David Esp Video Technical Blog

Carbonite was drawn to my attention by a colleague, Mr. True, while we were discussing cloud-based services.

So here I just web-trawled a little. From that, it sounds like:

• One must be wary of the “small print” about throttling.
  • Then again could anyone reasonably expect massive video file type storage for such a low price?
• One alternative is Mozy
  • Some people find this better in terms of bandwidth,  service level and applications quality
  • It has apps for both iphone and android.

http://www.carbonite.co.uk/company

• Carbonite automatically backs up new and changed files. You don’t have to do anything
• One of Carbonite’s key advantages is offering unlimited backup for one fixed price
  • e.g. £41.95 / Year
• PC & Mac
• Carbonite for iPhone allows you to browse and share files from your iPhone.
• Carbonite uses the same technology as banks to encrypt your data making it completely secure so only you can ever see it.
• We have our own data centers where the the disk arrays are far more reliable than your computer’s hard drive.
• Limitations?
  • “Bandwidth throttling – Yes (35GB, 200GB)” (?)
  • “Default max file size” (?)

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22910253-Rant-Carbonite-Backup-is-not-unlimited-as-they-claim

• 2009-08-23, thedragonmas:
  • I have used both Carbonite and MOZY. I had Carbonite for 2+ years, worked as advertised, had over 450 gigs backed up no problem, always maxed out my connection. However, problem came from their client, which is a buggy piece of shit.
  • Switched to mozy, managed to re-back up all 450 gigs in 2 months using my Sprint EVDO Cellular (I get awesome speeds on my data card!).
  • Real problem with Carbonite is, when you select to backup “Everything” it in fact, does NOT backup everything. Such as video files, files over a certain gig size and what not, which will then need to be done manually.
    With MOZY, when I told it to backup EVERYTHING, it DID BACKUP EVERYTHING!
  • I am now a happy MOZY Customer. I am now pushing over 1tb of backed up data.
  • Only problem I have now, is if I need to restore my data, you get 30 days to restore your data before it is removed from their servers, and my present internet connection, that is not possible
•  2009-09-11, Kramer:
  •  I was uploading about 5GB/day for the first 50GB or so and then was throttled back significantly after that.

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