Carbonite Online Backup review

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One good alternative is http://www.stocklii.com/en. You can create a virtual drive which is backuping your data online. You can also use FTP or a pretty web interface to store your data online. Furthermore, you can create unlimited user and the transfert is unlimited either. Its a really good service, you should take a look

By marcus2010 on 13 Aug 2010

All good if you have SMALL amount for back

Quick Note from Experience: if you have more than 35GB of data to backup do a google search on backup throttling carbonite and read the terms on backup / upload speed. I have 135GB and the first 20gb was nice and fast so I went ahead and purchased a full license, only to find when I crept over the 30gb some good 2 weeks later did it then slow dowm to around 100kbps yes your reading that right, its around 3-4GB a day.
Now they say on the terms over 35-200gb "upload speeds can reach up to 512 kbps" and in reality its really throttled back to the 200GB mark as they confirmed 3-4GB per day. I have had the tech support people also check remotely my machine about 4-5 times now and the answer is always we will escalate this to the "Next Level" of support. Well its now been just under 6 weeks and my machine has been on 24x7 with reboots at time to reach 112gb, so another 3 weeks till I get the 135gb online, but that does not include any of my personal videos, that will take another estimated 2 month online backup with machine on..?? so trying to work out is 3 months of powering my Q6600 machine worth all the trouble ? (I backup to remote NAS , but its located on the same site)

It is good for say your mum or dad, long as they place the files in the folder you selected for backup , but for anyone serious with lots of DATA, I would say be prepared to keep machine on for whats looks like weeks at a time.... Here is a snipet of files - dates - GB ....(I have been tracking this from JAN when 1st installed till today the 19th Feb 2012...

Time Date Files GB
19:00 13/02/2012 55238 95.8
21:39 14/02/2012 56938 98.6
09:25 16/02/2012 59028 102
19:00 16/02/2012 59598 104
09:00 17/02/2012 60394 106

By Uotinam on 19 Feb 2012