[Hidden-tech] Backup: Memeo vs. Carbonite ?

[Shel Horowitz]

I just switched to Carbonite after a failure with Trend Micro. My 
feeling is having at least one backup on the cloud and not only on 
your own hard drives makes sense (think Katrina).

I was appalled at how long the initial backup took (six weeks to do 
about 60 GB!)--but in fairness, the backup speeded up considerably 
after reinstalling when another program crashed it, and I think the 
first install may have been defective. The first 10 GB took longer 
than the next 50.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a promised refund from Trend, which 
for unknown reasons stopped backing up three months after I installed 
it.

Moral: check your backups every once in a while.

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>HTers,
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>After installing a new external hard drive that came with Memeo 
>backup software, my system performance seems to have degraded, and I 
>wonder if Memeo is the culprit. I already use Carbonite, and wonder 
>if the redundancy is worth anything. What are your experiences? That 
>is, is the off-site backup using Carbonite's approach more 
>performance-friendly than Memeo? Or, might Memeo have some other 
>benefits? I don't mind the trivial amount I'm paying for the 
>Carbonite subscription. Right now, to keep things simple, I'm 
>limiting this evaluation to on-system (Memo) vs. off-site 
>(Carbonite).
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>Thanks for insights,
>Ed
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