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December Update: I am very satisfied with Carbonite thus far. The backup was a bit slow but I attribute that to me being cheap with regard to my Internet service (next to lowest bandwidth option through Time Warner).
The interface for managing the backup of files is simple and easy. Your Windows explorer will display a small dot on the folder and file icons. Green meaning backed up. Orange indicating not yet backed up. The “InfoCenter” is not complicated and displays a progress bar indicating the overall status/progress. I scheduled my backups to run overnight.
The Holidays mean more pictures and videos and I find myself transferring my photos to the hard drive and then checking Carbonite to be sure they get backed up.
THIS IS A NO BRAINER!!!! Sign up and get your data backed up in the cloud.
(Previous Post) October: I finally decided to signup for an online backup solution. Until now, I have kept all my data scattered about on a couple home computers and mostly on an external hard drive.
Well… the hard drive crashed. Stopped spinning. Disaster strikes. The good news is that I can pull together the data from the various sources and collect on my drive.
Once that is done, I going to start backing the data up with Carbonite.
My Experience: The signup and install is easy. Out of the box, Carbonite only backs up your c: drive. It does NOT backup any external drives. However, you can perform steps to mount a drive and then select the folder you want to backup. For example, I put my files on f:\mydata, then I opened disk management and “added a mounted drive” to my newly created c:\myexternaldata folder. See this Microsoft article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889).
