Carbonite 50% off for 1,2,3 years

[SAWYER]

with code CUST50, I saw this on fatwallet just now. I'm about to try it

 

[jlee]

Link for those of us who had to Google it to figure out what it was...

 

[EliteRetard]

Link for those of us who had to Google it to figure out what it was...

What cave did you just crawl out of? Carbonite obviously preserves stuff.

Maybe its like that binary thing...lolZ.

Oh and w00t.

 

[jlee]

What cave did you just crawl out of? Carbonite obviously preserves stuff.

Maybe its like that binary thing...lolZ.

Oh and w00t.

Why should I know anything about online backup?

 

[Fox5]

And here I was expecting Han Solo.

 

[brblx]

yeah, this shit is not going to help me entomb my enemies at all.

 

[Nunya]

$65 for three years is pretty damn hot to me, thanks OP.

 

[bleeb]

I was thinking the material used to encase Han Solo so he could be transported to Jaba The Hut.

 

[jjmIII]

skydrive.live.com/ is free 25gb

 

[QueHuong]

$65 for three years is pretty damn hot to me, thanks OP.

I've been thinking of Mozy, but this promotion will get me to switch over. Thanks for the find OP

 

[Ronstang]

I have about 2 TB of data that I would like to back up in one fashion or another. Would it take the entire 3 years subscription just to upload that much data?

 

[UberNeuman]

But what if my data doesn't survive?

 

[yinan]

This doesnt seem that great. They gave too many restrictions on the types of files they will backup.

 

[KeithP]

I have about 2 TB of data that I would like to back up in one fashion or another. Would it take the entire 3 years subscription just to upload that much data?

It might...

Regarding unlimited online backup Carbonite responded to my complaint about it taking about a month to finish a backup, writing in their e-mail that:
Carbonite backs up an unlimited amount of data, however users with more than 200GB of data selected for back up will find that completing their initial backup will take a longer period of time. Carbonite allocates more bandwidth to new users doing a typical initial backup of less than 35GB, and allocates less to users after their back up exceeds 200GB. ...

If I understand their response correctly, Carbonite also seems to double count files that have changed in calculating these limits (backed up files + changed files awaiting backup).

In any case, my approximately 175GB of data on my Macbook Pro took more than a month to complete the initial Carbonite backup, and some updates are running at least a month behind. (This is using my high speed FIOS internet connection with optical fiber to my home that allows me to upload a 1GB file from the laptop to a web server a thousand miles away via ftp in about 30 minutes.) So, for example, this same important file that changes daily shows the most recent Carbonite backup is the version of November 11, i.e., one month out of date.

Sorry it is a bit long, from a reader report at macintouch.com:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/harddrives/index.html#d14dec2009

 

[Knavish]

I have about 2 TB of data that I would like to back up in one fashion or another. Would it take the entire 3 years subscription just to upload that much data?

With TimeWarner's crappy upload speed (384k for me):

2 terabytes / (384 kilobits / sec) = 1.42 years.

...assuming that Carbonite doesn't throttle you even lower than 384 kb/s

 

[RedChief]

This doesnt seem that great. They gave too many restrictions on the types of files they will backup.

It seems the restrictions are for selecting folders/drives to back up. You can always select a individual file and back it up.

Also, anyone out there have a good suggestion of a network folder sync/backup? I got carbonite to run on me server but I want to pull data (her docs directory) from my wifes laptop to backup.

 

[alyarb]

But what if my data doesn't survive?

they will compensate you if it dies.

PUT IT IN!

 

[Nunya]

It seems the restrictions are for selecting folders/drives to back up. You can always select a individual file and back it up.

Also, anyone out there have a good suggestion of a network folder sync/backup? I got carbonite to run on me server but I want to pull data (her docs directory) from my wifes laptop to backup.

I use http://www.2brightsparks.com/syncback/compare.html and have been real happy with it.

 

[QueHuong]

I've been testing it out and it doesn't seem Carbonite is able to save multiple versions of documents. Does anyone know if Mozy does?

Dropbox does it, although it's not a direct competitor to Carbonite.