What is it?
Secure offsite backup.
How much does it cost?
From $54.95 for a year to $129.95 for three years’ subscription, all with unlimited storage.
Why did I buy it?
Yes, I also have SugarSync running on my machine, but that’s tiered by the amount of online storage you want, and it’s just too expensive for the space I need. Besides, I don’t need all my data to be synced.
Carbonite, on the other hand, lets you back up as much data to the company’s servers as you like – caveat: it doesn’t back up external disks – and I was delighted by how good a Mac citizen it is. (It was originally a Windows app, and still is; usually, however, when companies make a Mac version of a Windows app, it’s a kludge. Carbonite really seems to have got the Mac, though.)
It runs quietly in the background, completely transparently – though the daemon sometimes canes the CPU; it can be paused – and I like Carbonite over solutions such as the peer-to-peer option for CrashPlan because my data is being backed up not to a mate’s single, fallible hard disk, but to a proper redundant, managed server system.
And because it’s offsite backup, it doesn’t matter if my flat is comprehensively burgled or even razed to the ground; the most precious stuff, my data, is safe.
Where can you get it?
You can get a free 15-day trial for Windows and Mac at Carbonite’s site.
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