Carbonite or Mozy

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dpvandy01

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iMac 20 needs to be backed up, so does anyone have experience with either Carbonite or Mozy?? Pros and cons of this service vs time machine or a run of the mill external hd?
 
Rush uses Carbonite.
 
Carbonite is very slick -- you just select the folders to backup and forget about it. Everything that gets saved to those folders gets backed up automatically. I have a separate physical drive where all of my data is stored and everything on that drive gets backed up. I just checked a few minutes ago and I have over 350GB of data backed up -- over 50,000 files. 15,000 of those are photos. The downside to any online backup service is that the initial backup can take a long time -- mine took 3 weeks for the initial. After that files are backed up almost immediately.

I pre-paid for 3 years and it was around $100 at the time if I recall.
 
A two pronged approach...

An external firewire/USB drive which you clone your entire drive to.
If you lost your drive or laptop, you could use this external drive to boot another Mac and all your apps and data are just how they were the day you cloned. SuperDuper is a very popular clone app. Carbon Copy Cloner is also very good (and free).

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incremental/offsite backup of just your user data
My preference is CrashPlan. If not crashplan, then carbonite. Not mozy.


The above approach allows for immediate recovery from a failed/lost drive and also pushes your own files offsite for retrieval when needed.

Jeff
 
I recently lost everything w a hd crash...went w carbonite and it is sooooooo easy to back everything up it was sick. Yes it took a while, but once backed up it is very easy to get to get everything it is amazing. For what it is worth, be sure to make sure your .n2k file is backed up as well for all of your outlook info. Now i can back up or retrieve anything and it is as solid as I could want it to be. Well worth the entry fee. I back up on an external hd as well...do not want to experience that ever again. no matter the cost it is well worth not losing any info ever again.

It is not a matter of IF you crash, it is a matter of WHEN.
 
dpvandy01 said:
Well an update. I purchased Carbonite and I'm 2 days in to my initial back up. 20 GB down, 70 GB to go!!!! Looks like I should be good in 3 or 4 days!
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3 or 4 days my a$$$ I started this thing on the 28th around 1600, to date I've backed up 61 GB with 29 GB still to go:smt021 It's not slowing down the computer but go Lord!!!!
 
dpvandy01 said:
3 or 4 days my a$$$ I started this thing on the 28th around 1600, to date I've backed up 61 GB with 29 GB still to go:smt021 It's not slowing down the computer but go Lord!!!!
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My initial backup took weeks but now new files are backed up almost immediately.
 
I like time machine, but I need to implement ZFS. It's in Snow Leopard (10.6) I have the DVD, but still have not gotten around to installing it. It's on my cold weather project list. I love ZFS on my Solaris boxes here at home.
 
I still do mine the old fashioned way by backing up to DVD in January, and making incrementals every month. I make second copies of the DVDs and keep them in a locked cabinet in my office. I also keep a local backup made by Norton Security Suite. I have it set up to backup my one and only data directory onto a 2nd hard drive daily. In the event of a crash, I have 3 complete sets of data to work with.

Maybe I am the only one who is a little paranoid about where my data goes and who has access to it? Where do Carbonite and Mozy keep their data? I'm sure that from an equipment perspective, they have more than one server site with sufficient redundancy to keep an intact copy of my data. That does NOT bother me. But what do their employees do when they are bored? Browse other folks' pictures? Compile lists of bank account, credit card, address, and social security numbers? There absolutely is enough information on my computer to steal my identity. I'm just can't seem to get comfortable with the idea of broadcasting it onto the internet without seeing the place and knowing the people who will have accesss to it.
 
skibum said:
I still do mine the old fashioned way by backing up to DVD in January, and making incrementals every month. I make second copies of the DVDs and keep them in a locked cabinet in my office. I also keep a local backup made by Norton Security Suite. I have it set up to backup my one and only data directory onto a 2nd hard drive daily. In the event of a crash, I have 3 complete sets of data to work with.

Maybe I am the only one who is a little paranoid about where my data goes and who has access to it? Where do Carbonite and Mozy keep their data? I'm sure that from an equipment perspective, they have more than one server site with sufficient redundancy to keep an intact copy of my data. That does NOT bother me. But what do their employees do when they are bored? Browse other folks' pictures? Compile lists of bank account, credit card, address, and social security numbers? There absolutely is enough information on my computer to steal my identity. I'm just can't seem to get comfortable with the idea of broadcasting it onto the internet without seeing the place and knowing the people who will have accesss to it.
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All of the data stored on the Carbonite/Mozy servers is encrypted and it's not accessible to anyone but the owner. It's as safe, or safer, than your online banking info.

You have a good backup plan for yourself but the only hole is if your house burns down or someone breaks in and steals all of your stuff. Your backup is worthless in those situations.

People need to learn to accept and embrace the cloud. There is always a risk when you put your info in someone else's hands but the threat is small in relation to the amount of data that is transmitted every second. I don't want to start a hacker debate -- I know anything is vulnerable. To the average user cloud computing makes sense.
 
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13 1/2 days later I'm backed up. Thankfully I didn't notice any performance delays during the back up, it ran in the background and just chugged along. Hope I never need it though.
 
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