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

Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill greenearthcomputer at gmail.com
Sun Apr 22 18:13:47 EDT 2012


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:

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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a promised refund from Trend, which for
> unknown reasons stopped backing up three months after I installed it.
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> Moral: check your backups every once in a while.
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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,
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> Ed
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