Posted on 10/04/2008 5:50:01 AM PDT by VA Voter
Carbonite is not working on my laptop. OS = IE 7.0.5730.13. It won't backup. The most it's done is 3% BU. I've uninstalled and reinstalled 5-6 times, chatted and talked with tech support. Gotten emails after each uninstall begging me to reconsider. Have had 15 day free trial reset twice. I give up on this product. She'sa justa no work.
Any recommendations on another product would be greatly appreciated.
Let’s say this part again too - go buy the USB external drive and use the ntbackup program! The only hard part is to remember to have the USB external drive plugged in when you’ve scheduled the backup.
The OTHER alternative is a network based drive. I got an ethernet based harddrive box for about $70 and plugged a $100 drive into it. You mount this drive as a network attached drive and backup to it.
Those are your two easiest choices. So a couple months worth of fees from Carbonite buys you your own hardware under your full control without anyone needing to see your data. Further - its FASTER because it operates at ethernet or USB speeds - not cable modem or DSL line speeds (can you say 10x-30x faster??)
I use Dell Datasafe. It does an auto backup weekly, but you can set it up as you want. Not terribly expensive, I think I pay $30 for a year.
Is “ntbackup” one of those programs that you must specifically request when doing the original installation of Windows?
No, it's part of the core OS.
This was actually my first thought when I read his question, but I decided to suggest the more simple solution in the USB drive. I suppose another advantage in the USB drive would be portability. Much easier to carry a USB drive with you than a NAS device.
Need a file you deleted just go to that directory in the Mozy directory select copy and go paste it where you need it.
Mozy is $50 or $60 a year for UNLIMITED personal backup.
We're networked in the house so I just backup other PCs to a shared backup directory on the Mozy PC and they're backed up automatically as well because I specify the shared directory to be backed up as well.
If there is a fire I figure $50/year for remote, automatic, safe backup of all our our digital pictures and data ia a good deal.
If you needed a full restore I think they'll burn DVDs for you for a price.
Be warned their tech support sucks. It took a week or so to get them to figure out that a client's new PC was not the old one but that we wanted the old data preserved - not just overwritten. Sigh.
Forgot to mention - Mozy offers a FREE 2GB backup account for personal use so you can try it out w/o committing to annual payment. Also FYI - I have no connections/interests in Mozy. ;-)
I'll say it and add some.
Go out and buy a Western Digital MyBook. Best unit on the markey. And a 500Gb drive is in the $100-$120 range. Short money.
Couple that with Arconis true Image or PING for more advanced users and you're in Backup City. For data backups instead of images, Cobian is a great piece of freeware.
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