Kirsten, Sounds like your considering Carbonite's service so I thought I would chime in here. I signed up for their free trial and was literally minutes away from paying for a subscription when I learned something key. Carbonite will not backup external drives. Only drives that are physically installed in your computer will be backed up. Like so many of us, we use external hard drives connected via USB either as backup drives or at least expanded storage.
For me, that was deal breaker and I chose a different service (in my case, it was backblaze.com) If the external drive issue is not a problem for you, I think Carbonite is otherwise a good service. To more directly address your question though, right now I store my Legacy DB on my DropBox account and then I include that drive/folder in the backup. Once I get things settled I plan to incorporate an external drive as another backup device and then I will backup that backup the offline backup site (which is unlimited storage). I used to use MozyPro like this but they recently changed their TOS so that it's not unlimited anymore. Hope that helps. Paul On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Kirsten Bowman <[email protected]> wrote: > Do any list members use Carbonite for backup? If so . . . > > Have you ever had to restore a Legacy database from Carbonite? Did it work > well? Do you use a medium in addition to Carbonite (CD, external hard > drive, etc.) or rely only on the service? > > Kirsten > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and > on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
