"Carbonite cloud backup protects your computer-automatically"."Carbonite Safe provides automatic and continuous cloud backup for computer files"."Automatic, unlimited cloud backup for computers"."From family photos to customer data, automatically protect everything in the cloud"."Automatic cloud backup for your files, photos and more".The claim: Carbonite is easy, automatic backup for "everything" on your computer At first glance, Carbonite sounds very easy to use to back up your computer to their online server, especially when you read statements like the following on their web site: Note: As of this writing, CrashPlan has decided to focus on the small business, education, and enterprise markets, so all existing "CrashPlan for Home" subscriptions for consumer-level backup will end on October 23, 2018, with discounted conversion options to Carbonite or CrashPlan for Small Business. I have not investigated Carbonite's online backup competitors (Mozy, IDrive, Backblaze, Acronis Cloud Backup, etc.) to see how they compare regarding these issues.I have not yet explored these issues in depth on Macintosh, nor with multiple computers, nor their business version, but I imagine that they are similar. Most of my experience with Carbonite has been with the least-expensive, consumer-level service on single computers running Microsoft Windows.So, unless you (or someone you trust) spends the time to carefully review every data file and folder on your computer to see whether Carbonite is actually backing it up, you cannot be sure that it is doing your backup correctly.
This might exclude a number of very important files on your computer from your backup, including Microsoft Outlook email database files, as well as data stored by less-common programs, which could render those programs useless if you ever restore your data from Carbonite.
However, if you're currently using it (or if you are considering it for your backup needs), then you should know that it has the following potentially major problem: By default, Carbonite does not back up a number of less-common file types, nor many files stored in secondary folders, nor files larger than 4GB. It is very good at backing up common file types (documents, pictures, spreadsheets, etc.) stored in regular user folders (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, etc.).
The Problem with Carbonite, a Popular Online Backup Service Summary Carbonite is a very popular service that provides online ("cloud") computer backup with unlimited storage for an annual subscription fee. Practical Computer Advice from Martin Kadansky
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