I've been using Carbonite to back up my vital documents and photographs for a year now and have no reservation recommending it to anybody who has photographs or other important documents or files to back up. The service is quite impressive with its ease of use. I first heard about Carbonite from Leo Laporte on one of his TWiT.tv podcasts. Glad I did.
Check out my article on why it is so important to back up your photographs here.
Carbonite uses the Internet to back up your photographs off-site, away from your home. It's basically a small program that runs in the background that monitors your My Documents folder for files to back up as well as any other folder you choose.
When first installed Carbonite will start to upload an encrypted copy of the contents of your My Documents folder to their servers. This may take some time depending on you Internet connection speed, or rather your upload speed. (Upload speed is often much slower then download speed.) When the initial upload is completed it will monitor the My Documents folder for any additions, updates or deletes, reflecting that change with the copy on their servers.
Adding additional folders to your backup is VERY easy. I don't store pictures in the My Documents folder, I store them on a separate hard drive. To back up these pictures all I had to do was open Windows Explorer and navigate to D:\Pics. Right clicking on the folder will open a menu with Carbonite as a option. The Carbonite menu gives an option to either "Back this up" or "Don't back this up". Can't get easier then that, right?
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A great feature of the service is recovering a deleted file. Carbonite keeps a copy of all files deleted from backed up folders for 30 days. This can save people a lot of grief if they accidentally deleted a file. Note: If you right click on a file or folder that is already backed up and select Don't back this up it will be deleted within 72 hours.
Give Carbonite a try. After being a customer for the last year I can recommend them without hesitation.
1 comment:
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