[AT] OT: Computer crash and data loss

[David Bruce]

Mike,

I do a bit of both.  Carbonite to back up my data drive and the my 
documents folder on the OS drive (never have switched it to the data 
drive) and also make a backup to a USB drive that I keep on site.  I 
have used the restore with Carbonite once and although a bit slow it 
worked flawlessly.  Most of what I store is photos of various things 
which I had been storing at Fotki until they quit allowing full sized 
copies.  Like you I decided I needed an off site backup.

David
NW NC



On 1/2/2014 6:36 PM, Mike wrote:
> Hi Dean, sorry about your hard drive, hopefully you can get some files
> off from it. I got burned like that a few years ago as well, sudden
> catastrophic failure caused me to lose tons of family photos and
> documents. Since that time I have used Carbonite for peace of mind. You
> don't have to remember to do anything, it just keeps backing things up
> in the background. Mozy also has a free service if you have mostly
> documents that don't take up a lot of GB. I like this method of offsite
> backup vs a backup drive for security reasons. If my house burns down,
> so would my backup drive.
>
> Mike