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Originally Posted by cpenner
That's one of the ideas I thought about. Essentially keeping one Master library and rsyncing it around the network. The big downside to this is that most of the client machines are laptops and are not usually "on" at scheduled times. I could have them sync just before launching Calibre, but that is a "hassle" step that will get the technology looked down on as "cludgy".
But most importantly - where did you get Carbonite Pro for $55 a year!
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Methinks Mr. Mugford is talking about regular Carbonite. Pro is a business application that use tier pricing based on the amount of data stored. It starts at $10/mo/10GB and skyrockets from there. The regular Carbonite is $55/year for unlimited storage. Unlike the Pro version, it will backup only one computer and only drives within that computer. It will not backup servers nor external drives. I'm guessing it is also slower than the Pro version.
I also use Carbonite. It only backs up data files so it cannot be used to restore a computer like an image can but one can keep program installation files in a folder (you have to manually instruct Carbonite to back up program installation files) and use those to restore progams if necessary to restore your computer because your local backup went south. Despite these restrictions, Carbonite (Mozy is similar at $60/year) is still the best thing I've found for a reasonable price that will make near instantaneous, off site back ups of your data with limited versioning.