The market is down but frankly I think carbonite was BS. Good riddance.
So why is Clear Channel off today too?
Clear channel is off 8% since Friday’s close.
Excellent news...not suppose to celebrate another’s demise but..exceptions exist for Carbonite
Excellent post too.
Awwww, gee. Stupidity and liberalism bring consequences!!
Crash and burn!!!!
Nice. I have a friend who works for them...I told her she is a fine person, but I will be allowing my subscription to expire and I will not renew.
I think she understands. Apparently the phone banks to Carbonite have been inundated with angry callers—I didn’t call, since I am in the middle of a term with them, and their terms of service say no refunds.
But when this subscription is over, I am not going to renew.
Cancelled Carbonite subscription today.
I am Andrew Breitbart.
I was involved with a PC OEM vendor’s online backup solution. We evaluated Carbonite - they showed up with their VP of Marketing and a couple of other consultants. The Marketing guy looked like a clown (obvious rug on his head), and no one in the room could answer basic technical questions. I wouldn’t trust them to back up any data/files of mine....
Personally, I never keep just one copy of a file, but that's just for starters. I suggest you buy three external drives from three different manufacturers. There have been instances where a particular model fails after having been marketed (like the 40 gig IBM from a few years ago), even multiple drives are no good if all the hardware is no good and fails due to bad design. Back up your files and take a drive to work and keep it in your desk drawer, keep it in a safe deposit box or give it to a friend to hold, just keep it off site. Every few weeks, swap it for the home drive that has the updated backup and then update the formerly off site drive when you get it home. Send a drive to your sister of brother-in-law somewhere in Denver or Oshkosh so if your hometown gets hit by tornado or an asteroid at least your files will still be safe. Finally, buy some thumb-drives and put your really important files on them and scatter them around, buy a few more when you need to update and add to the stash.
You don't need defense in depth for another picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head, but it's stuff like the data that represents the draft copy of the next great American novel you are writing that should get the extra protection from catastrophic loss. The one thing that the cloud does really well is that you can have all your data anywhere on the planet at the other end of an Internet connection, only you really don't need somebody else’s cloud, you can buy what are called networkable attached storage (NAS) hard drives or get something like the Pogoplug, hook up a USB drive to it and roll your own cloud, although you will have to consider the fact that your home server will probably not be on-line after the tornado hits and that you won't have a working Internet connection, or for that matter, power.