CrashPlan or Carbonite – Are Bandwidth Restrictions Throttling Your Backup?

Buisiness Insider ^ | 03/02/2012 | Ramon Ray & the Smallbiztechnology.com Team

[FreeAtlanta]

With cloud services now available, gone are the days of those local data backups to CDs or tape – or are they? If your business has a modest amounts of data to safeguard, then cloud services provide a convenient solution for moving a copy of your data over the web to a secure storage environment. The issue is with larger amounts of data, with some cloud backup providers like Carbonite reducing the speed at which the data is transferred. It’s a policy known as bandwidth throttling, something that competitors like CrashPlan say they avoid.

If you know what you’re getting, then you can at least avoid unpleasant surprises. However, some network providers use the word “unlimited” in ways that require interpretation. Carbonite states on its website homepage that it provides “unlimited data backup.” Yet elsewhere it gives a figure of 3GB-4GB of data as the maximum daily backup level, at least in the context of its “Home”...

[McGavin999]

Thanks for the tip. I deleted my credit card information and didn’t replace it. That takes care of that. I also told them I would not be renewing. I’m going with Crashplan.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Great. I had just renewed as of November, so I’m screwed for a while. It’s for an old PC that I’ve now replaced with a Mac, and hadn’t set up the Carbonite on the Mac yet (and now won’t) However, someone mentioned that their real cost is in actual storage, so I might just take that old PC, load copy a bunch of DVDs onto it, and have Carbonite back that up for the rest of the time, maxing out my storage limit.

[McGavin999]

I have a question. Did you uninstall Carbonite without any problems? Do you uninstall prior to installing Crashplan?