I've not had to use it personally must confess, however, the interface is 
available via the site and they do have telephone tech support that Drop Box 
does not.



Regards,

Neil Barnfather

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On 11 Sep 2014, at 15:19, Phil Halton <[email protected]> wrote:

> Neil, please tell us how accessible the Carbonite website interface is in 
> terms of versioning. I am currently using dropbox and their versioning is 
> difficult at best. I would consider switching to Carbonite if it is a better 
> user experience. Thanks for anything you can tell us.
> 
> Sent from my IPhone
> 
> 
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 9:55 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
>> I like these, however, you've missed cloud solutions such as Carbonite, who 
>> I especially like. They are fully automated, need no baby sitting, and, are 
>> both off site and continuous.
>> 
>> Carbonite also allows for versioning, so if like me, once upon a time you 
>> saved over the top of hours worth of work, no problem, Carbonite keeps 
>> versions of all files you create for up to, I believe three months.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Neil Barnfather
>> 
>> Talks List Administrator
>> Twitter @neilbarnfather
>> 
>> TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple 
>> iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your
>> accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com
>> 
>> URL: - www.talknav.com
>> e-mail: - [email protected]
>> Phone: - +44  844 999 4199
>> 
>> On 11 Sep 2014, at 14:49, Kayaker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Here is a basic strategy with increasing levels of commitment to your time.
>>> 
>>> 1. The Absolute Barest of Barest
>>> Purchase an external drive that matches the capacity of your internal drive 
>>> and use either Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to perform a complete 
>>> clone of the drive, making it a bootable volume. If you do this weekly, 
>>> you'll never lose more than a weeks worth of work.
>>> 
>>> 2. A reasonable Method
>>> Use plan 1 and add a time machine backup. Either a time capsule, or another 
>>> attached drive. If you have a laptop, the time capsule is a nice solution 
>>> since you do not need to physically attach the drive. This gives you 
>>> archive abilities and reduces the potential loss down to an hour's worth of 
>>> work.
>>> 
>>> 3. A Basic Plan
>>> Use Plan 2 and add a second backup drive to your plan 1 rotation. In other 
>>> words, have two drives that you use for making a clone and use the first 
>>> drive on odd number weeks and the second on even numbered weeks. Keep one 
>>> of those drives in a different physical location. Thus helping you in case 
>>> of meteor strikes or a black hole opening up in your house.
>>> 
>>> Time machine is fantastic, but it's not enough. I've seen too many time 
>>> machine backups fail when it's been needed after a disaster. That is why I 
>>> think it is critical to have a cloned bootable drive of your main system. 
>>> What is nice about using an app like carbon copy cloner, is that after 
>>> making the backup, it will tell you if there are files that it had trouble 
>>> reading. This is a great indicator of the health of your data.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> --k
>>> Faith doesn't give you the answers, it merely stops you from asking the 
>>> questions.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 10, 2014, at 5:46 PM, The Believer <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>>  Can I get a basic strategy to use for backups? I will use a USB 3.0 
>>>> 500gig external drive. After I start doing this, I will get closer to 
>>>> upgrading to Mavericks. I created the bootable USB drive for that today.
>>>> 
>>>>  I do not plan on cloud backups at least not for a while. Thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> From The Believer. . .
>>>> . . . what if it were true?
>>>> [email protected]
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