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POLL: How many of you are currently using Carbonite Online backup?

Tried it, will pass. Im better off just getting a backup HD, which eventually I will get around to doing.
 
I like it, it's great for lazy people like me. Oh, and use the promo code "Laura" at checkout for 2 free months.
 
Using it, but found that if you let it backup automatically throughout the day it can really thrash the HD.
 
You forgot the plain 'ol option of No. I use Mozy Home, the free one. I'm thinking about doing the unlimited though for $55/yr. I like how I can choose the directories and schedule the backups. I have them scheduled for like 2pm. My wife is home at that time, mostly just dinking around on the internet. By the time I get home at 4, the backup is done.
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Why the fuck would I ever use that...
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Because it's an inexpensive way to protect against data loss? 😕

Originally posted by: Sasiki
You forgot the plain 'ol option of No. I use Mozy Home, the free one. I'm thinking about doing the unlimited though for $55/yr. I like how I can choose the directories and schedule the backups. I have them scheduled for like 2pm. My wife is home at that time, mostly just dinking around on the internet. By the time I get home at 4, the backup is done.
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Do they provide software that you're required to use, or can you just FTP files?
 
I use Windows Live Sync to backup my important data across 3 different computers. Works for me.
 
I never liked the idea of backing up my data with a company that could very easily screw me over by going out of business or in a number of other ways. Not to mention the hassle of uploading stuff on slow ass internet. I prefer to just do multiple backups on various hard drivers. Cheaper, faster, and less chance of getting screwed.
 
Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
whatever happened to plain 'ol hard drives?
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Nothing wrong with that as long as you store one off-site and keep it up to date.

Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
I never liked the idea of backing up my data with a company that could very easily screw me over by going out of business or in a number of other ways.
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If they disappeared, it'd only matter if it happened at the same time as a hard drive failure; otherwise you just find a different backup provider. If you're worried about security, encrypt your files before they get backed up.

Not to mention the hassle of uploading stuff on slow ass internet. I prefer to just do multiple backups on various hard drivers. Cheaper, faster, and less chance of getting screwed.
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As long as your house doesn't burn down.
 
I backup to a hard drive once or twice a year and keep the drive in my fireproof safe in my closet along with my passport and birth certificate.

I don't really have a whole lot of data on my PC that I couldn't get over losing... the only really important thing to me is my documents folder, which contains basically everything I've ever written since high school, both academic, creative, and anything else. I back that up onto 2 dvd's as needed and keep one in the aforementioned safe and another at my parents' house inside one of the miscellaneous boxes in their basement of stuff that I never bothered to take with me when I moved out.
 
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: CrazyLazy
I never liked the idea of backing up my data with a company that could very easily screw me over by going out of business or in a number of other ways.
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If they disappeared, it'd only matter if it happened at the same time as a hard drive failure; otherwise you just find a different backup provider. If you're worried about security, encrypt your files before they get backed up.

Not to mention the hassle of uploading stuff on slow ass internet. I prefer to just do multiple backups on various hard drivers. Cheaper, faster, and less chance of getting screwed.
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As long as your house doesn't burn down.
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I store it on multiple drives in different places, not just in my house. If a meteor storm hit my town I'd probably be screwed, but I'd have other issues to deal with at that point.
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
I backup to a hard drive once or twice a year and keep the drive in my fireproof safe in my closet along with my passport and birth certificate.

I don't really have a whole lot of data on my PC that I couldn't get over losing... the only really important thing to me is my documents folder, which contains basically everything I've ever written since high school, both academic, creative, and anything else. I back that up onto 2 dvd's as needed and keep one in the aforementioned safe and another at my parents' house inside one of the miscellaneous boxes in their basement of stuff that I never bothered to take with me when I moved out.
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One 747 into the house and you're screwed.

edit: assumes that you are not in the house... otherwise you'd have bigger problems:{D
 
I use the free 2GB Mozy for my school documents (about 1GB now). IIt's been a rock solid system.

I have about 1.5GB of pictures I need to backup somehow.
 
I might be interested in something like this, though I'm not sure how reputable they are. For something like data backup I'd prefer more assurances.
 
Originally posted by: dighn
I might be interested in something like this, though I'm not sure how reputable they are. For something like data backup I'd prefer more assurances.
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mozy is run by EMC. can't get more of an assurance than that.
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Originally posted by: dighn
I might be interested in something like this, though I'm not sure how reputable they are. For something like data backup I'd prefer more assurances.
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mozy is run by EMC. can't get more of an assurance than that.
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looks interesting. thanks.
 
Nope. Because of its use to encases Han Solo in "The Empire Strikes Back," I've boycotted any product with teh name, "Carbonite." 😀

I wonder if they had to pay George Lucas for the rights to use the name...😉
 
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