Hopefully something like Apple's time machine would allow for old
enough copies to avoid situations like that. But at what size level of
files to be backed up does the thing become so slow as to unworkable?
With my mediocre 2Mb download and 256k upload it seems a daunting task
to upload my 670Gb of data on my backup drive. I make that 726 hours
to upload or about 30 days. And that's without any network slowdown.
Carbonyte's 15 day trial wouldn't be much use.
It's great news that the service exists though. I currently take my
1Tb backup hard drive with me when I leave home for any significant
time (it went for a nice two week holiday in Brittany this summer),
but I still need something off-site.
James
On 18 Sep 2008, at 21:14, James Howe wrote:
>
> I have a yearly subscription for Mozy and I use it to create an off-
> site
> backup of my digital negatives and other key files. It does have the
> drawback of taking a long time to upload (sometimes days at 1/mbs)
> but I
> feel better having images stored off site. I also have a couple of
> local
> backups, one on a RAID 1 drive so Mozy is really only likely to be
> used in a
> rare circumstance.
>
> That being said, even the best laid plans can mess you up. I've
> been using
> some auto-sync software to keep my local backup drives in sync.
> Ultimately
> Mozy gets data from one of my local drives. However, I made the
> mistake of
> deleting some files that I didn't really mean to, and I didn't
> realize it
> until a few weeks later. By that time, my file syncing had deleted
> the
> files from the local drive, and Mozy had deleted them from their
> site and I
> couldn't go back far enough on Mozy to find a backup where the files
> existed. 200 digital images gone like that due to my stupidity.
> All I have
> left are some thumbnails generated by Lightroom.
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Is anybody using Carbonite to back up their files? If so, is this a
>> reasonable alternative to owning a bunch of external hard drives?
>> $50 a
>> year seems
>> like a reasonable price. Bill Barber
>>
>
>
>
> --
> James Howe
>
>
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