If your data are backed up offsite, you can recover it.Ĭarbonite offers unlimited storage for $49.95 a year. In an age when more parts of our lives are digitized, Carbonite pitches itself to consumers as a safer alternative to external hard drives and CD and DVD data discs, which can be lost or destroyed in a fire, flood or other natural disaster.

The start-up launched in 2006 and now has about 250,000 subscribers. 'We clearly had to change the way people back up their data,' says Friend, CEO of online backup service Carbonite. I would recommend Carbonite for anybody dealing with important documents on a computer that cannot lose the information.— - David Friend knew he was onto something when a computer crash wiped out his daughter's term paper and a friend lost precious baby pictures after her laptop was stolen. I was surprised because I thought it would affect the computer in a negative way. I never noticed any computer performance when running this software on a computer. It was about as simple as can be to retrieve the documents that were deleted and so nothing bad happened in result of this individuals actions. Carbonite really saved us when one of the disgruntled employees was trying to maliciously delete important documents and negatively hurt the company.

The plan did not have any data limits on the amount of data you can backup. You select what folders that carbonite will consistently backup, such as my documents or customer invoices folder etc.

It was easy to set up carbonite on all of the computer and synced the backup on changes that were made within the computer. It is better to be prepared than kick yourself later for not doing it. One of my worst fears in the world would be having a computer corrupt or damaged and not able to access the files. I have used Carbonite in the past when I was running a company with 10 employees.

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