Comments on: Carbonite – Offsite Backup Review

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:23:53 +0000

I recently had some issues with Carbonite – All sorted now, but here’s the full story:

https://www.alananna.co.uk/blog/2011/carbonite-backup-issues-check-your-back-ups/

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:48:31 +0000

I’ve just noticed that my Carbonite Backup is now up to 100GB.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:55:23 +0000

Yeeeeeaaahhh! My offsite backup has finally finished uploading – All 51.51GB of it and it only took about 6 weeks!

Wonder if I should now add my music and movie file to it!

Al.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:20:36 +0000

6 weeks after I started using Carbonite and all seems to be OK. After my initial backup of 8GB I added my photos to the queue which took the total up to just over 50GB. Despite running 24 hours a day, my slow internet connection means that it still hasn’t quite finished the upload and still has 3GB to go… It should finish this week though.

I’ve tried a few tests at restoring specific files and they seem to be there and the download works well. I’ve even connected remotely to my Carbonite account from another computer and accessed a file that way and that worked well too. This could actually be quite useful for retrieving information that I need whilst away from my computer.

I’ve yet to find a work-around for backing up my websites stored within the apache directory, but I guess the fact that most of them are on the web anyway means that they are in effect backed up in the cloud somewhere anyway. The other option may be to create a duplicate folder on my hard drive in a location that Carbonite can backup and then set up a folder action or automator script to keep the two folders synched… I may look into that.

It is nice knowing that I have at least 4 copies of everything though. One on my interbal hard drive, one on my Daily Clone on an extenral drive and one on my monthly clone on an external drive and one offsite in the cloud… Oh, and my Time Machine backup, so make that 5 copies of everything!

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:46:09 +0000

Just had a reply to my support question regarding the backing up of files outside of my Users directory and had the following reply:

We apologize but the location that you are trying to backup is treated as an excluded location by Carbonite. The only location that you can select for backup inside the “Library” folder is the one that has your username.

Looks as though I’ll have to fins another solution.

Al.