is bitcasa worth using over carbonite?

[tommo123]

here because this is technically about storage :[

i have about 540GBs of stuff with carbonite but they want more money to backup files on ext hard drives and i'm thinking about using bitcasa instead.

i've seen other sites disappear in the past and while carbonite has been around a while, i know nothing about bitcasa and whether it's owned by a company with deep enough pockets to keep it going for a while or not

 

[Elixer]

Never heard of bitcasa, so dunno about them.

I do wonder, are you saying you want to hook up external HDs to your system and back them up, but carbonite won't allow that for some reason ?
If that is the case, then you could add a NTFS mount point and it should be able to backup that... details here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753321.aspx. That means you mount your external drive to a folder on the drive that carbonite does backup. (Though, again, I am unsure how carbonite works.)
Or, do you mean something else ?
Worst case, just get another HD yourself, and copy the stuff you don't need anymore on that, and free up room on whatever drive carbonite copies from.

 

[tommo123]

i have loads of ext hard drives and they're almost all full. i'm a hoarder 😱

if i use mount points, that would mean the drive letter dissapearing right? instead of mount to "D" i'd be mounting it within another drive/folder?

truecrypt fools the carbonite software to thinking it's a local disk but would rather not go down that road again. stupid windows keeps asking to initialize it and once i clicked yes by mistake! didn't lose anything thankfully

 

[Zxian]

Carbonite is terrible. Forget both of those options and go with CrashPlan. The software they provide is free to use, and the only thing you pay for is the service of backing up to their cloud storage.

You can use their software to setup automated backups to any other drive attached to your system (external, internal, whatever) or to any other system on your network with CrashPlan installed.

You can also back up to your friends' computers (offsite) for free.

I have my CrashPlan installed on my server. It is being used as the primary backup destination for all my other systems. I've let some of my friends use it as a destination for their backups as well.

If you want to use their cloud service, it's comparable in price to Carbonite. If you sign up for more than one year at a time, it's cheaper.