Carbonite

[skyhigh]

Anyone using it? Any problems? Have you ever had to retrieve information from the site?

We periodically (haphazardly) backup to an extermal hard drive. I will usually do one of a couple types of manual backups. One, I will copy my "documents" files (all artwork), and occasionally will do a "file settings & transfer wizard" copy, and save that also.

I know this has been covered a number of times in my last 8 years here, but with all the new technology these days......... and because I can, I started a new thread.



$60 a year is pretty cheap I figure. If it works one time (works perfectly that is), its worth thousands. IMO

 

[WildWestDesigns]

My mom uses and has for quite some time. She swears by it.

 

[signage]

I would recommend looking into Acronis! It will get you back up and working much faster than retrieving your information off the Internet! Even if you chose to use Carbonite and Acronis it would be fast than just regular backup and Carbonie!

ACRONIS!!!!

 

[WildWestDesigns]

I would recommend looking into Acronis! It will get you back up and working much faster than retrieving your information off the Internet! Even if you chose to use Carbonite and Acronis it would be fast than just regular backup and Carbonie!

ACRONIS!!!!

I am not a fan of Acronis. Sporadic ability to work for me. Past 2 months it hasn't backed up a thing and their tech support hasn't been able to help.

I've been looking into other options for that.

 

[signage]

I am not a fan of Acronis. Sporadic ability to work for me. Past 2 months it hasn't backed up a thing and their tech support hasn't been able to help.

I've been looking into other options for that.

I haven't had any problems with it since I sarted using it. What do you mean not backing things up? What version are you using?

 

[WildWestDesigns]

It acts as if it's creating a .tib file (which does lead to another concern of mine, but it could be just me with regard to that), but after it's done, there is nothing in there. It does the motions, everything has been confirmed, both on my end and on their tech support it that everything is setup correctly for what I'm attempting.

 

[particleman]

There are a lot of cloud backup providers out there. I use Crash plan, it is similar in features to carbonite (little cheaper I think). Personally I think everyone should have an offsite backup of some sort.

 

[TheSnowman]

I love my carbonite. It's pretty sweet, you never have to tell it anything, and you never know it's running. It was nice when I bought a new PC to just set it up on a Friday, let it re-download everything from the last 8 years, and be off and running when I got in on Monday.

 

[SignManiac]

I am not a fan of Acronis. Sporadic ability to work for me. Past 2 months it hasn't backed up a thing and their tech support hasn't been able to help.

I've been looking into other options for that.

Ditto on Acronis not being reliable. I gave up on it.

 

[Mike F]

There are a lot of cloud backup providers out there. I use Crash plan, it is similar in features to carbonite (little cheaper I think). Personally I think everyone should have an offsite backup of some sort.

I use Crashplan as well, and +1 on that last sentence.

 

[CanuckSigns]

we use carbonite, it's great!

it backs up automatically as soon as the file is saved to our server, plus i can access any file on our server from home which is very nice.

i also believe it saves previous versions of files for a month or 2 as well, which may be handy if you overwrote a file with a new version and the customer decides they want the original design.

 

[jfiscus]

A customer of ours invented GorillaBackups.com. They have been a data recovery company for many years, and found that the current solutions offered were lacking for their customers. It is a smaller company, so if you ever need tech support; you're talking to one of the owners, not an overseas call center. They support our company here, and have always been great to work with.

 

[Vital Designs]

I use sugarsync. I sync to a NAS and use it is a local working drive in the shop. The problem with continuous cloud backup is depending on our file activity it bogs down our bandwidth. Our ISP is not the most robust though.

Sugarsync is a one of the better cloud backup services along with dropbox.

 

[Joe Diaz]

We use Carbonite. Saved our #@%! We had hard drives set up on RAID One drive went bad, then the other. We lost over 700GB of art files, luckily it was all backed up. They sent us a 1TB external drive (a real nice one too) with all our artwork saved and ready to go. With our internet connection it would have taken forever to download it all.

 

[Mike Paul]

I backup to Carbonite and also to a couple of removable hard drives.
Having a copy your files away from the shop is key in case of theft or fire...
For $60 a year it's well worth it.

 

[CanuckSigns]

in case of theft or fire...
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Ask me how I know.....