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Many of you know that I am am a big fan of. In fact, I believe it is the most important thing you can do for your computer. If you're like most people, you have personal documents, photos, videos, and other on your that would be devastating to lose. I often say that my life is stored on my computer, which is hardly hyperbole. I have five different of my computer in three different locations. While that provides pretty decent data redundancy, all my backups are located within a few miles of each other. If some crazy storm ripped through my area or if my town was hit with some kind of EMP (electromagnetic pulse), I would lose all my backups at once.
While both situations are unlikely (especially the EMP), it still is not a risk I am willing to take. Therefore, a few weeks ago, I decided to try an online backup service. After browsing through several options, Carbonite was my top choice.
Carbonite made sense for me since it provides unlimited data backup for a low price ($59/year). I found that many of the other services offered limited data backups, such as 20 GB, 50 GB, or 100 GB. If you want to back up more data with these services, the monthly price quickly doubles or triples.
Photo cutter for mac. Since I needed to backup over 300 GB of data, Carbonite's unlimited plan for less than $60 a year was very appealing. I signed up for the trial and installed the Carbonite software. The Mac interface is a slick System Preference pane that provides the status of the backup, along with several useful controls. You can choose what to backup and what files to exclude. You can also restore files directly from the System Preference interface, which is pretty great. I was pleased with the Carbonite interface, as it was intuitive and did exactly what I wanted. However, as my initial backup progressed, I was not too pleased with was the backup speed.
While I have a 3 Mbps upstream connection through Comcast, my speed was maxing out at about 1 Mbps, which is about 10GB per day. It took over two weeks of leaving my computer on all day and all night to upload my initial 150GB of data. Once my initial backup completed, I selected another 170 GB of data to upload.
I was not too thrilled to find out the new batch of data was uploading at a maximum speed 256 Kbps, or 2 GB per day. A few days later, the upload speed slowed to 192 Kbps, or about 1 GB per day. At this rate, it would take over three months to upload my remaining 110 GB of data.
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Since my data changes on a daily basis and therefore has to be 'rebacked up' regularly, I soon realized my backup would never finish. I contacted Carbonite support via email, and the support representative told me that Carbonite was not throttling my data upload speed. I then called Carbonite and they confirmed that my backup speed was being throttled, even though it shouldn't be. I learned that Carbonite throttles users' backup speed after 200 GB of data has been backed up (which was not clearly posted on their website).