Carbonite off site computer backup, any thoughts?

Hugh R · 05-19-2008, 08:31 PM

Just signed up for their 30 free trial, and the computer is now processing. Says the first upload could take 24 hours. I like the idea of off site backup, I live in brush fire country. While I have my 30 day free trial any suggestions on other sites, it's $49.95/year which is fine, but always looking for other ideas.

Thanks guys

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

Hugh, I have experience with Sonicwall's CDP appliance (disk-to-disk) backup that is really cool and supports local and remote backups. It's not cheap, but it's good for small/medium businesses. Bare-metal backup/recovery (Acronis) is also very useful.

URY914 · URY914's Garage

I've always wondered about this outside backup stuff.

tcar · 05-20-2008, 07:59 AM

Kim Komando likes Carbonite.

id10t · 05-20-2008, 08:21 AM

If it is really important, burn to CD or DVD and put a copy in your safe deposit box. Or perhaps arrange to mail back and forth with a buddy that doesn't live right next door. He keeps yours, you keep his kinda thing.

You could also let google handle your backups with gmailfs, even RAID stripe it across several accounts....

If you are trusting a 3rd party, I'd encrypt everthing and send the massive encrypted file.

Jims5543 · 05-20-2008, 08:35 AM

I back up to mini portable hard drives, my entire company fits on 1 with room for many years of growth.

1 copy gets placed in a fireproof safe in the office every day, 1 copy goes home with me every Friday. I have 6 disks that get rotated out each day for 5 days with 1 extra to take home.

The system backs up each week night at 1 in the morning and is done when I come in to work.