Comments on: Online Backups http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:57:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Nick Starr.com - Nick Starr dot com » Time Machine - Offsite Solutions http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-49409 Nick Starr.com - Nick Starr dot com » Time Machine - Offsite Solutions Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:09:07 +0000 http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-49409 [...] The first thing I thought about when I saw Time Machine in Apple’s upcoming OS Leopard,was my posts about online backup solutions. I was reading Pete’s blog about a backup solution for a company he is working for, and started to think about a way to use Time Machine offsite again. [...] [...] The first thing I thought about when I saw Time Machine in Apple’s upcoming OS Leopard,was my posts about online backup solutions. I was reading Pete’s blog about a backup solution for a company he is working for, and started to think about a way to use Time Machine offsite again. [...]

]]> By: Hans Klein http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-24981 Hans Klein Thu, 06 Jul 2006 13:29:37 +0000 http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-24981 I tried Carbonite and so far I really like it. I bought a subscription and for the past month it's been working smoothly. I don't see why anyone with a terabyte of data would expect to be able to back up over a DSL or Cable, though (what the heck are you storing, 1000 hours of old TV shows?). All you have to do is look at the specs for your DSL service and you'll see that the upload speed is only 350-400 kbps. Divide by 8, and that's about 44 Kbytes per second. If you did nothing with your Internet connection other than backup you could get maybe 3 to 3.5 GB per day. But Carbonite says it stops working when you're using your PC for other things so that it doesn't slow down your PC, so if you do a normal amount of work on your PC during the day, you might get 2GB a day, which is about what I got -- it took about two weeks to do my initial backup of 35GB. I sent them an email about this 100GB thing that you reported and they said that they now have enough capacity so they don't have to impose any restrictions at all. They did say that the 2GB/day average capacity of DSL and Cable makes it not very practical to backups over 100GB, however, and they may still send out automated emails to people like you who show up with 500GB or more thinking they should be able to back this up over their DSL in any reasonable amount of time. Anway, how can you complain? Take a look at what 100GB would cost you from other online backup providers, if in fact you can find one that will sell you that much space. Hans. I tried Carbonite and so far I really like it. I bought a subscription and for the past month it’s been working smoothly. I don’t see why anyone with a terabyte of data would expect to be able to back up over a DSL or Cable, though (what the heck are you storing, 1000 hours of old TV shows?). All you have to do is look at the specs for your DSL service and you’ll see that the upload speed is only 350-400 kbps. Divide by 8, and that’s about 44 Kbytes per second. If you did nothing with your Internet connection other than backup you could get maybe 3 to 3.5 GB per day. But Carbonite says it stops working when you’re using your PC for other things so that it doesn’t slow down your PC, so if you do a normal amount of work on your PC during the day, you might get 2GB a day, which is about what I got — it took about two weeks to do my initial backup of 35GB. I sent them an email about this 100GB thing that you reported and they said that they now have enough capacity so they don’t have to impose any restrictions at all. They did say that the 2GB/day average capacity of DSL and Cable makes it not very practical to backups over 100GB, however, and they may still send out automated emails to people like you who show up with 500GB or more thinking they should be able to back this up over their DSL in any reasonable amount of time. Anway, how can you complain? Take a look at what 100GB would cost you from other online backup providers, if in fact you can find one that will sell you that much space.

Hans.

]]> By: Nick Starr.com - Nick Starr dot com » Carbonite: When unlimited is limited http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-22653 Nick Starr.com - Nick Starr dot com » Carbonite: When unlimited is limited Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:48:20 +0000 http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-22653 [...] I previously posted about Carbonite as a backup service that offers that I was a bit skeptical about, being as it would take over a month to backup everything on my multiple hard drives. [...] [...] I previously posted about Carbonite as a backup service that offers that I was a bit skeptical about, being as it would take over a month to backup everything on my multiple hard drives. [...]

]]> By: The Offsite Solution? at wujimon http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-15160 The Offsite Solution? at wujimon Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:18:21 +0000 http://www.nickstarr.com/2006/06/02/online-backups/#comment-15160 [...] Well, it’s been about 2 days or so now and Carbonite has only backed up about 12% of my data with an average upload speed of about 20 KB/s. After reading Nick Starr’s post on backup services, it appears that Carbonite (figured retrieved from FAQs): [...] [...] Well, it’s been about 2 days or so now and Carbonite has only backed up about 12% of my data with an average upload speed of about 20 KB/s. After reading Nick Starr’s post on backup services, it appears that Carbonite (figured retrieved from FAQs): [...]

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