Backing up isn’t hard to do
This is what NoiseNotNoise had to say:
Carbonite comes up trumps in all these categories, the storage is “unlimited” I guess they might have something to say if you start storing 100’s of gigabytes but my 70 odd gigabytes have been no problem. Backup speed is rather slow, about 4 gigs a day seems to be the limit regardless of the connections speed, but that’s plenty fast enough once you have completed the initial backup of your machine.
Restoring files is a synch, just open the control system preferences, chose Carbonite, pick a file and restore it to its original location, or a location of your choise. Carbonite is also pretty good at versioning, keeping daily, weekly and monthly backups.
So Carbonite is easy to use, but how safe is your data? Well Carbonite encrypts data with Blowfish encryption and if your super sensitive you chose to manage your own key – so Carbonite physically can’t access any of your files, although that does mean if you loose it you can’t recover your files!
