[nmh]

Yes, Rush advertises it on his show. He says he personally uses it. It might also be advertised on his website.

[Twinkie]

We have it, but guess we won’t know how well it works unless we need it. . . hope we never do, though.

[GoDuke]

Absolutely the best money I have ever spent on computer related stuff. Saved my rear end last winter.

[smokingfrog]

Some people don't think so.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2142504/posts

[cripplecreek]

[EveningStar]

Ping

[Spktyr]

You let other people have copies of your sensitive data and store it online where people can hack into it? {boggle}

[JRios1968]

"...it's not as strong as the Emperor thought..."

[TomServo]

I prefer my own backups, using Acronis and a couple of extra hard disks. Quicker and easier. Disclaimer - I'm not affiliated with this company.

[NJJ]

Every time I hear that commercial I wonder who the idiot was that selected that name. It obviously is a play on “carbon copy.” All of us old folks remember that before Xerox, secretaries had to type a master copy and had up to about eight layers of carbon paper with thin “onion paper” paper sandwiched in between.

The challenge was how hard the typewriter could pound the keys to deposit enough carbon on the lowest copy in order to be legible. It was really crappy but it was all we had.

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

[Darwin Fish]

It’s a scam. Don’t do it.

Buy a cheap USB external drive, like Maxtor. It will back up everything, each night.

[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?

[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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ShadowAce]

[TomasUSMC]

TIME TO DROP CARBONITE!!!!!!