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Carbonite Backup

Last week my notebook's hard drive failed. All the data was lost. A couple of months before, I've subscribed to an online backup service, Carbonite. I was able to recover all the data I cared for, so that's why I'm recommending it.

Basically, you pay $5/month regardless the space you use.You select the folders you want to back up, and it backs them up silently when you connect to the internet. You can suspend the backup process if you need to use your bandwidth for something else.

Use this link to download a free 15-day trial subscription to Carbonite, and get an extra free month of service when you buy (and 3 months free for myself;) : http://www.carbonite.com/raf/signup.aspx?RAFUserUID=2508&a=0
Posted: Sep 28 2006, 01:59 AM by aaguiar | with 7 comment(s)

Comments

Thomas Jespersen said:

Great tool! I installed it Friday, and now my d-drive is backup up. And everything I made today is already backup. Fantastic.

However as a developer I have one shortcoming, because it does not backup up these files by default (you have to right click and select "Backup up this" file).

.bak;.log;.cab;.cf1;.chm;.com;.cpl;.dll;.dmp;.drv;.evt;.exe;.inf;.ico;.iso;.jar;.lex;.lib;.msi;.msm,.mst;.ocx;.old;.otf;.pnf;.pf;.prn;.reg;.rll;.swf;.sys;.ttf;.tmp;.vxd;.chq;.chw;.hlp;.hxi;.hxq,.hxr;.hxs;.abf;.afm;.bdf;.dfont;.eot;.fnt;.fon;.lwfn;.otf;.pfa;.pfb;.pfm;.suit;.ttc;.ttf;.ani;.ann,.bmk;.cab;.cnt;.cpl;.cur;.dev;.drv;.dvd;.ffa;.ffl;.ffo;.ffx;.ftg;.fts;.gid;.grp;.ico;.idx;.img,.inf;.ini;.ins;.ipf;.isp;.its;.kbd;.kext;.key;.msc;.msp;.nt;.plist;.pol;.pref;.prf;.pwl;.reg,.scf;.scr;.sdb;.swp;.sys;.theme;.vga;.vgd;.vxd;.com;.exe;.fxp;.jar;.jse;.mst;.obs;.prg;.rox;.shb,.tms;.vbe;.vbs;.wpk;.$$$;.$db;.113;.abk;.bac;.bak;.bck;.bcm;.bdb;.bkf;.bkp;.old;.rdb,.tmp;.win;.PCH;.SBR;.PDB;.OBJ;.BSC;.ILK;.NCB;.IDB,system/;dtSearch*;Intermediate*;VMWare*;Virtual PC*;Virtual Machine*,.v2i;.ost;.lnk

I got this list form the support. May I suggest you send a mail to Carbonite, with a wish for a feature, where this list is configurable?

Also they do not officially support Vista, but some users are running on Vista Beta 2, so maybe it works?

But Andreas... I guess you will get 3 months for me ;-)

/Thomas

# October 2, 2006 9:59 AM

Thomas Jespersen said:

Sorry my list was cut (I pasted from word). Or mayby it

Here is the list again:

.bak;.log;.cab;.cf1;.chm;.com;.cpl;.dll;.dmp;.drv;.evt;.exe;.inf;.ico;.iso;.jar;.lex;.lib;.msi;.msm,.mst;.ocx;.old;.otf;.pnf;.pf;.prn;.reg;.rll;.swf;.sys;.ttf;.tmp;.vxd;.chq;.chw;.hlp;.hxi;.hxq,.hxr;.hxs;.abf;.afm;.bdf;.dfont;.eot;.fnt;.fon;.lwfn;.otf;.pfa;.pfb;.pfm;.suit;.ttc;.ttf;.ani;.ann,.bmk;.cab;.cnt;.cpl;.cur;.dev;.drv;.dvd;.ffa;.ffl;.ffo;.ffx;.ftg;.fts;.gid;.grp;.ico;.idx;.img,.inf;.ini;.ins;.ipf;.isp;.its;.kbd;.kext;.key;.msc;.msp;.nt;.plist;.pol;.pref;.prf;.pwl;.reg,.scf;.scr;.sdb;.swp;.sys;.theme;.vga;.vgd;.vxd;.com;.exe;.fxp;.jar;.jse;.mst;.obs;.prg;.rox;.shb,.tms;.vbe;.vbs;.wpk;.$$$;.$db;.113;.abk;.bac;.bak;.bck;.bcm;.bdb;.bkf;.bkp;.old;.rdb,.tmp;.win;.PCH;.SBR;.PDB;.OBJ;.BSC;.ILK;.NCB;.IDB,system/;dtSearch*;Intermediate*;VMWare*;Virtual PC*;Virtual Machine*,.v2i;.ost;.lnk

# October 2, 2006 10:01 AM

aaguiar said:

Thanks Thomas!

I've also emailed them about the extension list. I actually had some .idx files, and I lost those. Fortunately, they were indexes that could easily be recovered.

# October 2, 2006 10:19 AM

Jono said:

On the other hand, if you do a Find on a folder with that entire list... you get a list of all the exceptions. Select-all, click backup now :)

I think that works, I haven't looked much more closely since I am still trying this service out too.. I'm a developer so I'm highly concerned myself.

# October 9, 2006 12:36 AM

Jono said:

On the other other hand... I want to backup a few files which live in the Windows directory... fonts, for instance. Damnit.

# October 9, 2006 12:38 AM

Mark said:

Carbonite does not backup flash .swf files ! It probably doesn't matter if you still have the matching .fla file and you can add the .swf file to (with right mouse button)

# November 11, 2006 3:55 PM

Mark said:

It's a problem to backup a subfolder (like Windows > Fonts) but if you add the fonts to a "stand alone folder" carbonite will backup it. I have add the Windows > Fonts folder to my SyncBack and it works great

# November 11, 2006 3:57 PM