Stan



Stan, thanx for responding in a positve way. I was not trying to be a PITA, I just have a problem with not having my backups within arms reach; I’m probably just to paranoid! I use Acronis for making HD images and it has come in handy on my wife’s computer. I reloaded everything back onto her HD in about 2 hours.

If I could ask one more question. What happens if a virus wipes out your OS or if your H D crashes. Do you have to reinstall windows to get your internet working? I am curious about Carbonite.

Thanx.



Carbonite uses the Cloud concept, but was using it before that term became popular. You can think of Carbonite as sort of an external hard drive. It's primary purpose is to backup your "data" files although you can tell it to specifically backup other types of files. It doesn't do mirror backups such as Acronis. I've used Acronis and it's a good program. If you have the big crash, you will still have to reinstall everything, but you won't lose your data files. Carbonite keeps your deleted files for 30 deys. I can understand why they don't do it for longer though. Before I started using it, I would do an Acronis backup and put the drive in our safe deposit box. I probably should still do a couple of times a year, but I've just gotten too lazy. Hoping I won't have to pay the piper again though.

Stan

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