Anyone used this on line backup??

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I'm bumping this question because the increased amount of marketing by Carbonite in this market has peaked my curiosity. I'd like to use something like this for my office server. Is this something that can be accommodated or is this service more of an individual consumer PC product? Since their advertising is somewhat limited with regard to capacities, etc., I'm curious as to how much storage is actually provided. At $55.00 per year, this almost sounds too good to be true.

I have to ask why you would want your personal business stored on line?


That just plain scares me!

I think this is a good idea for individuals who either don't know how or don't know want to take the time to back stuff up on their own. The initial setup can take some time - and it's only gonna backup what you tell it to backup - certainly won't back-up your operating system setup.

But, on the plus side if you have documents that change or pictures added to folders it will eventually back up those files.

If you are just looking to backup docs and photos there is another service MOZY that will give you 2GB of free storage.

That is why I'm asking the questions. They claim that everything is encrypted, but to me that sounds about as safe as translating the data into Spanish. Anyone who knows the language won't have any trouble using it.

Whats the biggest flash drive you can buy now? I'm only using about 10 gig of my 40 gig drive. I've been thinking either flash drive or one of those portable usb hard drives. What about a Software that would take care of B/u's to a USB hard drive, so I don't have to think about it. John C.

With 1TB external drives for around $100 dollars I see no reason to use online backups. I definitely see no reason for a business to use it. When a business server crashes downtime can equate to lost revenue. It is much easier and faster to restore a server if your data is a few steps away as opposed to who knows where. Some of the more expensive services can overnight your data back to you but again you’re looking at 24 hours of downtime or more. Nowadays most external drives come with some kind of backup software and some drives include one touch backup making the process pretty simple.

Ive seen 128GB flash drives but their upwards of 300 dollars and flash drives are not going to be the most reliable backup medium. For the same price as a 32 Gig flash drive you can buy a 500 Gig External hard drive which is going to be more reliable.

The reason I asked is I backup at home to a HD.
Do a lot of work in the field and if Laptop lost or trashed, no backup. If I backup to flash its in the bag, bag stolen, no backup.
Plus I see business every day with backup right by server and sprinkler heads above the server.
It's a lot of trouble keeping off site backups.
I have been using Carbonite about 3 months.
Some of the folders I have it automatically do is
all TDA/TDE/TD/TA/DSX/Nortel/TVS/TVA customer files and templates,word docs, Etc.

I think Carbonite is a perfect example of "you get what you pay for". I have posted this in the past, but i use ibackup.com for all our customers who need a backup solution, assuming the data needed to be backed up is not too over bearing.

In addition i use it on my own laptop, which i have pointing to certain directories that i know id be bummed should my laptop crash or be stolen.

As far as security is concerned, well i guess you can say there's a risk, but i just don’t think im that important as to think someone is wanting to hack into my personal information. Im mean just a few short years ago we were all afraid of that Taliban with humus in the beard hiding in our cupboards, and look where that got us?

When I talked to the Carbonite people and asked questions, they said that it won't backup EXE files. When I pressed the issue they said you can manually select them, but they won't guarantee the xxxxxxxx of any EXE file.

(xxxxxxx - my mind is blank, for the life of me I can't find the word I need to put in there. It means getting the file back in same condition as it was in. I know I will think of the word once the EDITING TIMEOUT expires. I hate when that happens )