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Originally Posted by HarryT
I have a NAS box, too (four drives in a RAID 5 array), but what do you do to back that up in the case of, say, fire or theft? That's what I use my external USB disks for, which are so easily kept off-site. With hundreds of GB of files, such as I have, it's unfortunately impractical to make backups over the internet (at least it is with my internet speeds).
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Harry,
The exact same backup that goes to my NAS box also goes to Carbonite. I see no sense -- for me, that is -- to do an image of my drives so that both programs and data are backed up. I do back up program preference files, however. I don't have hundreds of GBs to backup; more like 10s of GBs. And my Internet connection is fiber optic.
Besides, it is only the initial backup to Carbonite that takes time. On a daily basis I don't change GBs of data.