Comments on: Review of Carbonite: Online PC Backup Made Easy

By: jimmiecone

jimmiecone — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:08:43 +0000

Carbonite is a wolf in sheeps clothing.
Carbonite took over a week to complete the first backup.
Settings are supposed to do backup in late hours of night.
Since installing, my system continuosly locks up, frezes and I have worn out the the typing on my reset button.
SEVERAL REQUESTS TO CARBONITE OVER A WEEK finally produced a NOTE TELLING ME I COULD PURCHASE SUPPORT.
Hope everyone else does not have the disappoing service with carbonite that I have experienced.

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Michael Reagan — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:28:12 +0000

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By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:25:32 +0000

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By: Teddy

Teddy — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:18:19 +0000

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By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 05:38:18 +0000

Hanford,

Thanks for the tip. You brought up some other issues I hadn’t originally thought of. It looks like we both agree that it’s the best thing available even if we want a couple tweaks available in the next revision.

By: Hanford

Hanford — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:59:02 +0000

Great review. I just reviewed Carbonite as well, and although I recommend it, there’s a few limitations to it that I think people who sign up for it should know about. Mainly regarding how Carbonite doesn’t cover certain data-loss scenarios like accidentally overwriting an existing file (and not discovering it for a while), and whatnot.

My review is on blog.hanfordlemoore.com.
http://blog.hanfordlemoore.com/2006/11/22/review-carbonite-online-backup