Shel, I didn't know trend was offering an online backup. No surprise though, it seems everyone is these days. I stick to recommending (and reselling) Mozy and Carbonite pretty much 100% -- They have by far the best prices (mozy in some situations, carbonite in others) for home and business of the reliable online backup companies, plus they have been around a long time and have a good track record. The key things to ask about when setting up a new backup, is what options they have for getting your files back (will they mail you a drive if you need rush recovery?) and how is their encryption handled (client side?) On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Shel Horowitz <shel at frugalfun.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > ** > 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. > > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > HTers, > > > > 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). > > > > Thanks for insights, > > Ed > > > > ================== > Edward J. Bride > Technology Public Relations > 413-442-7718 > Twitter: @EdwardBride > LinkedIn: Ed Bride > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > > > ** > > -- > > ** > > _________________________________________________ > Shel Horowitz - 413-586-2388/ shel at frugalfun.com > -->Join the Business Ethics Pledge - Ten Years to Change the World, > One Signature at a Time (please tell your friends) > <http://www.business-ethics-pledge.org> > Marketing consulting * copywriting * publishing assistance * speaking > How to market ethically/effectively: http://www. greenandprofitable.com > Blog on Green Marketing/Ethics/Politics: > http://greenandprofitable.com/shels-blog/ > Books: http://www.frugalmarketing.com/cart > _________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -- Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill Green Earth Computers www.greenearthpc.us kiernan at greenearthpc.us 413-282-TECH Follow Me: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/greenearthpc> [image: LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kiernangs> [image: Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/greenearthpc> Member: Business Networking International (BNI) Mill River Chapter: visit http://millriverbni.com PPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20120422/595dc607/attachment.html