I have a yearly subscription for Mozy and I use it to create an off-site
backup of my digital negatives and other key files. It does have the
drawback of taking a long time to upload (sometimes days at 1/mbs) but I
feel better having images stored off site. I also have a couple of local
backups, one on a RAID 1 drive so Mozy is really only likely to be used in a
rare circumstance.
That being said, even the best laid plans can mess you up. I've been using
some auto-sync software to keep my local backup drives in sync. Ultimately
Mozy gets data from one of my local drives. However, I made the mistake of
deleting some files that I didn't really mean to, and I didn't realize it
until a few weeks later. By that time, my file syncing had deleted the
files from the local drive, and Mozy had deleted them from their site and I
couldn't go back far enough on Mozy to find a backup where the files
existed. 200 digital images gone like that due to my stupidity. All I have
left are some thumbnails generated by Lightroom.
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, <NSURIT@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is anybody using Carbonite to back up their files? If so, is this a
> reasonable alternative to owning a bunch of external hard drives? $50 a
> year seems
> like a reasonable price. Bill Barber
>
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James Howe
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