Comments on: Carbonite - Online Backup For Your Files

By: Bill Simpson

Bill Simpson — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:21:46 +0000

Scott that comparison is inaccurate. Search around a bit on Carbonite.

You are not tied to a contract, you can backup any file you want. By default it will not do executables as most need to be installed to function properly but you can flag specific ones to back up anyway. 500MB per day transfer limitation is not accurate. I got my 22 gig backed up in about 4-5 days. It is Blowfish but it’s 1024 bit. I’m assuming that’s a newer version. There is basic monitoring and notifications. They have more than one facility with your data mirrored at more than one location so if they have a disaster you are still protected.

By: scott mischnick

scott mischnick — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:14:02 +0000

Look before you leap!

Online Backup Smackdown

Carbonite vs. SystemSafe

Here it is…

The Backup Smackdown! (click)

By: robclark

robclark — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:00:38 +0000

Hi Eric,
Thanks for the review of IBackup. I have to ask, though, how it may be a better alternative to Carbonite? IBackup is starting at double the price for only 5GB of space. I’m up to 17 gigs of backup right now, which IBackup would be charging me $500 a year … 10 times the cost of Carbonite.

With any online storage, security is an issue. Carbonite is utilizing Blowfish at 1024bit encryption. Any comment as to how that compares with IBackup’s 256bit AES encryption?

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:35:27 +0000

Nobody will want to see their computer up in flames or data in it irretrievably lost. The better alternative is to install an online backup application like IBackup and perform regular backups.

Nowadays, everybody from the lonely geek to SMBs have adopted IBackup as the stairway to data safety. Besides safe and efficient backups, IBackup high-level encryption for data even at the data centers ensures that the integrity of their user data is not compromised. IBackup comes with an extremely simple user-intuitive interface that makes it easy for novices to perform backups and restores. It also supports Unicode, provides an extremely convenient web-based interface for consumers and supports advanced client utilities to help manage consumer data.

Install IBackup for Windows to backup and restore all your important files and folders. You can backup and restore using the mirror and relative path options with the former allowing users to maintain the absolute path of the source file. Restoring data backed up in your online backup account is very easy. You can even restore from the Snapshots of files maintained in your IBackup account. You can consider Snapshots as something that allows you to retain changed data history for a period of time.

You can play your favorite audio or video files stored in your IBackup account using the Media Gallery feature in the browser-based application Web-Manager. Media Gallery displays all the video and audio files you have in your IBackup account. Clicking on the video/audio thumbnails will start playing the file using the media player. Securely store your photos and access them from anywhere. Then view them as thumbnails or as an animated slide show using the Media Gallery.
Share files by creating sharable links and emailing these links to your friends, colleagues and collaborators.

By: robclark

robclark — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:38:16 +0000

Thanks for the comment and link Jenny. Any personal recommendations or preferences in the world of online backup?

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 09:24:24 +0000

There is an excellent website for online backup information, news and articles. Check it out here:

http://www.BackupReview.info

This site lists more than 400 online backup companies and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.