Internet Hard Drive

I have been using Carbonite for a few months and it works flawlessly.

Awesome, $5 a month? No problemo I can afford that. It’s always good to have another way to back up.

Pretty cool site. I accidentally hit it when FIREFOX decided I mean Chris Pirillo instead of ChristianCafe. I usually type the first few letters of my favorite sites and let FIREFOX do the walking but today it threw me your way.

Sounds like an interesting idea for secondary backups though I wouldn’t trust anything that requires an internet connection for my primary. I’ve had my cable cut enough times to know that connections go down when you need them the most. Then again if it gets people backing up at all then we have a winner.

This looks great Chris. I agree with Shawn. I think it could be a great offsite protection, I’ll still keep critical files locally (like my book).

Five bucks a month, though, seems like a sweet deal. That seems to be my magic price-point …

Chris Pirillo got my attention with anarticle about remote, internet-based back ups.  Oh this has been one of those services that sound great, people need to back up more frequently, but tend to have lots of problems.  [IMG Ads by AdGenta.com]Often they use the Internet as the conduit, which hasn

Chris. I am going to install tomorrow. Great tip — how to unblock attachments in Outlook Comodo Personal Firewall — pcmag likes it Companionlink for Google Calendar — sounds cool I think…I’d like to be able to share my bberry calendar with others in

[...] After reading Chris Pirillo suggesting the internet backup service, Carbonite, I decided to give it a try. I had issues connecting to the carbonite server on Friday and was a bit put off by that. I send an email to support and received a response within an hour they were experiencing server issues. I’m assuming due to the increased traffic … [...]

[...] I’m a new Carbonite user referred there by Chris Prillo’s blog and wanted to share some things here for the people who may be considering Carbonite.I have about 130GB to backup. Admittedly, this is a huge block of data but Carbonite advertises themselves as “unlimited” and shows 40GB on their homepage. After about 5 days of backup, I got an email from Carbonite telling me “Your account has been disabled temporarily. You must either reduced [sic] your pending backup size so that it falls below 100GB or cancel your account.” I did neither but emailed their support with my concerns regarding the vagarities of the EULA (previously mentioned in this thread) and advertising and asked them if there was a second tier plan. I haven’t heard back. My backup continues.Which brings me to my second point - speed. I’m a Fiber Optic user and get very high upload speeds but have been disappointed by Carbonite’s speed which to my mind does not take advantage of available upload bandwidth. I’m 12 days in of nearly continuous uptime with minimal interruptions, and only about 30% complete.These things being said, I LOVE the interface and the concept is awesome. I have never seen anything simpler for backup and I sincerely hope that they can work out the business to meet all customers’ needs. I paid for my year today despite the earlier email and I guess we’ll see what happens. I’d definitely recommend Carbonite to family users who need simple, no-hassle backup and hope that they can find space in their model for users like me. [...]

I bought this program a few days ago and it is fantastic. The interface is simple and the program works in the background without even interrupting my VOIP on my cable connection. It took about two days to back up 6GB of personal files, but now only new or modified files will be backed up.
I’m kind of a “Be Prepared” Boy Scout with 4X daily backups on my external hard drive and weekly DVD data disk backup burns, but these might all fail if my home were hit by a disaster.
The price is great, and as Ron Popiel says, “Set it, and forget it!”

Just to let you know that I agree with most of the comments. It seems a “set & forget” stuff, really. The price is very good, too.

Most importantly: I tried to restore, and it WORKED! How many people do backup, but never tried the restore? Well I just restore 300 MB, but it was ok (but not very fast… 100 kbytes/sec… my download speed is 300kbytes/sec max). Anyways, good for me too!

Carbonite has a little note in it’s EULA that they have a right to charge you extra money for “above average” storage used…

I recommend trying out Titanize [Titanize.com]… it’s Personal Content Manager [vs. run of the mill backup] so for the same $5 a month, you get local archiving, remote access, sync, share, publish. :)

Give it a try!

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carbonite sucks because it is only backup, no archiving…

well to start off i have not backed up my laptop at all ever since i have gotten it…because i dont really wonna pay to just store files when i can just leave it sitting on my laptop and hope nothing will go wrong and if i really think something is going to go wrong i will just put my backup on my 6 thumb drives all 8GB and it does the job and i just use the system restore point..and it seems fine but i am getting an External hard drive and when i get that i might get into the habbit of doing regular system backups…but untill then i feel nothing is going to go wrong (touch wood)…

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yeah carbonite is awesome….until you have to restore your files, then it fails miserably. last month, i had to restore my files after a hard drive crash, and it never restored more than 30% after 4 weeks. try calling them between their limited hours of 9 am - 5 pm, when most people are at work, and you’ll be on hold all day. try emailing them, and you’ll get a form response. whatever you do, don’t use carbonite!!!!

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At work we sell a rebranded carbonite client and provide support for it. How ever that comes at a premium. What you get is 100% US based support for those who care and someone you can contact for assistance if there is a problem with it or if you need assistance recovering data. You can connect via chat and we can screenshare or call to speak with a tech live. (maybe you catch me). $89/year not sure if I can release more info.

I started using Carbonite and everything seemed to work fine.
Then Carbonite insisted I re-install the software and since then it has not worked.
Carbonite sends an automated email telling me to contact Customer Service.
I have sent countless emails to Carbonite Customer Service and to Tech support and never get a reply.

I called them and the automated message reports the wait time is always at least 1 hour… Then I get the offer to Spend US$19.995 for “special priority service with red carpet treatment”
I’d spend the US$20 but I can never get the sale department on the phone !
All in all. The Idea of Carbonite is good. The Service and technical support “sucks” . I renewed a while back (my second year) but I doubt I will continue unless there is a serious effort to improve the service.
Note! My Carbonite installation failed 4 days before hurricane IKE hit…. and I’m still not able to re-install the program.

Thats Excelent And I could Afford It easily

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I am amazed with it. It is a good thing for my research. Thanks. ^_^