real issue for someone who moves around a lot).

So, it seems online backup provides the ultimate failsafe.

[Neidermeyer]

Carbonite? What’s that?
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One of many copycat products for backing up your files ,, they’re all derivatives of IBM’s DFHSM product I was using 30 years ago.

[IbJensen]

I was being facetious. I know what Carbonite is and the quantity that made it worth ‘something’ was Rush Limbaugh.

There are many good backups on the market that does the same job, less expensively. I use ClickFree which costs little but does a complete job of backing up my info on my large computer which I then transfer to my desktop. It work like a champ.

Goodbye, Carbonite. I’ve relegated you to the scrapheap of history.

[Cincinatus]

Carbonite? What’s that?

It's a trick that Captain Kirk used to fool Balok.