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Words of Wisdom From Data Backup Specialists Carbonite

The hard truth of the matter is data loss can be a great blow to any individual or business, and add great insult to the injury of already suffering financial pressures in a trying economic climate. It’s a small price to pay to have your data securely backed up — as opposed to the incalculable cost of losing untold gigabytes of personal or business data which can often be irreplaceable.

Carbonite uses a combination of encryption techniques, similar to those used by banks, to safeguard your data. Files are encrypted twice before they leave your computer and remain encrypted on their servers, making it virtually impossible for anyone to access your files without your secret password. Users are also given the option to manage their own encryption key.

If your computer is compromised due to theft or crashing, recovery of lost files to a new computer can be done by visiting Carbonite’s website. Recovering small amounts of data (a few files here or there) will probably take only seconds or minutes. Restoring all of your data will take longer and depends on how much data you have and the speed of your Internet connection. Most DSL services will allow you to download about 600-800 MB per hour, or roughly 14-18GB per day. For an average user, complete data restoration is likely to take at most a day or two. Regardless, Carbonite makes data backup and retrieval a snap.

How it Works

Once a small Carbonite data backup program is set up on your computer, it requires little ongoing work on behalf of the user. It reads and stores your data as long as you’re online, and users can also log on to the Carbonite site and access their files.

The Carbonite client is from then on always searching for new data on your PC. When you add or modify files, Carbonite starts backing them up immediately. It backs up approximately 2GB per day over broadband. Carbonite’s backup solution works by placing colored dots on your files and folders. Different colors represent different “file states”: 1) If the file has been backed up, 2) will be backed up or 3) will not be backed up.

Pennies a day is a small price to pay for secure, guaranteed data protection.

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