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I use Carbonite which is up for renewal next month.
Anyone know an alternative?
We use Mozy but I don’t know anything about their politics except they advertise on the Hannity show.
Mozy is suppose to be good. They advertise on Sean’s radio show.
Great alternative to Carbonite is at www.crashplan.com
I tried Mozy Pro and Carbonite. They are all rubbish compared to Crashplan.
Buy a 2TB external HD. 100.00 or less.
Drag drop and copy your existing hard drives.
Day or so later/when done, pull plug and store 2TB.
rsync. It's superb for offsite backups or to another machine in the same location since it uses an algorithm to only backup what's been changed since the last run. Here's a link to the manpage.I've used Norton Ghost for years and have never had a problem. It's automatic and it really works.
I guess you could say it's risky because I use a local HD to backup to, but what are the odds of both crashing at once? I guess a fire or tornado might get me, but It hasn't happened in over 15 years. I have just restored C: when things get so messed up I can't get by and it takes about 30 minutes for about 40 gigs of stuff. If I use my USB drive, maybe 45 to an hour cause it's slower. A WD USB 1 terabyte drive runs less than $100 most places. They have solid state USB 3.0 drives now that will hold my stuff for about the same price, just not 1 terabyte.
I divide my main drive in 2 parts and just make C: big enough for my OS and a few programs. The data is usually kept elsewhere on D:,E:,F:, ect. Get a virus and restore C: in minutes. When I install my OS and programs, I make am image then totally clean and keep it somewhere. If I get a virus I can use the totally clean image or go back a few days to get rid of it. If I loose something mechanical, I can do the same if I have the image somewhere besides my main drive.
I never understood Mosy or Carbonite because, if I understand correctly, you have to format C:, install the OS and then restore the image online. I'm sure Ghost is faster using the boot disk. Also, if you have a virus or malware, doesn't it get stored with your data so you would just reinstall the virus?
Yeah .. back yer' own shit up, don't have such unrecoverable stuff in a computer and don't worry about losing anything ... entropy.
My first wife of 21 years died in '04 and we (she) homeschooled.
After some time of confusion and darkness, I tried opening up her computer (for the alternate person taking over the homeschooling) and I couldn't open anything.
I was frantic, ... all those records and school "stuff", locked up forever !
Geeks I know tried and failed.
My kids survived, I survived, the schooling went on, they finished school ...
Lay back with your barcadas, Al ... sip a lil' tubol and don't worry about it.
Carbonite's business is based wholely on your incompetence and fear.
Don't let 'em have it because you're not on both counts. Mabuhay !
I use a product called Click Free. My mom ordered it from QVC. It is not as convenient as Carbonite in that you must periodically plug it in to your USB port, but after that the device does everything without prompting. I have a large memory card for my camera so I’m not constantly uploading and it’s not an inconvenience for me to use the Click Free. I also just finished grad school so after each assignment was complete I would update my Click Free. With options like Cloud and iCloud, you might not even have to worry about it though.
I’ve been a Carbonite subscriber for some years now. Last January, my laptop slowed down to molasses speed. I went to Best Buy to buy a new one. Part of the deal was that they would throw in a free hard drive-to-hard drive transfer. When I got home, I found that only about half of my priceless photos had transferred. I called Carbonite and they had restored everything in about 36 hours. I would not be without it. I learned about Carbonite from Rush. I’m sorry he apologized to that skank.
It is less expensive than carbonite at least for the business level backups.
I am a reseller of Carbonite - but that will be changing. I have already contacted idrive to sign on as a reseller of that product and I will be changing over existing customers. I have turned off the automatic renewals of Carbonite as well. If you currently use carbonite you MUST disable the automatic renewal feature.