[Delphster]

I’m confused. Why not just use an external hard drive?

Its not offsite. House fire, tornado, robbery etc and not placed in safe. Drive fails

[AppyPappy]

But if you are trying to protect your data, why are you sending it to someone?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Also you have to remember to back your stuff on on the external drive on some sort of set schedule. Services like Carbonite are “set it and forget it”.

[cuban leaf]

Heh, heh. As you can see, it’s not something I’ve concerned myself with. ;-)

[gunsequalfreedom]

Its not offsite. House fire, tornado, robbery etc and not placed in safe. Drive fails.

House fire? That's what your refridgerator is for. Except for the most extensive fire, you ice box contents will be protected.

I'm not disagreeing with you entirely. It all depends on how valuable your data is. I back up to my server for my websites. That's free so I don't need Carbonite...especially since Carbonite decided to try and use its business to limit free speech.