Carbonite is software that backs up your documents and data to their servers. It does it in the background all of the time. The biggest advantage is that it happens without you thinking about it. It is off site. So if your computer hard disk dies or your house burns down, your documents and photos are still safe. Their new mirror feature allows you to connect an external USB drive to your computer and it will backup your data and documents to that drive as well as to their servers. This provides a local copy as well, which all experts will recommend. This also provides faster recovery. Carbonite will not backup applications or settings. All of these can be reinstalled in case of disaster. For faster recovery and convenience, disk image backups can be used. I use Image for Windows in addition to Carbonite to do this. It makes a bit by bit copy of everything on the disk; applications, settings, photos, data, and documents.
*Don Marang* Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org <http://www.vinuxproject.org/> On 3/29/2013 9:39 PM, Rich wrote: > Hi all, > I'm getting paranoid about a computer crash. > I was looking at "Carbonite" and saw some features as "back up" of files, > also a feature called "mirror image". > What is the difference? > My goal is to protect my information in case of a crash. > Is there a way to save every program, file, document, e mail? > In case of a crash or, if I want to transfer my entire set up to another > computer. > > What other options are there? > Ease of use is very important to me since I'm not too computer savvy > In addition, I should be putting things on an external hard drive, but I'm > not sure what information goes there. For example, can I back up all of the > programs that are in my program list? > Or, can I only back up documents and e mails? > > Thanks for all of the insight to my questions! > > Rich. > For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: > http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
