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| Registered: March 16, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 943 |
| | Posted: | | | | Has anyone heard of this? Has anyone used this? Click HERE. . I'm looking for a reliable backup system. I can't decide on if I should go local with harddrives or go remote with online | | | Just in from somewhere left of the middle of nowhere
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Heard of it...has been around for a while...never used it. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | I used it for a while but did not like the way it kept refreshing my windows explorer (in "details" view). Other than that it seemed to run quietly in the background without and trouble. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | If you want really fast backup & restore, external hard drives is the only real solution. But there's Cons to external drives in that if your house burns down, the drive is also lost with the computer unless if you keep multiple backups and keep at least one off-site. That's a big Pro for services like Carbonite in that the backup is always off-site.
Carbonite and like services require a Internet connection, the faster the better. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,372 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
But there's Cons to external drives in that if your house burns down, the drive is also lost with the computer unless if you keep multiple backups and keep at least one off-site. Unless you get one of these .  |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,203 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
Unless you get one of these . I want one of these...might have to talk my wife into one as she uses an online backup service...not sure which one though. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
- Citizen G'Kar |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
Unless you get one of these . Whoa, now that's cool as hell! When I wrote my previous comment, I was remembering a safe that provided the same kind of protection for devices but it was as large as a safe and pretty costly. *eyes upcoming bonus check* |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting lyonsden5: Quote:
Unless you get one of these . Great and affordable solution. The only negative thing I could find is that they only seem to have USB interfaces and no Ethernet. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | A USB interface would be fine for me. What I have now is an XP box with a ton of drives in it. I created a shared directory called "NAS" on it and I mounted each drive to a directory under it. All my storage located from one network share, not spread over multiple mapped drives. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | I use carbonite (and like the way I don't have to choose to do backups). Although it says it's unlimited - in practice when you reach 200 GB backed up then it becomes really slow.. so I have to delete some of the backups at that point..
Which I probably should do anyway..
It works in the background and has helped when I deleted (or changhed) files I shouldn't have since it keeps multiple versions of files.
I also do backups of data each night to separate ethernet drives - but the problem with these is if they were stolen or the house burnt down. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: August 23, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 1,656 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can't speak for carbonite, but if you do sign up, you can use the coupon code of either "opieandanthony" or "opie&anthony" (don't know which) and you can get two months free when you sign up for a year. | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
"I also refuse to document CLT results and I pay my bills to avoid going to court." - Sam, keeping it real, yo. |
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