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Ted Harris

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I am considering an offline backup something like Carbonite which creates a virtual drive. Here is my question: Lets suppose that I have a 700 GB HDD. I have say 350 GB data stored on it. If I install Carbonite, with its virtual drive, am I going to run out of storage space on my HDD? Probably a dumb question but I would appreciate a gentle education.
 
Erm, if your current HD has space for 700GB, and 350GB is used up, you have 350GB left.
Carbonite is a backup service is it not? You pay $X for Y amount of storage.
You will run out of space on your HD when you hit 700GB.
Backing up 700GB of data onto Carbontine will take a very, very, very long time, unless you have fiber.
 
No what I am asking and I guess that I didn't make my self clear. Will the virtual drive which would be the same size as whatever I am saving, be the same size as the files that I am saving? In other words 350 GB if I save that much.
 
I didn't know what Carbonite was, so I looked it up. The "virtual drive" does not take up any space on your computer; it's just a small program that connects to the service. Carbonite is an online backup system, so the backkups are stored on their servers.

I'm not sure what you meant in the OP by "offline backup", that part makes the OP a bit confusing.
 
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