Carbonite

Für Backups nicht zu gebrauchen

Vorteile:

Leider kann ich keine positiven Aspekte finden, da es für mich den Zweck nicht erfüllt.

Nachteile:

Nach fast drei Jahren Nutzung kam es nun zu einem Daten-GAU und ich musste ca. 1,5TB an Daten wiederherstellen. Zu meiner Überaschung läuft die Wiederherstellung nur mit ca. 2Mbit/s was natürlich viel zu langsam ist. Also habe ich mich für die Zusendung eines Backup-Mediens per Courier für knapp 100 USD entschieden. Nun kam aber die Überaschung. Carbonite versendet NUR an US-Bürger. Jegliche Postfächer können NICHT benutzt werden. Ich komme also nicht zeitnah an meine Daten. Es droht also der totale Datenverlust. Danke Carbonite !!!

Makes for very easy regualr backups

Kommentare: Very good. We trialled a few different options but this was the best one.

Vorteile:

Once it is set up properly you don't need to touch it again. If a problem occurs, it gives you a notification and is fixed easy.

Nachteile:

Indicating which files and folders to back up can be a pain. By default, it backs up heaps of things that don't need backing up.

Carbonite for personal or small business

Kommentare: Complete system restoration was a huge problem solver. Also real time continuous synched back up helped immensely for incidents such as accidental deletion.

Vorteile:

The product was easy to implement and configure. The best features were continuous synchronous backup, and backup with encryption. It also had a feature to back up the entire system that could be used to restorer after a hardware failure.

Nachteile:

The features were never a problem, however the pricing model changed significantly that made the prodcut unaffordable to my business and my clients.

Avoid like the plauge

Kommentare: The transfer speed is absurd and caused me a lot of embarrassment. I had a client have an 8tb array fail. This took over 2 weeks to completely recovery via carbonite. They have a 1gb/s fiber connection.

Vorteile:

There's not much. They market heavily, so customers recognize and trust the name, though I do believe that they shouldn't.

Nachteile:

The service portal is abysmal, slow, and barely functional. The customer support is terrible. Transfer speed is terrible and the app crashes frequently

Great for Baking Up Data

Kommentare: If Carbonite changed those two factors I mentioned as cons, I would feel way more confident recommending them to friends because I do like the affordable plan and how easy it is to backup files compared to competitors. And like I mentioned, I also like how they will back up your external hard drive which a competitor I was looking at does not do.

Vorteile:

As a backstory, I was talking to our tech advisor about our need for backing up our data. While I ensure that I back up my data through my external hard drive, I also know that my external hard drive can go kaput as all of them do eventually. So I mentioned to our tech guy that I feel like we need a cloud storage but I wasn't too fond of Dropbox or Google Drive. He had similar sentiments and recommended Carbonite. He said he uses it with a number of clients with good results. So I took the plunge with their Black Friday deal that included backup for my computer and external hardrive. Pros: I liked that it backed up all of my data itself and that I didn't have to do it manually. The only thing I need to do manually is for my future data and the process is SUPER simple even for the tech-challenged. I also liked that there was the mid-tier option (the one I chose) that backs up your external hard drive. You get unlimited storage for the tier I chose which is not true of Dropbox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, and others.

Nachteile:

I don't like that I can't easily access my data to see with my own eyes that my data is backed up which is very different than OneDrive, GoogleDrive, and Dropbox that I can pull up at any time my backup files. I can't tell how good Carbonite is at backing up the files until something goes wrong which makes me nervous. I don't like that if my external hard drive isn't connected for 30 days, the data is wiped out. What if I'm taking a break from my technology and don't have it hooked up? What if I'm using a different computer at the time because my original laptop and backup hard drive are getting repaired? That made me feel uneasy.