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don2007
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 Posted - 07/13/2012 : 12:34:52 PM
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Does anyone have any opinions on Carbonite? Staples tried to sell it to me when I bought an external drive.
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anthony
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Posted - 07/15/2012 : 6:41:08 PM
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I use Carbonite, but not as my primary backup. I have had issues restoring a large volume of data from Carbonite. By that I mean, if your computer dies, and you just go to carbonite and say, restore the My Documents folder (that might be 5GB - then expect it to hang and crash. You WILL end up restoring one folder at a time. Tedious, but as a last report - I'll take it. But it's great to get a file or two or a couple hundred megs of files. They will also send you a DVD(s) of your data for a fee. For $5 a month unlimited, I can't resist having my data in that one extra place.
My most prized data is music, video, and photos, not much Word, Excel, Etc.
Right now I backup 3 different ways:
1. StorageCraft snapshots to a NAS on my LAN.
2. Sugarsync
3. Carbonite
Sugarsync I use for Photos, My Docs, Music, etc.
Carbonite is used for all my software downloads plus the above.
Storagecraft is an image based backup of all hard disks and all partitions. |
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lacrosseboy
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Posted - 07/16/2012 : 2:34:39 PM
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| I also use Carbonite and it is my primary backup because I added the Home Premier service. At $149 a year it's ok pricing wise and the ship your data to you overnight works for me. I don't have much that I need right away. Photos and home videos are my major items that I don't want to lose. |
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anthony
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Posted - 07/16/2012 : 2:45:30 PM
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I just cannot trust one single company with my data. I need to have it in 2 or 3 places to sleep at night. Then again, if I lost my son's baby pictures - I would be divorced. So a lot is riding on my backup procedures  . I'm kidding of course - but I would never live it down if I lost them. Not to mention it would kill me too if I lost that. I also keep a yearly backup I do to DVD of Pictures and Videos that I keep in my safety deposit box at the bank. So that's one more place... |
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don2007
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Posted - 07/17/2012 : 1:31:15 PM
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LOL at the 5GB hang & crash restoration! That doesn't sound good.
Talking about baby pictures, a friend of mine was constantly losing them. He had an over priced machine from the Home Shopping Network, which was pure garbage & no backups. Every time pictures & backups are discussed, I think of a box of black & white photos from the 20s through the 60s that my mother had for years. The pictures never got deleted & the box never crashed.
Put the baby pics on 2 external drives & give them to your wife, to hold. That way it can never be 100% your fault. |
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wobble_wobble
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Posted - 07/17/2012 : 7:51:13 PM
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Originally posted by don2007
Put the baby pics on 2 external drives & give them to your wife, to hold. That way it can never be 100% your fault.
For years I thought Don was bullet proof.... |
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aval
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Posted - 07/18/2012 : 6:11:54 PM
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I think of a box of black & white photos from the 20s through the 60s that my mother had for years. The pictures never got deleted & the box never crashed.
My parent's system too. But in case of fire they'ed be more than deleted. I'm thinking we should scan the more important ones and burn to CD/DVD for archiving. |
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don2007
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Posted - 07/19/2012 : 09:26:07 AM
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LOL @ wobble
Anthony: A fire would kill the DVDs too. |
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Pesos
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Posted - 07/20/2012 : 2:34:45 PM
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| I used to have a few clients on Carbonite as a secondary backup, as well as my mom :-) Now mom's on dropbox and clients are on Crashplan Pro. Can't beat crashplan's pricing - blows carbonite away AND I was able to get 650 GB backed up pretty quickly - carbonite had been choking on that 650gb for almost 2 months and was barely 65% done!!! Pathetic. |
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anthony
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Posted - 07/21/2012 : 12:34:28 PM
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Don, yeah I get that DVDs could be destroyed by fire. But looking at the overall picture - copies on my NAS, copies on my DVDs at my Bank, on Carbonite, on SugarSync, I feel like if all those were lost, we would be witnessing an event where my photos would not be on the top of my list of worries...
What type of event would destroy all those at once? Whatever that is, I would not really wan't to know. |
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don2007
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Posted - 07/23/2012 : 3:19:36 PM
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don2007
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Posted - 12/08/2012 : 9:36:22 PM
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| Thanks for the link. |
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RichNRockville
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Posted - 12/09/2012 : 06:58:16 AM
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I have a couple of clients on MOZY pro and they are very pleased with the easy ability to restore files and directories.
Not really cheap but works.
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don2007
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Posted - 12/09/2012 : 8:56:44 PM
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| I wonder if it's reasonable to setup backups to friend's networks & allow them to use mine as their backup. I have text, docs, music & video files that mean something to me. If they were gone tomorrow, I would be disappointed but I wouldn't lose any money. What decides the price that one is willing to pay, for a cloud? |
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anthony
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Posted - 12/10/2012 : 3:34:20 PM
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Don, CrashPlan allows this... not sure of the details but I got a free tear to switch from Carbonite and I have been happy with it thus far...
http://www.crashplan.com
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netmarcos
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Posted - 12/10/2012 : 5:06:35 PM
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| You might want to include a look at http://www.bitcasa.com/ |
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don2007
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Posted - 12/12/2012 : 1:12:05 PM
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| Thanks, I'll look at both of those. |
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