Carbonite?

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crescere

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I googled Carbonite and only found positive comments which sometimes makes me suspicious. What have all of your experiences been with this service? Tahnks in advance to all with helpful opinions.
 
I would not bother with the service. Buy yourself two external hard drives. Keep one at a good friends house and back it up every few months. Keep one at your house in a safe cool place and back perform back ups every two weeks.
 
sorta agree with 2048...but in a way its a good idea to have your eggs in more than one basket...so probably having offsite storage is a good idea...i know TwiT endorses this...so it probably isnt that bad of a service, but having more options open to you is a good idea as well.
 
Here is my situation. My 300 gig computer hard drive was almost full till I got a large backup 2TB hard drive to hold all that is on my computer plus the extra files I have accumulated. I do have two 750 gig portable external hard drives that I alternate with one always kept at a relative’s house. However, the problem is that while one of those portable drives backs up data I will remove extra data to the large 2TB drive and when I alternate portable drives the data transferred will not be on the new portable drive. I know that is a little confusing, but let’s just say it is timing issue where the only drive that holds it all will be the one large 2 TB drive. So I thought Carbonite would be a good second choice.
 
I have contacted Carbonite and they say that any file that is no longer on my computer will be eliminated in 30 days. Obviously this means I cannot use it for archiving since I want to save files and get them off my computer which only has 300 Gigs.

As an alternative I guess I could leave my external hard drive plugged in, but if I disconnect it or it breaks I will lose that data in 30 days.
 
In my experience Crescere, you will be fine with two external hard drives. Just make backups every ten days with the external hard drive at your house and you will be fine.

Also, be very careful and meticulous when backing up data. I have overwritten the new data with old backup data before. I have only made that mistake once.
 
only thing i can suggest over the 'friends house' idea is if you have a bank account...see about keeping the backup copy in their safe deposit boxes...seems like overkill but, its a better solution to a place that potentally can be compromised. still i do suggest a cloud backup service, but i guess carbonite is like a syncing service like dropbox...
 
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