by on September 13, 2006 in Web/Tech

Carbonite Online Backup

Link: Carbonite Online Backup. Just found this via PC Doctor. I’ve been hoping to find this for a long time. I’ve 30+ GB of photos on my home machine. I do regular backups to a networked hard drive but have always wanted something in the cloud. Now I think I’ve found it. US$ 5/month, unlimited storage. This almost seems to good to be true.

I wonder if this implemented on top of the Amazon S3 cloud?

BTW I  no longer use Carbonite – instead I have a hard disk at a friends house and we just do incremental backups to that device.

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  • Terry

    You can also use a service like IBackup (http://www.ibackup.com) to manage all your favorite photos. IBackup is like an extra hard drive right on your computer and it allows you to store your important documents and files securely online. You can store your files and retrieve them from any computer no matter where you are. You can even stream audio and video content instantaneously.

    Securely store your photos and access them from anywhere. View them as thumbnails or as an animated slide show using Media Gallery feature. Media Gallery feature displays the images you have in your IBackup account. If you have GIF/JPG/TIFF images in a folder, Web-Manager automatically senses the presence of these images and displays the ‘Media Gallery’ option. You can click on the ‘Media Gallery’ option to view thumbnails of these images.

    You can also view all the images stored in a particular folder with the help of an automated slide show. You will find this useful for presentation of your business documents/ images. You can even share your photos with friends or family. IBackup lets you have direct control over access to the space, folders and the files. You have control over who can view, edit, save and upload folders and files stored in your IBackup account. Create sharable links with Web-Manager and email the links to others. You can also allow ‘private sharing’ of selected photos with other IBackup users.

  • eric fluger

    carbonite looks great for the budget concious, technically niave end user who has windows xp installed and modest backup requirements. that’s a lot of folks.

    the more sophisticated, those requirements may exceed carbonites limits, and those not running win xp, might do well to check out http://www.rsync.net.

    rsync.net offers platform neutral, standards based online backup with the option of having your backups replicated to multiple sites for further redundancy. pricing is on a per gig basis and significantly more expensive that carbonite. there seem to be few if any limits on how you use the space you rent.

    off hand, rsync.net strikes me as the anti-carbonite. strong in all the areas where carbonite is weak and not so strong in carbonite’s strongest area: price. (though i wonder if carbonite may wind up driving down the prices of all online backup services a bit. maybe the gap will narrow a bit?)

    btw: i don’t work for rsync.net or have any other connection with them.

  • eric fluger

    carbonite looks great for the budget concious, technically niave end user who has windows xp installed and modest backup requirements. that’s a lot of folks.

    the more sophisticated, those requirements may exceed carbonites limits, and those not running win xp, might do well to check out http://www.rsync.net.

    rsync.net offers platform neutral, standards based online backup with the option of having your backups replicated to multiple sites for further redundancy. pricing is on a per gig basis and significantly more expensive that carbonite. there seem to be few if any limits on how you use the space you rent.

    off hand, rsync.net strikes me as the anti-carbonite. strong in all the areas where carbonite is weak and not so strong in carbonite’s strongest area: price. (though i wonder if carbonite may wind up driving down the prices of all online backup services a bit. maybe the gap will narrow a bit?)

    btw: i don’t work for rsync.net or have any other connection with them.