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dmpilc
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Initially Posted - 03/14/2010 : 20:35:22

Have any of you ever used the product C.a.r.b.o.n.i.t.e (ignore the periods) for remote backup storage of your hard drive? If so, do you like the product?

DavidP
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delliottg
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Response Posted - 03/14/2010 : 21:40:05

I personally haven't used it, but I have a friend who swears by it. You might also look into Mozy, which I've heard good things about.

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crystal_blue
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Response Posted - 03/14/2010 : 22:36:15

You might also want to look into [url="https://www.dropbox.com/"]Dropbox[/url]. It suffers from a 100 GB account limit, but has a nice feature that can automatically sync up your files between multiple computers.

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DaveR
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 06:12:10

I don't have the need to expose myself to that risk so I'll stick with my flash drive. I'm certain no-one will hack that. I can see where some folks in certain situations would have to depend on something like this and glad it's not me. I don't manipulate funds or use anything but a credit card (no debit card) on line either. Some might call it silly or old fashioned, I call it not exposing myself where I don't need to.

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watercayman
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 06:18:50

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by DaveR
 
Some might call it silly or old fashioned...
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Naa, I think I'd just call it living smartly in today's world. While I use Dropbox, and find it to be an outstanding product, I don't put anything of real value on the site. At least nothing that would be of value to anyone looking to steal it.

If security is important for the things you store, and you are tech savvy, you can encrypt the files prior to sending to online storage to provide another layer of protection.

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skrenz
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 15:39:05

Now.......just imagine distributed computing..

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dmpilc
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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 19:44:37

Well, I can do fine with an external hard drive and flash drive. However the admiral's job involves PR and taking lots of pictures so she uses up hard drive memory fast. I had heard about the offsite program on the Kim Komando show and decided to ask here. Thanks for the replies. We'll check out Dropbox too.

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Response Posted - 03/15/2010 : 19:47:45

I asked one of my office users to discontinue using cbnite as it was hogging our bandwidth seriously

have you reviewed the restore from that service ? check the conditions

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Response Posted - 03/17/2010 : 04:34:50

File security - My insurance is multi location!

Online data is best kept on secure servers that are not directly connected to the web but are connected to the web servers via a secure router.

You can backup your files to multiple PC's (it's best to use a folder named with the date in YYYY-MM-DD.backup or similar.)
By using the YYYY-MM-DD format, if you list the files by name they will be in date order, and it's really obvious what they are!

External drives are now so small and so cheap, we have several and all are used in sequence.

Personally, I do not backup any music, video, or irelavant files. I can always replace them.

One of my clients recently purchased a bigger external hard drive for their office backup because their 500GB drive ran out of space.
I suggested they review the backup list, they found literally thousands of music and video files that a previous employee had downloaded while at work (right!) When they cleared out the garbage, they had less than 2GB of real data to backup!
Nuff said.

Paul

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Unsinkable2
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Response Posted - 03/17/2010 : 09:05:09

I use mozy - they've been great. You can even completely restore a system from the backups if you want. Of course, I also have my important computers configured with RAID - I do a lot of work on the computer and don't want anything lost.

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