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Just to add another caveat to your list if the initial upload took 15 days, it will take that or longer to recover your data. I had a customer who used it and was out of commision for 2 weeks waiting to get his data back. Not saying it shouldn't be used but an extra back-up to a local device as well couldn't hurt.
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Hey Jake, thanks for the tip. So far I found that my download speeds (on limited files recoveries) were many times faster than when I wanted to upload, but I admittedly have only done this for a few files.
I figured this was just a function of the fact that my DSL download speeds are 10x my upload speeds, but I'll have to test it more thoroughly given what you wrote. Thanks for the heads up.
Jason
PS: I currently do backup locally as well, but had been thinking about going solely to online backup... More to consider.
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With the disk prices what they are, my online backups are for disaster recovery. All other files (for HDD failure) are duplicated on other disks. *IF* my condo burns down, then I'll access the online files. The way I see it, if my condo is not accessible, my online files are on the bottom of the list of things to worry about!
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Good point Hansang. Though losing all of my pictures/videos/music on top of losing my home would definitely pour salt in the wound. I agree with the idea of doing both in-home and online backups.
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For those interested - I ran a test this weekend to see what my recovery time would look like.
I have about 100GB online with Carbonite now and from the few tests I ran last night and today, it would take me about 7 days to fully recover it all to local disk after a disaster. It's not fast, but considering it's pictures/movies/etc., I'm willing to wait that long considering the low cost I pay for the service.
That wouldn't be nearly good enough for an enterprise solution, but fortunately that's not what I'm after here.
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