Carbonite, online backup - how good is it?

[fso301]

Why would anyone want to clog their internet connection by backing up data to a site run by strangers at best, Chinese and Russian hackers at worst?

[fso301]

Best money I’ve spent so far because it is completely reliable.

How do you know the company isn't full of Red Chinese and that rather than file backups, an entire image of your system in now running on a blade server in Beijing?

[politicalamity]

I second Acronis. Good Stuff!

[Rum Tum Tugger]

The best online backup service by far is Mozy.com .

Very in expensive. No limit on amount you can backup (I've backed up over 230GB). Very unobtrusive.

I'm a backup nut. I also use Norton Ghost for daily backups stored on an external hard drive. But what if there's a fire or a burglary. Mozy gets all your important stuff out of your office/house. That's an extra level of security that Norton Ghost or Acronis don't provide.

[Tainan]

Very misleading post of yours. One comment about Carbonite on that thread and it is lacking in specifics.

[grb]

I used it. It’s a piece of junk. You have to download a small program. Starting getting the blue screen of death right away.
It spent a full day sending files to their server. Every time I checked there were no files in the backup. Run away

[Skooz]

I third Acronis.

It completely restored my C: drive twice last year without the loss of a file.

[Andyman]

I use it and love it. Everything is done in the background. You spend one-third of what a backup drive costs you and you never have to remember to do the backups, to take the drive off-site, or what to backup (so you don’t overwrite files that haven’t changed).

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’ve heard and read that Mozy is better and less expensive. Don’t know for sure. I backup to external media at home.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So I wonder what marketing guru named a computer technology after an old fashion obsolete process.

Have you actually seen "The Empire Strikes Back"?

Carbonite is the material used in the cryo-freezing process that Han Solo undergoes as a test of the equipment on a human before Darth Vader attempts to use it on Luke Skywalker. It has nothing to do with carbon paper.

[FreedomGuru]

I haven't used Carbonite but I don't necessarily trust what talk shows advertise. Including Rush, the talk shows can contradict themselves from one product to another.

[smokingfrog]

Mozy vs Carbonite

[smokingfrog]

You got me. Just a shameless plug for my previous post about computer mishaps. I’ll go crawl into my hole now....

[Tainan]

Personal endorsements are always good to hear. I do a nightly back-up to an external HD myself. And Lord knows its saved my bacon more than once.

[Still Thinking]

Some Photoshop wizard should do a version of that pic with a hard drive instead of Solo.

[Scarchin]

I tried a similar service - Mozy - but discontinued it because it took months to get my files uploaded to the site. Is Carbonite any better?

[Scarchin]

Have they improved the upload speed?

[Still Thinking]

Does it have any advantage relative to Thecus, Synology, ReadyNAS+ and PRO, etc?

[DouglasKC]

I use it and like it. It's really pretty much as advertised. Depending on how much data you have it might take a couple of three days for the first back up, but you don't have to have your computer on all the time. After that it backs up periodically in the background. The only thing it really affects is my Vonage, which also uses quite a bit of bandwidth, but that's only when it's actively backing up and when arbonite is not inn "low priority" mode which i usually have it in.

I have about 30 gigs of data on my 80 gig drive that I backup and it's very nice not to have to pull out the external drive (I have a laptop) or anything else to do a backup.

[smokingfrog]

cheaper? (I honestly don’t know.)