Carbonite Online Backup
Online storage from the big guys is proliferating. First out the gate is AOL's Xdrvie with 5GB of free space, with Microsoft's Live Drive and Google's GDrive supposedly close behind. I keep a list of them. Then I read about Carbonite on TechCrunch: an online backup service with unlimited storage for US$5 a month.
I have always been paranoid with backups, as would most longtime computer users. After having disk after disk going dead at regular intervals, I know better than to think my data is safe in my computer. So at each midnight ChronoSync kicks in to move stuff on my PowerBook to an external drive. But that's not good enough; only several months ago another of my external died. It was barely a year old.
Carbonite is what I need to finally put a stop to the paranoia. With it I can make a third backup offsite, so even in the worst scenario where my PowerBook and external die simultaneously, I still have a backup online. It wasn't an option before, because online storage offered so little for so much. But at $5 with unlimited capacity, it's the safest solution anyone can afford.
Alas, the Carbonite backup software is only available for Windows, but I wrote to the company and received two replies assuring me a Mac version is in the works, and should be ready by the beginning of next year. They even encouraged me to be a beta tester.
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