Backup systems

[Ranger Mom]

I have heard of Carbonite and Mozy.

Have any of yall used either one? Are they worth it? Is there another better one out there??

I don't want to have to get an external hard drive and back up that way....I like the online concept better......IF it works.

Any suggestions or feedback??

[crabman]

I use Carbonite and I lost a hard drive last year. I had about 13,000 files on it and I recovered every single one of them. It took three days to download that many files but I did it over the weekend and it worked great. I recommend it to everybody I know.

[NateDawg39]

How is this sports related.....










Nah but really, these are very useful. I have Carbonite because my work requires a lot of architectural schematics and things so I need plenty of back up.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by NateDawg39
How is this sports related.....










Nah but really, these are very useful. I have Carbonite because my work requires a lot of architectural schematics and things so I need plenty of back up.

It's not sports related...how many times do I have to say when we are in football off-season this forum is open season???

[NateDawg39]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
It's not sports related...how many times do I have to say when we are in football off-season this forum is open season??? I WAS KIDDING!! :mad:


GEEEEZE MOM

[raider red 2000]

Originally posted by crabman
I use Carbonite and I lost a hard drive last year. I had about 13,000 files on it and I recovered every single one of them. It took three days to download that many files but I did it over the weekend and it worked great. I recommend it to everybody I know.

how much does this cost a month?

[blowfish]

The answer is Best Buy.... get you a 1 Terabyte USB\Firewire external drive. Something you need to remember is the offsite companies scan your files with MD5 and SHA hash values. If yours give at hit ring ring to the authorities. Now if it is child porn or somethin illeagal like that I am all for it. But do we really know what the are looking for? Music, Videos, Pictures, web content, who knows.

just my $.02

[crabman]

Carbonite is $50 per year so about $4 per month. Unlimited storage.

I could use an external hard drive but those go out as well.

Until they come up with a good solid state external drive instead of the old spinning disc I am going to continue with Carbonite. Every computer at my office has it. The biggest benefit is that you can never forget to do it.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by crabman
Carbonite is $50 per year so about $4 per month. Unlimited storage.

I could use an external hard drive but those go out as well.

Until they come up with a good solid state external drive instead of the old spinning disc I am going to continue with Carbonite. Every computer at my office has it. The biggest benefit is that you can never forget to do it.

That was my thinking....I don't wanna go the external drive route. Been there, done that...and it was a fiasco...ended up losing everything because nothing ever went to it.

This was after we paid money to have a computer firm come in and install it for us, was supposed to be automatic back up...problem was, there were no lights or anything on it to indicate that it was even on or doing anything.....and, it wasn't!!

[crabman]

The only thing you have to watch with Carbonite is if you have programs where the data is saved within the program. I have two programs that do that. One is Primavera Expedition and the other is Primavera Project Planner. ONe is a project management software and the other is a scheduling program. In order to get Carbonite to back it up I have to backup the program data to the hard drive. I have an alert so that I do this on Friday mornings at 8:00 A.M. That is the thing about Carbonite. It does not back up your programs. Only data. When you lose a hard drive you reload all of your programs and then download your data from Carbonite. Make sure you have a list of all of the programs you have on your computer. Carbonite cannot restore a file to a program that is not there.

Programs like Excel or Word do not keep the data inside of Excel or Word. They save the data to a file on your C drive automatically. Makes it easy.