Carbonite

  • mower
    Wisconsin, Outagamie
    Posts: 515
    January 13, 2012 at 5:08 pm #1275332

    Is carbonite protection worth it??

    biggill
    East Bethel, MN
    Posts: 11321
    January 13, 2012 at 5:12 pm #1027671

    I usually use latex myself. Carbonite sounds uncomfortable.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    January 13, 2012 at 5:17 pm #1027676

    I’d say it is. I’ve lost photos and other things due to hard drive failure.

    Personally, I have a GoFlex Flash drive and just manually copy things. But that means if I save something to my hard drive and the drive fails before I back things up, I am screwed.

    Also, I waste a lot of computer time just bulk copying meaning files that already exist on the flex drive that haven’t changed get rewritten, which is a waste of time.

    Lastly, there is a possibility that my hard drive fails and I find some or even all of the files on the backup are corrupt, I am screwed.

    STEVES
    New Richmond, Wi
    Posts: 724
    January 13, 2012 at 5:19 pm #1027677

    Isn’t that the stuff that killed batman? No wait that was milorganite. Right? No, taconite?

    trumar
    Rochester, Mn
    Posts: 5967
    January 13, 2012 at 5:23 pm #1027682

    Quote:

    Isn’t that the stuff that killed batman? No wait that was milorganite. Right? No, taconite?

    FYI..It was Kryptonite and it took the power away from Superman

    DanM57
    Posts: 4
    January 13, 2012 at 5:39 pm #1027691

    I use Carbonite at both my home and business. It is easy to set up and use in the event you need to restore a file.. Pretty slick.

    mplspug
    Palmetto, Florida
    Posts: 25026
    January 13, 2012 at 6:03 pm #1027703

    I should have added in my post that the nice thing about Carbonite is that it auto matically syncs and backs up your files which is way better than my method. That was the point I was trying to make.

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    January 13, 2012 at 6:09 pm #1027707

    If you keep any data on your PC that is of value to you, then YES. Get some sort of backup solution.

    xxrodbenderxx
    menomonie wi
    Posts: 173
    January 13, 2012 at 6:19 pm #1027711

    Quote:

    I usually use latex myself. Carbonite sounds uncomfortable.

    sgt._rock
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 2517
    January 13, 2012 at 6:35 pm #1027722

    Quote:

    No wait that was milorganite. Right?

    That Milwaukee sludge is great stuff. If it don’t kill it, it makes it grow.

    hairjig
    Cudahy, Wis.
    Posts: 937
    January 13, 2012 at 7:42 pm #1027748

    That’s Carbonite (Promo word ROME)

    aleb
    Butler county Iowa
    Posts: 342
    January 13, 2012 at 10:58 pm #1027784

    External hard drives work too.

    stuwest
    Elmwood, WI
    Posts: 2254
    January 14, 2012 at 3:38 am #1027844

    Drives have come a long way since i built my first computer in ?86?. REliabiity is astounding now.

    However, there is lightening (4x a year here), and supply backfeed and brown out, so i think a battery interface is pretty important.

    I don’t like having my backup on a cloud in this world and neither do my IT guys so we have some cheap 2Terrabyte drives and every so often (each nite if i’m working on somehting valuable) we back up our C drive to the Tb drive.

    I also started working on a 64G stick, so all my files are there also. It’s not perfect protection against all viruses, but it’s a lot unless you set it up as an operating drive. Every file and all email get transferred at the end of each day and it’s pulled after we power down. Kinda a pain, but i sleep much better…

    chubby
    Bloomington
    Posts: 244
    January 14, 2012 at 4:35 pm #1027923

    I have had Carbonite for about 5 years and have done complete restores after hard drive failures and twice when I got new computers. It works flawlessly and automatically. If you get a new computer you just go to the website and select restore. Over the course of about 2 days every document, file, photo are all back in the exact locations there were on the old puter.

    icenutz
    Aniwa, WI
    Posts: 2540
    January 15, 2012 at 3:13 pm #1028067

    Buy an external hard drive and get the free utility from Microsoft called SyncToy. Its all you need and will cost about $100. Yes carbonite is a good setup but it too expensive and I do not like to have stuff in the cloud. Just me but I prefer to have an external drive in my hand.

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