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Originally Posted by CyGuy
I could see using an off-site storage service for keeping a single backup image. In fact, you really would want to just create a few True Crypt containers with very long and complex passwords and put the image inside that. However, as far as using "cloud storage" for accessing a few files on the fly as part of the normal usage of a device, that it just crazy to me. Use an external HDD, USB thumb drive, or SDHC card. Maybe create a backup once a week or so, put it in a TC container, and send it to the cloud. But to rely on a network connection just to get to a file, that really just doesn't make sense to me...
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I agree. For me, Carbonite is a redundant backup in case I lose my computer and local backup. I can access it when on the road using my little netbook if I have to but, so far, haven't yet.
The problems with making a weekly back up and sending it to the cloud is, one, you have to remember to do it and, two, if your system goes belly up, you will lose everything since the last backup. Carbonite has my files backed up within an hour or less after they are created. Since it versions, it has saved my butt a couple of times when I screwed up a file and dumped the original before I realized it was screwed up. Mirroring is instantaneous but it also instaneously duplicates fatal mistakes.